She was as comprehensive as the skies. If she gave especial effort to a particular subject, it was because she felt that it lay nearest to her hand and that God called her to do it first. What the hour and situation made a duty, that she did. But she was the teacher of all righteousness, the organizer of all purity, and the lover of all the world. The only lives whose memories will survive the destroying years, are the lives of those who have blessed the world-those who have brought healing and solace to their fellow men.
Life is too full of pain to linger over the deeds of history's monsters and fiends.
Mankind will at last remember only those who have shed sweetness and beauty and joy on the weary world. Seen the list of these and tell me who stands nearer the ineffable One, than this gentle lady, who, in an age of iron and steel, founded an imperishable empire of affection. And it is for these reasons, deep as fate and enduring as time, that Mr. Shaffer begs this university to accept this work of art that permanently reproduces the features of the glorious woman that America and Illinois and Evanston and this noble institution gave to the world, humanity and history.