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conduct. When after a time I came to see more clearly his 
qualities of mind, I became convinced that he had an element of 
understanding and faithfulness which would enable him to do 
difficult deeds, and do them thoroughly well. So convinced was 
I of this that I deliberately selected him out of a great many to 
discuss with me a certain work which I had endeavored to ad- 
vance, but which had advanced so slowly that it was clear the 
end of my days would come before its accomplishment. It may 
not have been an important task, but it seemed to me to be so, 
and in my discussion with him as to the way in which it should 
be done, I was struck with his capacity for inquiry in a 
difficult field, his power of going on with a task : the last talk I 
had with him was to the point that, after he had affirmed his place 
here and had made his voice heard, he should undertake this 
work with me. When he passed from us I felt a sense of 
personal loss, as I had felt it in few cases before, though it has 
been my fortune in the years of my teaching to lose many of my 
young friends just at the time when their promise seemed to be 
at the verge of fulfilment. 
I gladly, Mr. President, put his record with those of the other 
men whom we commemorate this evening. I like to see his 
young life with all its promise set against that of the men who 
have done much. We were indeed rich a year ago that we could 
lose three such men, one a man rich in honors and in years; 
another in the fulness of his strength who was capable of break- 
ing paths in more than one way, and who broke them well ; and 
this youth who filled us with happy expectations. It seems to 
me, Mr. President, that we are still rich. We have the memo- 
ries of these men to treasure, and among them I shall myself 
keep as first of the three that of Mr. Dexter because he was 
nearer to me than the others. 
The President. I now present to you Professor C. S. Minot 
of the Harvard Medical School. 
REMARKS OF PROFESSOR C. S. MINOT.- 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen ; Mr. Samuel Dexter 
graduated a little more than a year ago from Harvard College, 
and came to me as a student intending to devote his entire life to 
