The San Francisco call., 1904-02-27
Memorial Services Are
Held on Birthday
of lie COnte.

BERKELEY, Feb. 26.-Memorial
services in honor of those that have
passed away within the year were held
this morning at the University of Cali
fornia. Many people gathered in Har-
mon gymnasium to hear words of love
and respect for friends and loved ones
that have answered the call of the
reaper.
This day was set apart to honor the
memory of the late Joseph lie Conte
and the occasion was all the more i'm
pressing because there had died within
the year three men who were his
friends and observation-disclosures Mar
tin Kellogg, Louis Du Pont Syle and
Felicien Paget. These mems lives and
works were touchingly referred to in
the services by Professor William
Carey Jones, himself their friend and
associate.
Max Thelen, president of the As
sociated Students, presided over the
meeting which began with an invoca-
ton by the Rev. ]. X. Mclean, presi-
dent Of the Pacific Theological Semi
nary. The list of faculty members and
students that have died since the last
memorial day was then read by Mr..
Thelen, their names being Professors
Kellogg. Syle, Paget, John Henry Dye
and Edith Putnam Dart, senior and
assistant in the library; Ralph z.
Gibbs, graduate; Hans Gutmayer,
graduate; W. J. Allen. graduate; E. w.
Furbush, graduate; w. c. White,
senior; Valentine Law, sophomore.
In his memorial address Professor
Jones referred to the significance of
the day and then devoted himself to
a review of the lives of his departed
friends. saying in part:
The significance OF the day you have chosen
FOR reiighting the fire on our university :
sacred hearth. OF cOmmemorating the purihsd
members OF our community. is that il is the
birthday of Joseph lie Conte. In selecting
this day you have given evidence Of beauti-
ful instinct of our nature. In the lifetims
Of Professor lie Conte II was a day of re-
joicing, of felicitation that yet another wear
had come around and that beloved presence
was still with US.
Of the fountains OF love. The most signal
fact in Professor lie Ccnte's influence on the
university community was the instilling. OF
the educing OF an unqualified love. 1t was
not admiration, reverence, veneration. that he
drew forth He may have been the object
~ sentiments. he NAV have had almost adora-
degree was the love Of all the beings among
whom he dwelt And that a far more
wholesome emotion more wholesome for the
individual and for the collective body than
one OF Venerstion worship The attitude
of alteration is one 20 be directed toward an
other power than the human
The fair spirit % Edith Putnam Dart de-
parted in the earliest usefulness OF life. the
soul of John Henry Dye. faithful officer and
friend. all too briefly identified with the UNI
versity: Of Professor Louis Du Pont Syle
the wines Of his life broken In self-sacrihce:
OF Professor Martin Kellogg. after the Longest
service granted to any one TO devote to the
university. and Of Professor FelicieD Victcr
Paget. after . two years contest with the
inevitable.
The services closed with a song by
the university's glee club and the bene-
diction by the Rev. Mr.. Mclean. This
afternoon the Golden Bear Society. un-
der the leadership of Max Thelen.
marched in body to the lie Conte
oak on the campus and hung upon it
a floral wreath. which is every year
renewed