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 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 
 
 A Memorial Discourse 
 
 LIFE AND SERVICES 
 
 HENEY SDIMONS IRIEZE, LL 1). 
 
 PROFESSOR OP THE LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 
 I\ THE UNIVERSITY PR03I 1854. TO 1889. 
 
 Delivered in University Hall by request of the Senate, 
 March 16, 1 890, by 
 
 JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. I). 
 
 PRESIDENT OP THE UNIVERSITY.
 
 UNIVEESITY OF MICHIGAN. 
 
 A Memorial Discourse 
 
 LIFE AND SERVICES 
 
 HENRY SIMMONS FRIEZE, LL. D. 
 
 PROFESSOR OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 
 IN THE UNIVERSITY FROM 1854 TO 1889. 
 
 Delivered in University Hall by request of the Senate, 
 March 16, 1890, by 
 
 JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D. 
 
 PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY. 
 1890. 
 
 Lj
 
 REGISTER PUBLISHING CO., ANN ARBOR, MICH.
 
 PROCEEDINGS 
 
 ON THE DEATH OF 
 
 HENRY SIMMONS FRIEZE, LL. D. 
 
 ACTION OF THE UNIVERSITY SENATE. 
 
 At a meeting of the University Senate, held Decem- 
 ber 7, 1889, the following memorandum, relative to the 
 death of Professor Henry S. Frieze, was ordered to be 
 recorded in the minutes: 
 
 In the death of Professor Frieze, who passed into eternal rest this 
 morning, the Senate is called to mourn the loss of one who for a long 
 period of years has rendered the University conspicuous and inestimable 
 service. In view of this event the Senate desires to spread upon its rec- 
 ords the following minute as an expression of its sense of bereavement 
 and as a tribute to the memory of one of its most distinguished and 
 beloved members. 
 
 Henry Simmons Frieze was born in Boston, Massachusetts, Septem- 
 ber 15, 1817, and died in Ann Arbor, Michigan, December 7, 1889, in his 
 seventy-third year. 
 
 In his early youth his family removed to Rhode Island, where they 
 continued to reside. He was prepared for college in a private school at 
 Newport, and entered Brown University at the age of twenty. He pur- 
 sued the regular course of study, and was graduated at the head of his 
 class in 1841. He was immediately called to a tutorship in the Univer- 
 sity, which position he held for three years. He then became one of the 
 proprietors and principals of the University Grammar School, and con- 
 tinued in that work till 1854. In that year he accepted the Professor- 
 ship of Latin in the University of Michigan, then under the Presidency 
 of Dr. Tappan, and held that position uninterruptedly for thirty-five 
 years. During that period he also discharged the duties of Acting Pres- 
 ident at two different times first for two years, from 1869 to 1871, after 
 the resignation of President Haven, and again for nearly two years in 
 1880-81, while President Angell was absent as Minister to China.
 
 During his connection with the University he twice visited Europe 
 on leave of absence first for a single year in 1855-6, and again for two 
 years at the close of his Acting-Presidency in 1871. On the occasion of 
 the first of these visits, he was commissioned to purchase for the Uni- 
 versity casts and pictures for illustrating classical antiquities and art; 
 and from that time dates the foundation of our Art Museum, which he 
 fostered and cared for so assiduously during all the remaining years of 
 his life. 
 
 To few men has it been given to serve the University in so many 
 varied ways and to be the originator of so many of the ideas and plans 
 that have shaped its life and character. He brought to his work a broad 
 and fertile mind, and a rare sense of the fitness of things by which he 
 could discern the right time for doing the right thing. The success of 
 many innovations and changes in the established order of study and dis- 
 cipline is largely due to his wise and gentle guidance. To the first 
 period of his Acting-Presidency are to be credited the admission of 
 women to all Departments of the University, the institution of the 
 diploma system, by which graduates of approved high schools are admit- 
 ted without further examination, and the beginning of large appropria- 
 tions to the University by the State Legislature. He had an important 
 share in the introduction of the elective system which has done so much 
 during the past ten years to transform the University. To him also is 
 chiefly due the introduction of musical studies, and the promotion of 
 these studies in the University and the community at large. He was 
 greatly interested in the development of post-graduate courses of study, 
 and was untiring in his eiforts to raise the University to the highest 
 level of broad and liberal scholarship. 
 
 The publication of his edition of Vergil in 1860, and of Quintilian in 
 1867, has made his name widely and honorably known for exact schol- 
 arship and for fineness of judgment and literary taste. These works 
 both underwent important revision and enlargement during the later 
 years of his life. In 1886 was published in London his charming sketch 
 of the Italian sculptor, Giovanni Dupr^, which has passed through two 
 editions, and has received high commendation from eminent critics in 
 both England and America. In addition to these writings there is a 
 large number of addresses and papers scattered through various period- 
 icals and the publications of the University. Specially worthy of note 
 are his Memorial Address on Dr. Tappan, his Semi-Centennial Address, 
 and his Reports as Acting-President, which may well rank among the 
 most suggestive and valuable contributions to the problems of higher 
 education that have emanated from the executive office of the Uni- 
 versity. 
 
 His high services to the cause of education have been formally recog-
 
 nized by various institutions. The degree of Doctor of Laws was con- 
 ferred upon him by Chicago University and by Kalamazoo College in 
 1870; by Brown University in 1882; and by the University of Michigan 
 in 1885. In 1884 he was made a member of the American Philosophical 
 Society of Philadelphia. 
 
 It was Professor Frieze's great success as a teacher in Providence 
 that attracted the attention of the authorities of the University towards 
 him, and the qualities which secured success there did not fail to have 
 their legitimate result here. He possessed the essential qualities "of a 
 teacher. With a keen sense of the great importance to the state and to 
 society of clear thinking, he always sought to make his students under- 
 stand that words must not be a substitute for thoughts. Feeling pro- 
 foundly the robust good sense, the grace and charm, the keen vision into 
 the springs of human action, the passionate hatred of vice, the practical 
 wisdom, of the authors who were read in his classes, he knew how to 
 inspire in all his students, according to the measure of their capacity, a 
 similar feeling. This was undoubtedly the strongest side of his teach- 
 ing; many a man has learned for the first time in Professor Frieze's 
 class-room what was the charm of great poetry, what was the power of 
 noble thoughts. Yet he did not neglect the drier part of his work in 
 order to cultivate what was more agreeable. Not only did he recognize 
 the disciplinary value of a thorough grammatical study, but he felt that 
 to appreciate the beauties even of any literature a more than superficial 
 acquaintance with its language was indispensable. 
 
 In his relations with students he was kindness itself, winning the 
 affection of all; and the news of his death will carry grief into many 
 widely separated households. 
 
 He was always and everywhere the ideal Christian gentleman. To 
 him may be applied the words once used of the venerated Dr. Williams 
 "Thy gentleness hath made us great "; and the sentiment of his own 
 favorite poet, 
 
 " Virtus repulsse nescia sordidse 
 Intaminatis f ulget honoribus," 
 
 is exemplified by him who ever wore the white flower of a blameless 
 life, and who was free from all guile. Modest and retiring, and, when 
 there was need, aggressive, a man of childlike simplicity and abounding 
 charity, a wise counsellor, a steadfast friend, a genial companion, the 
 University, the community, and the State have suffered in his death a 
 loss that seems irreparable. With his native refinement and delicate 
 sensitiveness was combined an almost passionate love of the beautiful, 
 which manifested itself in an exquisite taste and in an ardent devotion 
 to all that is beautiful in nature and in art. This feeling found fre- 
 quent expression in music, and his interpretation of the great masters
 
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 of song and harmony is one of the many delightful memories that will 
 always be associated with his name. 
 
 Whatever other memorials may be reared in his honor, the Univer- 
 sity is in a high sense his own imperishable monument, while in our 
 hearts and lives his name and spirit shall forever abide. 
 
 To his sorrow-stricken family the Senate desire to express their pro- 
 found sympathy in this time of great trial, and to invoke for them the 
 consolations of that religious faith which he so devoutly cherished. 
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 
 
 On Sunday, March 16th, 1890, Memorial Services in 
 honor of Dr. Frieze, were held in University Hall. A 
 large concourse of professors, students, and citizens, was 
 present. 
 
 The selections given below were sung by the Choral 
 Union, under the direction of Professor Stanley. 
 
 The order of exercises was as follows: 
 
 1. Hymn. " Now the laborer's task is o'er." Music by Barnby. 
 
 1. Now the laborer's task is o'er; 
 Now the battle day is past; 
 Now upon the farther shore 
 Lands a voyager, at last. 
 
 Father, in Thy gracious keeping, 
 
 Leave we now Thy servant sleeping. 
 
 2. There the tears of Earth are dried; 
 There its hidden things are clear; 
 There the work of life is tried 
 
 By a juster judge than here. 
 Father, in Thy gracious keeping, 
 
 Leave we now Thy servant sleeping. 
 
 3. There the angels bear on high 
 Many a strayed and wounded lamb, 
 Peacefully at last to lie 
 
 In the breast of Abraham. 
 Father, in Thy gracious keeping. 
 
 Leave we now Thy servant sleeping.
 
 4. " Earth to Earth, and dust to dustl " 
 Calmly now the words we say; 
 Left behind, we wait in trust, 
 For the resurrection day. 
 
 Father, in Thy gracious keeping, 
 
 Leave we now Thy servant sleeping. 
 
 2. Beading of the Scriptures and Prayer by Professor D'Ooqe. 
 
 3. Kequiem by Dudley Buck. 
 
 " Requiem dona ei, Domine, 
 Et lux perpetua luceat ei." 
 
 4. Address by President Angell. 
 
 5. Hymn. " Part in Peace." Music by Gounod. 
 
 Part in peace! is day before us? 
 Praise his name for life and light; 
 Are the shadows lengthening o'er us ? 
 Bless his care who guards the night. 
 
 Part in peace ! with deep thanksgiving, 
 Rendering, as we homeward tread, 
 Gracious service to the living, 
 Tranquil memory to the dead. 
 
 Part in peace! such are the praises 
 God, our Maker, loveth best; 
 Such the worship that upraises 
 Human hearts to heavenly rest. 
 Amen.
 
 HENRY SIMMONS FRIEZE, 
 
 A MEMOEIAL ADDEESS 
 
 BY 
 
 PRESIDENT JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D. 
 
 Gentlemen of the University Senate: 
 
 We hav^e gathered here to-day with that deep sense 
 of loss, which has weighed so heavily upon us for the 
 past few weeks. Daily as we enter these grounds or 
 pass through these halls, we miss the elastic step, the 
 radiant face, the genial word of him who for more than 
 a generation as the inspiring teacher, the helpful col- 
 league, the charming friend lias left a benediction on 
 every life he has touched. For five and thirty years he 
 has > formed so large a part of tlie University that we 
 who are left behind feel in our sorrow and privation as 
 though a portion of the very life of the University had 
 been cleft away. His loving and lovable nature drew 
 those of us who had known him longest and best so 
 close to him that it often seems to us as thouijli in his 
 death something was riven from tlie inmost being of 
 each of us. 
 
 We have felt that we could not deny ourselves tlie sad 
 pleasure of coming up to this place, where we liave
 
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 listened in days gone by to his words of instruction and 
 cheer, to recall the chief events of his life and the traits 
 of his character, and to express our appreciation of the 
 man and of his great services to the University. In 
 accepting your invitation to speak in your behalf on this 
 occasion, I am painfully aware how inadequate an idea 
 any picture I can dra^v can give to a stranger, of the 
 combination of beauty and of power, which was found 
 in his delicate and noble souL But I am sure that the 
 memories of his old friends will fill the outline which 
 I may sketch with a more lifelike portrait than pen or 
 pencil or chisel can produce. 
 
 Henry Simmons Frieze was born in Boston, Mass., 
 Sept. 15, 1817, where his father, Jacob Frieze, resided 
 for a brief period. His great grandfather was German 
 by birth. His father, who was a native, and for most 
 of his life a resident, of Providence, R. I., was a man of 
 marked intellectual vigor. The years of the early man- 
 hood of Jacob Frieze were given to teaching. Then he 
 entered the ministry of the Universalist denomination, 
 and preached until an affection of the throat compelled 
 him to desist. He was settled over parishes in Milford 
 and Marlboro, Mass., and Pawtucket, R. I. Later he 
 was engaged in editorial work on newspapers in Provi- 
 dence, and distinguished himself in the production of 
 political pamphlets, an agency which fifty years ago 
 was largely employed in political compaigns in Rhode 
 Island, as it had formerly been in England. He wielded 
 a sharp and caustic pen and was a formidable antagon- 
 ist in debate. He played a considerable part within my 
 recollection in the public affairs of Rhode Island. 
 From him the son inherited his intellectual activity,
 
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 and also his courage, in whicli, with all his gentleness 
 of manner, he was by no means wanting. From him 
 too he inherited his musical gifts. But from his mother, 
 Betsey Slade, of Somerset, Mass., a woman of devout, 
 sweet, and retiring nature, he received that delicacy, and 
 gentleness, and modesty, which were so characteristic of 
 him. The influences in the home were both stimulating 
 and refining. 
 
 But circumstances required the boy to become at an 
 early age a bread-winner. While yet a lad, he was 
 placed as a clerk with an excellent Christian man in 
 Providence, for whom he ever retained a strong affec- 
 tion. His taste and talent for music made him some- 
 what conspicuous as a musician, while he was still 
 young. Finding a remunerative position at Newport as 
 organist and teacher of music, he removed thither. By 
 the urgent advice of some of his cultivated friends in 
 that city, who recognized his talent and his promise, he 
 formed the purpose, though not until he was nearly 
 nineteen years of age, of gaining a college education. 
 While supporting himself by the exercise of his musical 
 gifts he hastily and imperfectly prepared himself for 
 college in the school of Joseph Joslin. During his resi- 
 dence at Newport he was confirmed as a communicant 
 in the Protestant Episcopal Church, to whose interests 
 he was in the most catholic spirit devoted through his 
 whole life. 
 
 In September, 1837, when he was just entering on his 
 twenty-first year, he was admitted to the Freshman class 
 in Brown University. He was one of the oldest students 
 in the class. He used to say that the recollection of the 
 amiable leniency of his examiners, to which he thought
 
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 he owed his admission, always inclined him to be char- 
 itable in judging the applicants who in all these years 
 came to him to be examined in Latin for entrance to 
 this University. Though he was at first somewhat 
 embarrassed in his college work by his lack of thorough 
 instruction in school since from the age of twelve or 
 thirteen to the age of nineteen he had been constantly 
 engaged in earning his livelihood his talent and indus- 
 try soon placed him at the head of his class, the position 
 which he held at graduation. His work was excellent 
 in all departments, but especially in the languages. 
 He had less aptitude for mathematics than for other 
 branches, but by dint of his diligence, he succeeded well 
 even in his mathematical studies. One of his classmates. 
 Rev. Dr. Kendall Brooks, writes me, " he had great dig- 
 nity, not only of manner, but of spirit also, and while 
 he was not intimate with many students, he was pro- 
 foundly respected by every one." He was organist and 
 chorister of St. John's church, and Superintendent of 
 the Sunday School during his entire college* course. He 
 was enabled by his services as organist and as a teacher 
 of music to pay his college expenses and to assist needy 
 relatives. It is clear that he must have been very indus- 
 trious to maintain his high college rank and to perform 
 so much outside labor. Moreover during a part of his 
 Junior year, owing to some disease of his eyes, he was 
 unable to use them in study. Many of his lessons he 
 learned by having them read. Having received the 
 highest honor at the Junior exhibition, the Latin ora- 
 tion, he was unable to touch pen to paper in the prepar- 
 ation of it, but dictated the whole of it. In all his col- 
 lege days he was conspicuously active and faitliful in
 
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 the exercise of a positive Christian influence. During 
 his Senior year there came upon him the gravest of sor- 
 rows in the sudden death of one who was dearer to him 
 than his own life. He bowed with Christian submission 
 to the heavy affliction, but the chastening memory of it 
 long left its impress upon him. The accounts that we 
 get of his undergraduate career give us the picture of a 
 gifted, earnest, devout, hard working and successful stu- 
 dent, who was learning not only what the college whose 
 standards were high and exacting, could teach, but also 
 the self-reliance and discipline, which dependence on 
 his own toil for support and sore providential trials 
 brought him in large measure. 
 
 Immediately on his graduation he was appointed 
 Tutor in Brown University, and held that position for 
 three years. His duties consisted mainly in the teach- 
 ing of Latin. Rev. Dr. Fisher, of the Yale Theological 
 Seminary, who was one of his pupils at that time, writes 
 thus of his recollections of the young tutor's instr:uction. 
 
 "His scholarship appeared to me to be faultless. 
 Nothing in the author whom we studied escaped his 
 attention. It was impossible for any one of us to pre- 
 pare perfectly for a recitation. There would be ques- 
 tions, fair questions too, which we had not foreseen. 
 His ideal of accuracy it was in vain for us to attempt to 
 reach. He always followed the translation made by a 
 student with a translation of his own; and this was uni- 
 formly, if not more correct, more tasteful and finished 
 than any of us by the utmost painstaking could present. 
 Mr. Frieze was a gentleman, and had a certain refine- 
 ment and reserve which kept off undue familiarity. I 
 think of him, as I always liave thought, as a teacher of
 
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 are qualifications. I owe him a debt wliich it has ever 
 given me much pleasure to acknowledge." 
 
 In 1 844 Mr. Frieze became associated with a classmate 
 in the conduct of the University Grammar School in 
 Providence, and continued in that work for the next ten 
 years. 
 
 In 1847 a happy marriage gave him the delights of a 
 home, which with his affectionate nature he was so fitted 
 to enjoy and to gladden.* Though our hearts run out 
 with tender est sympathy to his stricken wife and daugh- 
 ters, we may not invade the sanctity of their fresh grief 
 even to describe the sweet and beautiful spirit of domes- 
 tic love, which has lent such a charm to the quiet life 
 of their home. 
 
 The University Grammar School was composed largely 
 of pupils who were preparing to enter Brown Univer- 
 sity. It soon acquired a most enviable reputation. It 
 was my good fortune to enter that school in the late 
 autumn of 1844, and to enjoy the instruction of Mr. 
 Frieze in Greek and Latin until the following July. 
 No event of my life ever gave me a stronger intellectual 
 stimulus than the contact with that inspiring young 
 teacher during those few months. My heart was at 
 once bound to him with an affection which has grown 
 stronger and stronger through these five and forty years. 
 Such teaching as his was a revelation to me. How con- 
 tagious was his literary enthusiasm! So brilliant, so 
 stirring, so inspiring was all his instruction, that the 
 class seemed to be surcharged with his wonderful ner- 
 vous activity. When in reciting the lesson we had 
 
 August 16, 1847, he married Miss Anna B. Soffee, of Providence. The widow and 
 two daughters survive liim.
 
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 exhausted our slender stock of knowledge, which after 
 diligent study we had supposed with some complacency 
 to be of considerable value, how were w^e often startled 
 by a whole volley of questions, partly revealing what 
 was new to us, and still more stimulating us to search 
 before the next day for what was not revealed. When 
 the exercise was closed, the blood was in our faces and 
 our hearts were beating fast as though we had come 
 from a contest on the ball ground. How vividly I recall 
 him in the beauty of early manhood, as, with his dark, 
 rich, curly locks, falling on his neck, his eyes gleaming 
 through his spectacles, he conducted his classes. He 
 paced almost constantly up and down the platform. 
 Now and then he halted suddenly to pierce some stupid 
 blunder with a sharp question as with a winged arrow, 
 or again when we made a happy rendering of some fine 
 passage in Vergil his face beamed with a radiance which 
 was our sufiicient reward. His mien and bearing seemed 
 to impart to the class and to the whole school the spirit 
 of his ovei'flowing vitality and scholarly enthusiasm. 
 He seemed to me the ideal teacher. 
 
 It is not strange that when in 1854 a vacancy occurred 
 in the chair of Latin in this University, Professor Boise, 
 who had been familiar with Mr. Frieze's career as a stu- 
 dent and a teacher should have directed the attention of 
 the University authorities to his friend. Mr. Frieze was 
 at once appointed to the position which he held until the 
 day of his death. It was a rare fortune which brought 
 to the University in its early days two such classical 
 teachers as Professors Boise and Frieze. They so 
 impressed themselves upon the Institution in its plastic 
 and formative days, they so commended the value of the
 
 16 
 
 studies committed to their care, they invested what were 
 often contemptuously and ignorantly called " the dead 
 languages" with such a charm, they so illustrated in 
 their own minds the cultivating and refining power of 
 the ancient literatures that from the very beginning of 
 their labors an enthusiastic love for classical culture 
 was nurtured in this University, and it has continued to 
 this day. 
 
 After discharging the duties of his new chair for a 
 year, Professor Frieze obtained leave of absence in order 
 to gratify a long cherished desire of visiting Europe for 
 the purposes of observation and study. His mind so 
 keenly appreciative of all the beauties of art and of 
 nature, and so thoroughly trained and disciplined, reaped 
 the most abundant fruits from the visit abroad. He 
 attended lectures at the University of Berlin, afterwards 
 visited Italy, and returned homeward through France 
 and England. Before he started. President Tappan had 
 imparted to him something of his enthusiastic admira- 
 tion for German scholarship and German methods of 
 education. What he saw with his own eyes more than 
 confirmed his previous impressions of the great excel- 
 lence of the German gymnasial and university training, 
 and after his return he never ceased to commend the 
 application of German methods, so far as practicable, to 
 the work of our high schools and universities. One 
 can imagine rather than describe what delights and 
 inspirations a European journey furnished to a soul with 
 such a passion as his for music as well as for the beau- 
 ties of painting and sculpture and architecture. Presi- 
 dent White, who was one of his travelling companions 
 in Germany and Italy, writes to me with a delighted
 
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 recollection of Mr. Frieze's animated and instructive 
 conversation on questions of Roman life and character, 
 and especially on music, and says, " I have always 
 believed that had he been born in Germany he would 
 have ranked with great composers and performers." 
 He tells a pleasing story of their travelling on a train 
 from Dresden to Prague with some Bohemian soldiersJ^l) 
 who were singing :piftwtw>tini-^ songs, and Mr. YriezeMuM^ 
 jotted down the notes as they sang, and reproduced the! 
 songs afterwards. Nothing that was worth seeing or 
 hearing, we may be sure, escaped his alert and active 
 mind. We who are so familiar with the extraordinary 
 skill which he attained as an organist and a pianist, and 
 with some of his musical compositions, cannot deem 
 President White's estimate of his musical ability at all 
 extravagant. 
 
 At his suggestion the Regents placed a sum of money 
 at his disposal for the purchase in Europe of casts, sta- 
 tuettes, and photographs illustrativ^e of arclia3ology and 
 ancient art. Thus was laid the foundation of our 
 Museum of Art, for whose subsequent development he 
 worked so assiduously during the years that followed. 
 Its growth has been due more to his labors than to those 
 of any other person. It was largely through his influence 
 that the eminent sculptor, Randolph Rogers, decided to 
 give us the casts of his works, and that other valuable 
 works of art have been presented to the University. 
 
 He brought back from Europe higher ideals of his 
 own work and much broader conceptions of the function 
 of this University. He used in conversation to reproach 
 himself that when in 1851 Dr. Wayland, unfolded 
 his large views of what our American colleges and uni-
 
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 versities should attempt, he had not acquired breadth 
 enough to sympathize with the ideas of that great teacher. 
 But after coming here he was awakened by President 
 Tappan's vigorous expositions of educational doctrines, 
 which were quite in harmony with those of Dr. Way- 
 land, to a clear perception of their worth. After his 
 observation of European universities he was ever an 
 enthusiastic supporter of the jplans on which fortunately 
 for us our first President shaped the life of this Univer- 
 sity during the eleven years of his administration. 
 
 The spolia opima which he brought from his literary, 
 aesthetic and archaeological studies abroad added a new 
 charm to his teaching. In his presence, in his class- 
 room, even the raw and untrained student felt at once 
 the subtle influence of the spirit of culture, which eman- 
 ated from the instructor. The fineness of literary per- 
 ception, the delicacy of taste, which revealed themselves 
 through all his interpretation of the ancient masters of 
 thought, polished and elevated, while they instructed the 
 class. His exalted ethical nature led him also to impress 
 upon his pupils without cant or platitudes, but in the 
 most natural and effective manner, the moral, the heroic 
 qualities of the ancient characters of whom they were 
 reading. He made these characters living, real persons, 
 who had their messages for our times and for us. The 
 old literature was made vital with a fresh and throb- 
 bing life, that poured its currents into the lives of the 
 youthful students of our day. "Withal there was in 
 him the inexpressible charm of the finest breeding, 
 which wielded a power mightier than that of offic- 
 ial authority even over the rudest and most unculti- 
 vated student. How many a graduate have we heard
 
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 say that two impressions above all they brought from 
 Professor Frieze's class-room, namely, that he was the 
 perfect gentleman, and that he had the finest culture. 
 Who can measure the refining influence of such a mind 
 and character on the hundreds of men and women who 
 have passed under his hands. 
 
 He not only won the admiration of his pupils as the 
 accomplished scholar and gentleman, but he also won 
 their affection as their most faithful friend. His sym- 
 pathy Avas so quick and expressive that they were drawn 
 to him with a strong attachment. In his later years 
 this love of his students for him was mingled with a sort 
 of tender and filial reverence, which it was very charm- 
 ing to behold. It would have been simply impossible 
 for any one of them designedly to do anything which 
 would have caused him the least annoyance or to with- 
 hold any service which would afford him gratification. 
 This affectionate devotion of his pupils was to him, as 
 it is to every teacher, the most gratifying reward of all 
 his labors. 
 
 On the resignation of President Haven, in 1869, he 
 was appointed Acting President of the University. His 
 characteristic modesty led him to hesitate about accept- 
 ing the position, but he finally yielded to the persuasion 
 of the Board of Regents. The two years during which 
 he was the chief executive were marked by important 
 events in the history of the Institution. 
 
 In 1870 women were admitted to all departments of 
 the University. This step was taken by the Regents 
 rather in deference to public opinion than to the wishes 
 of the Faculties. I think that Professor Frieze, like 
 most of his colleagues, assented to the action of the
 
 Regents rather than urged it. To tell the truth, there 
 were many misgivings here on the ground concerning 
 the experiment of admitting women to these halls. But 
 Mr. Frieze and his colleagues generally soon became 
 convinced that the action of the Board was wise and he 
 did all in his power to make the experiment successful. 
 I never heard him speak of the presence of women in 
 the University except with the greatest satisfaction. 
 Another important step was due altogether to the sug- 
 gestion of the Acting President. That was the estab- 
 lishment of the so-called diploma relation with the 
 preparatory schools. The plan which he proposed and 
 which was adopted in 1871 was an adaptation to our 
 circumstances of the German method of receiving stu- 
 dents into the universities from the gynmasiums. No 
 measure has been adopted by the University authorities 
 in many years which has been more beneficial to both 
 the University and the schools, and none which has been 
 more widely or profitably imitated by other universities. 
 It was owing to the prompt action of Dr. Frieze and 
 the generosity of his friend, Philo Parsons, that the 
 library of Professor Rau, of Heidelberg, was secured for 
 us. It was at the instance of the Acting President that 
 the age for admission to the Literary Department was 
 raised from fourteen to sixteen years, that music was 
 introduced into the chapel service, that the custom of 
 furnishing a dinner to the alumni and friends of the 
 University on Commencement Day was introduced, and 
 that with the hope of creating a common interest 
 between the several departments an attempt was made, 
 though afterwards abandoned, to observe a University 
 Day by public exercises. It was during his term of
 
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 office that the legislature voted the sum of seventy-five 
 thousand dollars for the erection of the main building 
 between the two wings of University Hall, and so estab- 
 lished the happy precedent which every subsequent 
 leorislature has followed in furnishino; liberal means for 
 the erection of needed buildings for the University. 
 The power of Dr. Frieze's active and fertile mind was 
 felt in every department of the Institution. He was 
 afterwards twice called to the position of Acting Presi- 
 dent during the absence of the President, once serving 
 from June, 1880, to February, 1882, and again from 
 October, 1887, to January, 1888. The heavy wear and 
 tear of administrative labors from 1869 to 1871, ren- 
 dered perhaps more difficult by the fact that he was 
 known to be discharging them only temporarily, made 
 a serious draught upon his not very robust constitution. 
 No sooner was an incumbent of the Presidency, whom he 
 with the partiality of early friendship had commended, 
 chosen by the Regents, than he sought and obtained 
 leave of absence in order to visit Europe again. He 
 and his family remained abroad two years. He spent 
 his first winter at Tubingen, diligently studying San- 
 skrit under that great scholar. Professor Roth, attending 
 lectures at his pleasure in the University of Tubingen, 
 and mingling freely in society with the professors. He 
 afterwards spent a long time at the charming spot, which 
 President Tappan subsequently chose as his home, Vevey. 
 He travelled through Switzerland, went again to the 
 chief Italian cities, remained for several weeks at Mu- 
 nich, and visited among other j^laces Paris, Dusseldorf, 
 Berlin and Oxford. His object in this tour was not so 
 much to devote himself to study, as to seek tranquil
 
 ^2 
 
 enjoyment and recuperation in the midst of beautiful 
 scenery and those aesthetic delights which iine music and 
 the galleries of art afforded him. He came home in the 
 summer of 1873, refreshed and invigorated, and ready 
 to resume with zest the duties of his chair. 
 
 After his return, his ideal of the proper work of his 
 department and of the University was even broader and 
 richer than before. He gave instruction to advanced 
 classes chiefly in the works of Tacitus, of Seneca, and of 
 Pliny the Younger. He lectured and commented on 
 these authors in a very free, large, and suggestive man- 
 ner. He discoursed with equal fervor on the pregnant, 
 comjjact, sententious style of Tacitus, on the lofty ethics 
 of the stoic philosophy as interpreted by Seneca, and on 
 the high breeding and varied culture of that fine Roman 
 gentleman, the proconsul of Pontus and Bithynia. He 
 has also lectured for many years past on the history of 
 ancient art. He found opportunity to set forth in his 
 lectures the functions of the several fine arts, to ex- 
 pound the canons of art -criticism, to direct his pupils to 
 the illustrations of art to be found in our library and 
 our museum of art, and to give them the results of his 
 careful and appreciative studies in the museums of 
 Europe. 
 
 In his teaching of Latin authors, though he always 
 insisted on that accurate grammatical knowledge, with- 
 out which one cannot be said to know a language, and 
 though he did not in the least undervalue the impor- 
 tance of exhaustive philological training for some stu- 
 dents, he was always inclined, as has been intimated, to 
 concentrate the attention of his pupils chiefly on the 
 literary and ethical lessons to be drawn from the Latin
 
 writers. These lessons, he believed, were what all 
 except the few who were to be technical philologists 
 most needed. More and more in his later years he was 
 disposed to emphasize this idea. He insisted that Latin 
 should be so taught as to form a solid foundation for 
 the literary culture of college students, and that the 
 importance of so teaching it was rapidly increasing from 
 the fact that, especially in the west, large numbers read 
 Latin, who reacJ no Greek. He was ever urging pupils 
 to take Greek with the Latin. He regretted the ten- 
 dency among classical teachers to confine themselves to 
 one of these two ancient languages. He thought that 
 by excessive specializing in their work they incurred the 
 danger of becoming narrow, and that it would be better 
 if, as in German universities, our classical professors 
 gave some instruction in both literatures. But upon no 
 point was he accustomed to dwell in these later years 
 with so much fervor as upon the transcendent impor- 
 tance of teaching Latin literature not merely as a col- 
 lection of works of gifted men, but as the expression of 
 the life of the great Roman nation, uttering itself in 
 history, philosophy and poetry. Upon the exposition of 
 it he would turn all the illumination to be furnished by 
 Roman archaeology and Roman art. According to his 
 conception it was not Latin that we should study so 
 much as Roman, the achievements, the spirit, the vital 
 power of the Roman race. Nor should we teach and 
 study the literature of Rome with whatever enthusiasm 
 and admiration merely as a beautiful creation of a dead 
 past, but rather as the flowering of an imperishable life, 
 whose vital currents have been flowing through all the 
 western civilization of these eighteen centuries, and are
 
 fi4 
 
 still beating in the pulses of this nineteenth century. It 
 was the Rome, which has persisted with a power that no 
 Goth or Vandal could overcome, the Rome which helps 
 shape and fertilize our art, our laws, our literatures to- 
 day, the Rome which bids fair to endure when every 
 vestige of her proudest material structures shall have 
 crumbled into dust, it was that great, that glorious, 
 that immortal Rome, which he sought to recreate for his 
 loving pupils. 
 
 Dr. Frieze discharged the debt which every man is 
 said to owe to his profession by preparing editions of 
 the complete works of Vergil, and of the tenth and 
 twelfth books of Quintilian. These made his name famil- 
 iar to students throus-hout the land. His accurate schol- 
 arship and his fine literary spirit here as elsewhere charac- 
 terized his work and commended it to the approbation of 
 our best classical scholars. His edition of Quintilian was 
 the first prepared to meet the wants of American students. 
 He had a marked foundness for Vergil. I have some- 
 times thought. perhaps it is only a fancy that he was 
 drawn to the old Latin poet by a certain resemblance 
 between their characters. All the traditions depict the 
 bard of Mantua as endowed not only with a graceful 
 and beautiful mind, but also with a sweet, gentle, modest, 
 affectionate nature, that bound friends to him by the 
 strongest ties. I am sure there are some of us here, who 
 in the sense of our great personal loss have found spring- 
 ing to our lips those words of Horace concerning his 
 friend, " animcB dimidium mece^ We should certainly 
 place him in the group of friends, to whom we should 
 apply those other words in which Horace speaks of Ver- 
 gil, Plotius and Varius,
 
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 " Animae, quales neque candidiores 
 Terra tulit, neque quis me sit devinctior alter." 
 
 Dr. Frieze wrote three years ago a charming litlle 
 volume which was published in London on Giovanni 
 Dupre, the eminent Italian sculptor. It set forth in 
 flowing and simple style the story of Dupre's art life, 
 and revealed the author in every page as the sympathetic 
 and appreciative lover of whatever is pure and true in 
 sculpture. It contained also the translation of two lec- 
 tures on Art from the pen of Dupre's friend, Augusto 
 Conti, Professor of Philosophy in the University of 
 Florence, and President of the Academy Delia Crusca. 
 The book has been received with much fsLvor by lovers 
 of art both in England and in this country. The prep- 
 aration and publication of it led to a correspondence 
 between the writer and Professor Conti, which was very 
 gratifying to our friend. 
 
 Two of Dr. Frieze's addresses may be here mentioned 
 as especially worthy of notice. One was his discourse 
 on Dr. Tappan, delivered in 1882, and the other was his 
 discourse on the Relations of the State University to 
 Religion, given at our semi-centennial celebration in 
 1887. The former furnishes the best portraiture ever 
 made of the first President of the University; the latter 
 the ablest discussion ever bestowed on the subject it 
 handles. Both give us fine illustrations of the author's 
 broad conception of the function of a State University, 
 and of his incisive, vigorous and effective style of writing. 
 
 Among minor productions of his pen may be named 
 a paper on Art Museums in connection with Libraries, 
 furnished for the Report of the United States Commis- 
 sioner of Education for 1870, the descriptive Catalogue 
 3
 
 26 
 
 of our Art Museum, which shows the maiks of much 
 research, and felicitous articles in the Uni\ < rsity jour- 
 nals on deceased professors. The last article from his 
 hand, written only a few days before his death at my 
 urgent request, was a most interesting one suggested by 
 the presentation to our gallery of the statue of Gen. 
 Cass, and published in the Detroit Free Press. 
 
 It was always a matter of regret to his friends that 
 one who wrote so well was so reluctant to write for 
 publication, and even yet more reluctant to speak in 
 public. His modesty led him to underrate the value of 
 his work, and he was extremely averse to what he called 
 the drudgery of committing his thoughts to paper. 
 Nothing but a high sense of duty could overcome his 
 almost insuperable reluctance, due in large part to his 
 diffidence, to give a public address. 
 
 While conducting his own department with the high- 
 est aims. Dr. Frieze was ever seeking the improvemen 
 and development of the whole University. He was con 
 tinually urging the lifting of the Institution out of the 
 narrow ruts of a small local college, and giving it the 
 scope and elevation and power of a national University. 
 He never came so near the manifestation of impatience 
 verging on anger as when some policy was proposed, 
 which, he thought, would bind us down to methods that 
 we ought long ago to have outgrown and abandoned. 
 His vision was ever stretching out to a broad horizon 
 for us. He took a most active part in the important 
 changes which were made in the Literary Department 
 between 1875 and 1880. He was an earnest advocate 
 of the plan adopted in 1874 of conferring Master's 
 degrees only on examination, and also of the rule allow-
 
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 ing candidates for Bachelor's degrees to concentrate 
 their work in the latter part of their conrse on some 
 three branches of study. lie favored warmly the intro- 
 duction of the elective system into the courses of study 
 under the limitations which are how" in force. He was 
 chiefly instrumental in persuading the Regents to appoint 
 a professor of music who should give instruction in the 
 history and theory of music, and in inducing the citizens 
 of Ann Arbor to establish a school for vocal and instru- 
 mental practice. Indeed, during all the years of his 
 residence here he was ever active in stimulating both in 
 the city and in the University the study of music. 
 
 He was a staunch advocate of the policy of preserving 
 the unity and integrity of the University by retaining 
 all its Departments here. Whenever the proposal was 
 made, as it was rei)eatedly made during his term of ser- 
 vice, to transfer a part of our work elsewhere, he most 
 earnestly opposed it. He believed profoundly that in 
 the concentration of all our forces here lay our hoj^e of 
 giving the greatest efficiency to each Department and to 
 the University as a whole. He always had an unbounded 
 faith in the future of this Institution. In days of trial, 
 of disappointments, of unjust criticism of the Univer- 
 sity, when others were discouraged and despondent, 
 although such misfortune caused his sensitive nature 
 keen suffering, he was ahvays full of hope that the 
 clouds would soon give way to sunshine. He was sure 
 that the University had gained such headway that no 
 obstacles could much impede its progress. He believed 
 that it was so deeply intrenched in the affection of the 
 citizens of Michigan that tliey would not suffer it to be 
 seriously embarrassed. How often have I heard him in
 
 28 
 
 years past say that there was no reason why we should 
 not have two thousand students, and express liis strong 
 desire to live to see such an attendance. He was spared 
 to see that desire gratified, and repeatedly during the 
 early weeks of this University year he dwelt with 
 delight upon the fulfilment of his prediction .and the 
 granting of his wish. Not that he ever confounded 
 bigness with greatness, or desired the reputation of the 
 University to rest upon the number of its students 
 rather than upon the excellence of its work. He was 
 ever devising means to improve our facilities for teach- 
 ing and for elevating the character of our instruction. 
 But he felt that with the advantages we could offer we 
 deserved to have a large attendance, and that such a 
 proof of success as the presence of large classes affords 
 was a source of strength to the University. 
 
 His mind was extremely fertile in suggestions for 
 developing the growth and increasing the usefulness of 
 this Institution. He had observed keenly and studied 
 carefully the colleges and universities of this country 
 and of other countries, and had reflected much on the 
 causes of their failures and successes. He was very apt 
 in drawing lessons from their history. He seemed to be 
 ever busy in seeking to apply those lessons to our con- 
 ditions. In all these eighteen years of my intimate com- 
 panionship with him here, in our long daily walks 
 together, the burden of his conversation was that topic. 
 To build up this University, that was " his meat and 
 his drink," the dominant thought of his life, which 
 seemed never to be absent from his mind. No one of 
 the many faithful teachers under this roof ever gave 
 himself with more supreme devotion, body and soul, to
 
 29 
 
 the interests of this school of learning. And no man 
 since the days of that great leader, who gave to the Uni- 
 versity in so large degree its present form and spirit, 
 Dr. Tappan, has furnished so many of the ideas which 
 have shaped and enriched its life, as Dr. Frieze. Into 
 its life 'his very mind and heart have been builded. 
 
 Because his knowledge of university problems was 
 so large, and his judgment was regarded by his col- 
 leagues as so sound, he has always exerted a strong 
 influence over the Literary Faculty and over the whole 
 University Senate, and has inspired them with his own 
 hopefulness concerning the future of the Institution and 
 with his own broad views of university education. It 
 need hardly be said that with his generous conception 
 of a university, he cherished ideals which have not yet 
 been realized. He looked forward with fervent desire 
 and with strong hope to the establishment of a school of 
 art as a part of our organization. With the collections 
 of statuary which we have and of pictures which are to 
 come to us, properly housed in a fitting structure spe- 
 cially prepared for them, he l)elieved that we miglit well 
 set up such a school. He also longed for the day when 
 we might relegate to the pre])aratory schools or to col- 
 leges the work now done in the first year, and perhaps 
 also that of the second year of the literary course, and 
 organize a three years course on the model of tlie Ger- 
 man universities. If that })lan should remain imprac- 
 ticable, as for the present it is, he favored the conferring 
 of the Bachelor's degree at the end of three years of 
 undergraduate work, so that students might also com- 
 plete their professional studies before they were too far 
 advanced in years. He advocated this plan in his
 
 30 
 
 Report as Acting President in 1881 in one. of the aT)leat 
 papers ever pii])lished on that snbject. This brief 
 reliearsal of some of his ideas on university policy may 
 indicate how rich his mind was in pregnant suggestions, 
 and how fertile in the conception of generous and far- 
 reaching 2)ians. Few men in this country comprehended 
 so thoroughly the problems which are now set before 
 the American universities, or saw so clearly how those 
 problems should be solved. 
 
 I have thus rapidly sketched an outline of the career 
 of Dr. Frieze, and have shown, however imperfectly, 
 the spirit in which he wrought through his long and 
 beautiful life. The chief traits of his mind and charac- 
 ter are familiar to us all. 
 
 His mind Avas one of great activity and marked quick- 
 ness of apprehension. Possessed of a highly nervous 
 temperament, he had a certain restlessness of body and 
 mind. This did not betray him, as it does some, into 
 disjointed and fragmentary work, or lead him to hasty 
 and immature decisions, but rather revealed itself in an 
 intellectual eagerness and alertness and celerity. In his 
 best days his enthusiasm made this promptness . and 
 vivacity of mental action contagious and highly stimu- 
 lating to his pupils. 
 
 In his reading, at least in his later years, he followed 
 the old maxim of " multum^ non jnultay He read a 
 few masters thoroughly rather than many books super- 
 ficially or even rapidly. But having in his early man- 
 hood obtained a reading knowledge of the French, 
 German, Spanish, and Italian, as well as of the ancient 
 classical languages, and having strong literary and aes- 
 thetic tastes, his studies in literature and in the history
 
 31 
 
 of art, and especially of music, had taken a pretty wide 
 range. In any society of literary scholars or artists his 
 well -stored mind was sure to contribute something of 
 value and of interest to the conversation. He left upon 
 them as upon his pupils the deep impression that he was 
 a man of rare culture, of true literary instincts, of the 
 finest mental texture, of rich and generous attainments. 
 But his literary and aesthetic sense, his artistic feeling, 
 the justness of his critical judgment were more con- 
 spicuous than his learning. 
 
 Perhaps no trait in his mental constitution was more 
 marked than his lov^e of the beautiful, whether in art or 
 in nature. His soul was sensitive in the highest degree 
 to any appeal which beauty made, whether through 
 form or color or sound. Architecture, sculpture, paint- 
 ing, music, in all he delighted with the passion of an 
 artist. His love of nature was like that of a poet. The 
 grass, the flowers, the trees, the streams, he held sweet 
 commerce with them all. Never was he happier than 
 in his long rambles through the woods and fields. And 
 liow he loved our woods and fields. His strong local 
 attachment to this place, which was always finding 
 utterance in his conversation, gave him an enthusiasm 
 about the scenery of this neighborhood, on which his 
 friends occasionally rallied him. But for miles around 
 he could guide you to every " coigne of vantage," every 
 shady nook, every meadow carpeted with the finest turf, 
 every graceful sweep in the stream. With what ardor 
 he would in your walk with him arrest your steps again 
 and again, to dilate upon the charms of the bit of land- 
 scape before you. Witli wliat zest and ])ride he would 
 exclaim, as from some hill top he cauglit the view of tlie
 
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 spires and towers of the city, " it is really finer than the 
 view of Oxford hanging on my wall." His love for the 
 town and the University, and his delight in the pleasing 
 scenery about us, made him often speak with gratitude 
 of the kindly Providence which had cast his lot in what 
 he regarded as an ideal home. 
 
 Dr. Frieze's character was marked by an unusual 
 combination of great modesty I might perhaps say 
 diffidence, or even shyness with real courage. His 
 modesty sometimes impressed those who did not know 
 him well as timidity. He had a very humble estimate 
 of his abilities and attainments. This diffidence caused 
 him much anxiety in the earlier years of his work as a 
 teacher. Even in these later years the visit of strangers 
 to his class made him uncomfortable. He used to ask 
 me not to bring visitors to his lecture room. When he 
 had some important suggestion to make to the Faculty 
 concerning University affairs, he often persuaded some 
 one else to present it. Only when he was convinced 
 that it was really necessary, often not until he was 
 pressed by his colleagues for his opinion, would he 
 speak in the Faculty meetings. He was ready enough 
 to express his views on any subject in private conversa- 
 tion, but had the most unusual reluctance to present 
 them formally and in public. But in the Faculty the 
 respect for his opinion was such that when it was made 
 known, whether through the lips of others or by himself, 
 it carried great weight. Yet, notwithstanding his great 
 modesty, when it became necessary to act and courage 
 was needed for the act, he was never found flinching 
 from duty. He disliked controversy, avoided it when 
 possible, and often averted it by his conciliatory spirit.
 
 33 
 
 But in great crises in the history of this Institution, 
 though he was never clamorous in deV)ate, he stood at 
 his post firm as a rock for what he deemed wise and 
 right, whether the issue was with insubordinate students 
 or with external foes of the University. 
 
 He was eminently social. He was fond of the society 
 of friends with tastes congenial to his own, and was one of 
 the most charming of companions and truest of friends. 
 He loved good cheer. His conversation was vivacious 
 and sparkling. His bearing was refined and attractive. 
 Utterly free from all censoriousness, never indulging in 
 acrid criticisms of others, his affectionate, generous 
 nature won all hearts and imparted to them the same 
 genial spirit which ever dwelt in him. He was a most 
 welcome guest in every household. He carried sunshine 
 into every company. His tender, sympathetic, loving 
 nature, gave a depth and richness to his more intimate 
 friendship, which only those who enjoyed it can measure. 
 
 The religious life of Dr. Frieze was simple, sincere 
 and beautiful. Warmly attached to his own branch of 
 the church, he had the most catholic and fraternal feel- 
 ing for every other branch. One of the most interesting 
 papers he ever wrote was a plea for the true Christian 
 union of all believers, which he prepared about a year 
 ago for the Students' Christian Association. His faith 
 was singularly childlike. To him religion was not 
 something formal, not something " to be worn on the 
 sleeve," or obtrusively talked about in the market place, 
 but the cheerful, trustful, reverent spirit of the Christian 
 disciple, moulding and inspiring the whole life, in its 
 pleasures as in its sorrows, in its daily routine of toil as 
 in the hours of worship in the church. The vexed ques- 
 4
 
 34 
 
 tions of pliilosophical, scientific and theological specula- 
 tion did not disturb the serenity of his soul. He under- 
 stood their import. He apj^reciated and lamented the 
 embarrassments of those who were troubled by them. 
 But the foundations of his spiritual life, laid deep in a 
 loving trust of his Heavenly Father, and in the joyful 
 following of the Lord Jesus Christ, were never shaken 
 by the storms of discussion, which in this age beat upon 
 every thoughtful mind. A soul more naturally and 
 cheerfully devout than his, one that in all moods and 
 all experiences was more completely transfused with the 
 spirit of love to God and love to man, one of whom we 
 may more truly say, 
 
 " Whose Faith and work w ert' lulls of lull ucronl " 
 
 I have never known. 
 
 And so death had no terrors for him. He often spoke 
 of it to me as one speaks of a coming journey. At the 
 bejrinninsr of each of the last two or three winters he 
 has deemed it not improbable that bronchial or pul- 
 monary complications might prove fatal to him. His 
 chief anxiety seemed to be not about himself, but about 
 his family, and about his department of work in the 
 University. After the death of his dear friend and as- 
 sociate. Professor Elisha Jones, to whom he had hoped 
 to leave the care of the instruction in Latin, he was 
 extremely anxious that a successor in sympathy with 
 his views of the conduct of the Latin work should be 
 found and appointed. After his wish had been grat- 
 ified, and plans for the conduct of his department 
 had been matured, and especially when the University 
 year opened so prosperously, he was extremely happy.
 
 35 
 
 Again and again in his long walks with me in the early 
 autumn he spoke of the gracious Providence which had 
 during his life cast for him the lines in so pleasant 
 places, of the charming memories of his college days, 
 of his and my old-time friends in Rhode Island, of his 
 pride in many of his former pupils, and especially in 
 those who had become his colleagues in the Faculty, of 
 the early struggles of the University and of his confi- 
 dent hope of its future prosperity. Some months ago, 
 after much ui-ging on ni}- part, I obtained from him a 
 partial promise to make a sketch of his life, a promise 
 which unhappily he did not live to fulfill. 
 
 He began the labors of the year in good spirits, and 
 as we thought, with a measure of strength which might 
 at least carry him through the winter. We now know 
 that the insidious and fatal disease which caused his 
 death was even then sapping the foundations of his life. 
 He soon took a grave view of his malady. His mind 
 became clouded at times. But it was pathetic may 
 we not say characteristic that his spirit of love and 
 tenderness seemed to shape his visions even in the wan- 
 derings of his mind. His attending physician has told 
 us the touching story how, in those half conscious hours 
 of his last illness, he recited with apparent delight the 
 names of associates dear as pupils and colleagues and 
 friends and expressed his gratitude that they had so 
 cheered his life. Pure and loving heart! not one of us 
 ever gave to thee a tithe of what thou gayest to us. 
 
 And now after all that I liave said, after all that any 
 one could say, I feel and you feel how far short my 
 words have come, or any words can come, of making a 
 complete portraiture of our friend. There was some-
 
 36 
 
 thing in his winning personality that eluded analysis. 
 There was in him a certain charm of soul, which cannot 
 be fully depicted with such an instrument as human 
 speech. But memory will preserve for us the sweet 
 recollections of the winsomeness of that personality, of 
 the attractiveness of that spirit. And so for }ears to 
 come his radiant presence will not be altogethei* lost to 
 us. And so long as this University shall stand, some- 
 thing, we may hope, of the benign influence of this 
 refined, devoted, noble scholar and teacher will remain 
 as a factor in its life.
 
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