THE CALVIN PORTRAIT 
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work is finished, but shall abide long as men live who love their heritage 
of time; may the work of our artist long endure! 
In other worlds and centuries a people, reputed still the wisest, wittiest 
of earth, not only discovered that ‘art is long’ but likewise also seemed 
to know that only the skill of the artist does in somie mysterious way 
avail to transmit the soul of things, the thing called inspiration to future 
days and centuries. So they took care of art. They saw to it that men 
in after times should see what form had Pericles and Plato. Blind Homer 
nor less Socrates found memorial in marble, if reports are true. Not 
all were equal to their greatest, but under their greatest every Greek 
could claim, did claim, and flush with pride that thrills even to this day. 
Sometime, perhaps! when the social life and institutions of this com- 
monwealth of ours shall have become from river to river more homogene- 
ous, shall crystallize as such things do, when the migration of people 
shall cease, — sometime this our people shall perhaps appreciate their 
own, sometime mayhap a ‘temple of fame’ shall rise. Shall it be some 
vast physical structure with marble columns shining, shall it be some 
noble masterpiece of letters, than brass or marble more enduring, lit by 
the light of intellect, by passing centuries unworn, undimmed? What- 
ever, whenever, or wherever the memorial rise, of this let us be sure, — 
upon it the name of our colleague shall appear, among the first have 
place, and all other commonwealths may rival us if they can ! 
Nay, my colleagues, there shall still remain, for all whose names in 
honor shine, memorial nobler, more enduring far. The State, the State 
itself a living thing, into its fibre have passed the lives of all who thus 
at the beginning toiled to make it great! The State, sane, noble, intelli- 
gent, immortal as we hope, shall inevitably bear in its every character 
the thought, the purpose high of these its founders, memorial long- 
lasting as the course of time. „ tt Tir 
. Thomas H. Macbride. 
ADDRESS OF DOCTOR PAMMEL ON BEHALF OF 
THE COMMITTEE 
Mr. President: 
Your committee begs leave to make the following report on the Calvin 
Portrait, At the quarter centennial meeting of the Iowa Academy of 
Science held in the art room of the Historical Building in Des Moines, 
April 26 and 27, 1912, a committee was appointed to arrange for a 
portrait of Doctor Calvin to be presented to the Academy and hung in 
the art room of the State Historical Department. This committee con- 
sisted of Dr. Thomas H. Macbride of the State University, Professor 
M. F. Arey of the State Teachers College, and Professor L. H. Pammel 
of Iowa State College. The following letter from the secretary of the 
Academy explains the scope of the committee. 
A motion was passed that a committee be appointed with power to 
act, to see that provision be made for the placing of a portrait of 
Samuel Calvin in the Historical Building. Doctor Macbride, Pro- 
fessor Arey and Doctor Pammel were appointed on this committee. 
After a preliminary meeting of the comimittee it was left to Doctor 
Macbride to arrange for the painting of the portrait. Doctor Macbride 
arranged to have Professor Cumming paint the portrait under his di- 
