Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1902-03-21

the stellar heavens = - T.: n,
compared In wastefulness M k II
extinction OF great minds. Their
gathered resources, their matured
skill, their luminous insight, their
unfailing tact are not like instincts
that can be handed down. They
are absolutely personal and inslien-
able, grand conditions of future
power, unavailable for the race and
perfect for an ulterior growth of the
Individual. If that growth is not TO
be. the most brilliant genius bursts
aid van;sbes "a q firework in the
night. A mind OF balanced and
finished faculties is a production at
once OF infinite delicacy and of most
induring constitution. Lodged in q
fast perishing organism. it is like a
perfect set of astronomical instru-
ments, misplaced in an observatory
shaken by earthquakes or cavinp in
with decay. The lenses are true, the
mirrors without a speck, the move
ment smooth, the micrometer exact;
what shall the Master do but save
the precious system, refined with so
much care, and build for it a new
house that shall be founded on a
rock"
The following resolutions taken
from the minutes were read:
"The faculty of the University of
Georgia have learned with profound
sorrow of the death at Auburn, Ala.
on Thursday, January %, 1902, of
William Leroy Broun, NJ. A., L. L.
D., late president of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute and sometime
professor in this university and presi-
dent of the Georgia State College of
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
"For a period of so years, save
four which he gave to the military
service of his country during the war
between the states, DIR. Broun was
continuously and actively engaged in
the education of the youth of the
south, filling the important chairs of
mathematics and physics successive
ly In no less than five leading
southern institutions of learning.
"As great and successful teacher
he achieved a reputation both among
his own people and abroad probably
second to that of no man of his
generation.
GAS a lover of science, for the sake
OF the truth disclosed by science, he
was conspicuous for his devotion to
research and his ethusiasm in ex-
position.
"As an executive he administered
the affairs of great institution of
learning with wisdom, energy and
extraordinary success.
CAS- a man he was admired in all
the relations of life; devout Chris
tian, lovable, loving gentleman, an
inspiration of his pupils, an exemplar
to his associates.
"ln testimony of the great esteem
in which he was held by this faculty,
among whose members are some who
were his pupils and some who were
his colleagues, and as an expression
of their profound sorrow occasioned
by his death, it is
"Ordered, 1. That this minute
be inscribed upon a page of the
faculty records set apart for the
purpose.
"2. That the Chancellor be re-
quested to read these minutes before
the students Of the university in
chapel assembled and to make such
comments thereon as to him may
seem appropriate.
"3. That copy hereof be sent
by the secretary of the faculty to the
family of DR.. Broun in token of the
respectful sympathy of this faculty
with then, in their great bereavement.
"a. That copy hereof be fur
nished the press for publication.
University of Georgia, Feb. 8.