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me while he was my student, and which have served to deepen 
my sense of the loss which the Society has sustained. Whatever 
interested young Dexter absorbed all his attention. If a subject 
succeeded in engaging his attention, he concentrated all his 
energies in that direction, and he was proof against fatigue. 
Now, amid the perplexities and in the hard work of the office of 
the Secretary of our Society this is one of the features of charac- 
ter imperatively needed. 
In the elective which Dexter pursued with me, each student is 
required to present to his fellow-students some account of the 
work which he is doing, for we hold that no one can know a 
thing very thoroughly until he has told it in some way or at some 
time to some one else. Now, it was noticed by all of Dexter’s 
fellow-students that whenever he presented a matter in reporting 
upon his own work, he always presented it clearly, but more than 
this, he always interested his fellow-pupils in what interested him. 
At this critical period in the history of our Society, when we are 
endeavoring to enlarge the usefulness of our organization, it 
seems to me that Dexter possessed just those qualities which 
we most need in our officers. His contagious enthusiasm would 
have done much towards enlisting in the cause of the Society the 
aid which it seeks. 
I shall now present to you two of his teachers, one who gave 
him instruction in his college course, and the other under whose 
instruction lie was to pursue his graduate work. I have the pleasure 
of presenting to you Professor Shaler. 
REMARKS OF PROFESSOR N. S. SHALER. 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen ; It gives me a very 
great pleasure to bear my share of tribute to Mr. Dexter. I 
knew him as a student in college, and I loved him dearly. We 
were intimately associated during a good part of his college 
course. I came to know much of his beautiful qualities. He 
had, in the first place, it seemed to me, in a very conspicuous 
degree those characteristics which come from a good ancestry. 
He had a clear, intelligent sense of human relations. The 
teacher who has taught long and who is sensitive in such 
matters very quickly feels whether a person brings a sense of 
what these relations should be, and I always felt with Mr. 
Dexter a sense of safety and assurance in all that regarded his 
