New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-15
TRIBUTES TO EDUCATOR.
Memorial Service at Teachers Col
Lege-Dr. JOhnSt0n'S Sermon.

A short service IN memory of DR.. William
Rainey Harper president Of the University Of Chi
cago, was held at Teachers College yesterday af-
ternon President Hall of the Union Theological
Seminary presided After the singing ny the audi
ence of the hymn. Now the Laborer's Task is
Ger" President Hall read a scriptural lesson and
offered prayer President Butler of Columbia Uni
versty then paid a tribute to Dr. Harper He
said in part:
The life of President Harper was one #, full zt Of
are sorry that we have lost a friend and the
the ioy Of living He hated cant and he did not
mistake applause for approval GOOD tn1gs WEI
gave all he had to his friends It is said Of him
that he died Ike Spartan Ho" raise thar Is ihe
President Wilson Of Princeton next spoke He
said:
death of President Harper is one OF the deepest
ar0Hr but but to we recognize his immortal soul
realized that he dealing with men Sp b,t
he did more He became great and attracted
the attention Of the world The pS an his
is a real President Harper loxed az sn ne ne
fellow men He spent all his life using u IGT se
pstTicia9s ms # is wrong TO say of him that he
wore himself out. He spent himself
President Hall compared the life of President
Harper with that Of Thomas Arnold One ne salo
had premonition Of death at the age OF forty
seven, and died that year; the other president ha
per had also a premontion at the same age our
did not die for two years later
Among those having seats on the platform were
Chancellor MacCracken OF New-York University.
School Superintendent Maxwell. President INT Oh
the Board of Education, President Finley of City
College President Humphreys OF stevens Ilsu-
tute President Atkinson of the Brooklyn Foly-
techntc Institute Henry s. Pritchett OF the III
rectorate of the Carnegie fund; Edward NJ. Shep-
ard Robert C. Ogden and Silas Brownell
In the course of a at the Fifth Avenue
Baptist Church the Rev. DR.. r. P. Johnston, the
pastor. said:
The University OF Chicago will be monument 70
two men neither OF whom could have done what
he did without the other. When we consider ms
great achievements an administrator and man
list Of books and articles that he wrote Parllcu55
larly when we consider his studies IN HepTeW dIIu
his writings the Hebrew prophets especlaIy ms ~.
exclaim: How did he do 1t all -, -t
It was my fortune last year TO De thrown inECE
with DR.. Harper for some days, both OF US DeIle
laid up for repairs so TO speak There was IN MS
conversation dependency, no gloom no Io[e-
boding: Knowing wei that the END couia not o pF
that needed be done that he ever made any allu-
sion to the fact that he had but a little while 70
said: MARK how Christian can die" And IN
Dr. Harper the whole world has during the last
year watched the calm, heroic triumphant way IN
which Christian can live while facing certain
death. And his complete serenity was remarkaole
John D. Rockefeller jr.. not present at the
service. It was said that he was out Of town.
The Rev w. s Richardson, the secretary OF the
Young Mems Bible Glass OF the Fifth Avenue
Baptist Church. spoke briefly TO the class yester-
dsv morning in eulogy Of President Harper, noting
that he had appeared before the class special
speaker. and that he was, In fact, an honorary
member Of the class. He said that he was a most
simple life Of a humble home to become Of
the greatest men Of his day