The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-12-09
professor NJ, ]. Smead-AIinutc OF the
E3cuIty.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA,l
L.. 1 LII

UNIVERSITY OF GEoRGIA,l
November II, ls7i.
yyboras, A. has rIcas2d Almighty God to :e-
,nnyr from our ,uidst pr. VI. j. IN FAD profess
sor o. modern lauguircs Ia tnls C"iVcrshy, y ID
hereby ordered that the following miAutc Uo ca
tered on The record Of the Faculty - all aAp'GS-
sion OF the re- poet and regard cherished Tor MS
character and services by Ills surviving coi-
leagGcs 70: , u,,,,,t
department o. the universi Y, mad commented
himself TO our confidence and appreciation oy
m anhood towards it, hual ideal: give an aH,l<-
trnaI lustre To The attributes OF itellect ana Gle
a,aiam Of a b betiFins
to private culture, and finding IN the pn sus's 81
literature their own soiace and rcw&fd, DC was
We: genial and earnest in everything IN II dc
mandsd industrious effort Or even eNdcted pain ,
ful toll. iuto the routine OF diiIy iuty DC carried
the high integrity OF pure aims 2nu generous put
nTs.s miurfu! glwa. 8 Of TINT supreme aspect OF
human stew aruShip which eEdp"s lhe ministry OK
Intellect With Interests so great ana cOssqu noes
so immeJsarabe. In these Gutlcs be was ialthlu,
Zaalrus. UNI emitting. Nothing stcularlZcd Inc
sanrti;y OF these lofty Obligations; nothing i'm
paired the force OF Tn ir spiritual meaning; notl-
lug suck their dguity i'll mete f9Fmai tasks Dot
bringing III tncm Inspiration b!ri er than TASTE,
he DISCHARGED Ill these obligations with VIII ols-
nlpl,ned Us we'll as animated By motives drawn
No one laboreI harder than Ia To attain just
ness of iutel!cct-tho last and r1pest pr2dnct ~
leunod and hberalculure. oguard against all
exagsera!ious--to watch even The lmDassioned
f. vyr of true fce!lngs-to admit all possible
qualifications or thought and rest every truth on
the essence Of LIS absolute wOrih-this WAS the
dominant habit or his mind, which gave his
instructions such 4 clear and uneQulrocal value.
Such loss Is never COMPENSATED. Ii rem aims
loss forever. The world has no means al COM
maud to I'LL the void which Is made wOcn genius
and worth 40 down iEto the grave. In he death
of DIR. SMEAD are conscious OF the loss whic b
this University has sustained; nor IN we DOUBT
that In It's wider reach American cul, ure. which
now begins to realize the brotherhood Of trans
Atlantic culture, has also suffered. A thoroughly
classical mind, laying the basis Of broad and
catholic education In those antique mods ard
forms OF thought which still "rule as from their
sceptsrcd urnS," f. had superadded The III yalua-
bic dement's of foreign education by ths acquis..
ton OF those modern languages In which the
searching Insight and wide range ard multi 'udi-
nous CompleXity OF this ctnturY's civilization
huldits o 40: and reach out It's mysterious future
Ia this respect he WAS slrguIaily competent &c
contribute his share Of agency to the union of the
old and the new work 10: which few cvol
among emiU eat scholars are fitted.
But this career, 80 useful. SO promising, so full
of calm faith In It's own eventual achievements
has bseu auddeuly closed In death. Yet 1t WAS the
death or Christian thinker, Christian scholar
q rhri stan worker aud this assurance survives
him To give final completeness 10 this tenderness
of his memory aud the endurinSness OF his worth