Addresses Delivered at Public Services at Bowdoin College, October Twenty-Fourth, Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen: And Other Tributes to the Memory of President William Dewittt Hyde (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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For the student, he erected above the psychology of the mere intellect the higher psychology of the heart and of con duct. Ethics with him meant always practical ethics, idealism meant always practical idealism, theology generally meant so cial theology, the everlasting quest of mind meant the quest of the best. And if we were to scour all his books for a single utterance typical of what he was and did, I think we might find it in these fifteen words conveying in pregnant formula his philosophy of right thinking and right living: Acceptance of anything other than the Best, after the Best is once'known, is sin.

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Excerpt from Addresses Delivered at Public Services at Bowdoin College, October Twenty-Fourth, Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen: And Other Tributes to the Memory of President William Dewittt Hyde

Bowdoin College has lost a great president and gained a great memory. The workman lays down his tools, the teacher's voice grows silent, the friend passes from sight; but the work continues, the inspiration of personality remains, the friend takes on a new and mysterious power.

It is but half a year ago that the man we remember with so profound a sense of loss delivered before his fellow townspeople a vigorous address on the great war, and was in the full activity of his college work. He afterwards wrote his baccalaureate sermon, though he did not deliver it. All this seems very recent - and now the change. He lives and works among us to-day as an invisible presence. We shall know him henceforth as a great and dynamic memory.

My acquaintance with President Hyde covered the entire period of his connection with the college; my more intimate association, through membership in the Board of Trustees, exactly the second half of that period. I have seen him at the council table, in the class-room, in the pulpit, on the educational platform, in the social gathering, at the public dinner, on the railway train, on the playground, at the vacation resort, and in his own home. I have known him in times of gladness and in times of trial; when the world praised him and when blame and criticism were his lot. And from no time or place in this long and varied experience do I recall any word or deed of his unworthy of a true man; but, on the contrary, many a kindly or uplifting utterance, and many an act revealing a large and generous soul. He was one and the same man everywhere and always. The warp and woof of his life were as a garment woven without seam and worn without blemish.

There are many sides to the nature of any man of vision and power.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.