Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-08-05

Death Of a Dis inguished Pennsyi-
vanian.

One OF fennSyiVonlt pistih-
gliished sons passed away last Fri
day, when DR.. Pepper, of the Uni
versity of Pa, died suddenly in
California, where he had gone for
the benefit of his health. His life
work has been building up and or
ganizing the public. institutions of
Philadelphia, more especially in de-
veloping the usefulness of the great
University of which he was the
head. From a small school hardly
known outside the city limits and
without proper departments it has
grown to be one of the best equipped
and most celebrated Universities in
the world. The Philadelphia Press,
speaking of his labors, says:
"His contributions began the
work of extending the medical
course and his professional skill
PLANNED its extensions. The de.
velopment of graduate work, the
creation of new departments, the
extension of the grounds of the
university and the multiplication of
its buildings went on under his adj
ministration as provost. He drew
to the institution endowments, in
structors and pupils he wakened n
new local pride, and his policy
made it the center of a hest of re-
lated societies. The archaeological
research which has given it the first
Oriental collections in the country
and one of the first Babylonian col
lections in the world was his work.
He founded and expanded its muse
um. He endowed himself labora-
tory for special work. Outside of
the University he urged and
brought to it's beginnings university
extension. He nursed the Free City
Library through all its stages until
it's circulation has made world re-.
cord. He lifted the Commercial
Museum to its present position. He
was fast turning the Associated
Museums" into collections worthy
any city. The coming exposition
felt his leadership,
These public tasks and labors he
accomplished and achieved while he
carried on an exhausting practice,
whose extent was only limited by
his time and strength, and not al
ways by that. He held his place as
a medical instructor of the first
rank. He was voluminous writer
in medicine, and added to its stand
ard work general view of the art
of healing as remarkable for the
scope of it's design as for the ex-
tent of its learning, for the accur-
acy of its judgment as for the skill
of its treatment. Sought by the
wealthy, he was at the daily call of
the poor his time commanding re-
turn unsurpassed in his calling he
gave freely to public work and in
the two closing years of his life,
when strength was failing when
health was broken and every friend
he had and every fiber in his frame
was pleading with him for rest, he
gave his magnificent energy and
capacity to a campaign for pure
water and the passage of the loan
bill.
His life ends. Thousands who
benefited and will benefit by his
labors will never know his name
His sad and untimely end leaves
much that he had planned ard
would have accomplished incom.
plete but the lesson of his life and
the example of his devotion are CON-
plete and ineffaceable. 1t is by such
men that cities prosper and civiliza-
ton advances for this is done moi
by trump and drum, by amassing
wealth and erecting buildings, buI
by adding to education, by promot
ing knowledge, by organizing re
search and giving access to the tool!
and records or science and learning
These things he did, and he was
besides all this, the dear friend, the
philanthropist, the public citizen
the liberal giver and the eminent
physician. His departure to al
who knew him personally leavei
life more empty and the future bare
Statistics show tnat the per cap
ita consumption of intoxicants il
this country is slowly but steadil.
decreasing. It could be decreased
at the same rate for long time anC
still be large. Various causes ar,
assigned for the reduced consump
ton of liquors, and doubtless it
due to a combination of influences
Whatever the cause we may b
thankful for the fact as an jndica
ton that our progress is in the righ
direction.
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