932 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
during that long term will live longer than I dare to mention. 
Every pupil felt his influence and greatly to the benefit of each 
boy and girl, young woman and young man. 
There was nothing superficial in his work; there was an 
earnestness, a devotion to dfuty, a desire to' bring substantial 
and lasting results that ought to be witnessed in every one who 
adopts that high calling. It was superb. Hundreds of high 
type men and women, people of broadened minds, patriotic 
people, educated people, genuine lovers of their country, give 
this fallen soldier credit for what they are. I Mr. Zimmerman 
was one of the earliest of Milwaukee principals to introduce 
the custom of patriotic services in the public schools. He not 
only held interesting services on the Friday before Memorial 
day, but had them on Washington’s birthday, Lincoln’s birth¬ 
day, and on other occasions. He realized that the surest way 
to make good American citizens was to fill the hearts of the 
boys and girls with love for the country and the country’s 
beautiful emblem. 
The value of such a teacher as Mr. Zimmerman proved him¬ 
self to be cannot be overestimated. The loss of such a teacher 
cannot be overestimated. There may be no towering 
monument at his grave, but he builded a monument a thou¬ 
sand times more telling than marble could make, in the build¬ 
ing of character, as a real teacher and a genuine educator. 
He never ceased to be a student. There were few if any 
better read men in the city. He had a ready reading knowledge 
of four languages, and books formed one of the great interests 
of his life. He could not resist the desire to own many and 
good books, and his private library furnishes splendid testi¬ 
mony to the wide range of his interests and to his discriminat¬ 
ing taste. For a number of years previous to his death he had 
taken correspondence courses under the direction of the Illinois 
Wesleyan university. He had earned in this way the de¬ 
gree of A. M., and in a short time would have completed the 
work required for the Ph. D. degree. There was no official 
position in Wisconsin, outside of the judiciary, which he 
would not have graced. He was modest, retiring, gentle, lov- 
