Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-11-03
DIR. JAMES HENRY CARLISLE.
CORNER Wofford Student Pays Trib-
ute to Learned Educator.

thousands Of hearts over South Car
olina and the entire South were made
sad by this Intelligence. Men of
prominence in distant States OF the
Union and in foreign countries have
read the announcement with tear
dimmed eyes, for wherever Wofford
man has gone, there DR.. Carlisle's
name was known, honored and loved.
People of every denomination, condi-
tton and rank in life looked upon
him with love and reverence, and
wherever the welfare and advance
ment of humanity Is taken to heart
his death is mourned as common
loss.
South Carolina has lost one of her
most distinguished sons and noble
citizens. DR.. Cariisle's long and great
life was spent in the service of his
State, building for her a true and
lofty manhood, than which there Is
no work nobler or of more vital i'm
portance. For ffty-five years he had
been connected with Wofford College
and had been pouring out the pre-
cious treasures Of his great mind and
heart into the lives of her students;
and, though DR.. Carlisle Is dead, yet
he lives in the tenderest memories,
= highest ideals, loftiest aspirations
and noblest deeds Of hundreds of
men whose good fortune it was to
come under the magnetism Of his
sublime life.
In stature DR.. Carlisle was Of gil
gantic mould, being several inches
taller than the ordinary man; in
bearing he was majestic, but it was
the majesty Of spotless purity and
beautiful simplicity. When in his
presence one felt as If he were in
the presence Of a man Of finer fiber
and order superior to ordinary men.
There was an inexplainable some
thing about the man which silently
rebuked littleness and opposed an
unassailable barrier to any attempt
at undue liberty with the dignity and
sacredness of his individuality; and
yet he was easy to approach, and his
kindly smile and word of sympathet-
tc interest reasSured one and put him
at ease.
His sympathies were as broad as
the great range of human conditions
and as deep as the depth of human
needs; his interests were as broad
as human life itself. No man so
humble but that he could find some
point of common interest between
them. He seemed to be a mediator
between the two extremes Cf life-to
teach the rich aAd powerful consid-
Grafton for the poor and weak, and
to teach the poor not to feel bitter
ness toward the more fortunate, and
the inferior respect and submission
to the superior. His interest in all
conditions of men was deep and
never-failing. He did not hesitate to
engage In conversation with the
humblest and most illiterate man,
either white or black. In this he
mad double purpose. He wished to
lose no opportunity of helping some
one, and to gain a deeper and more
correct insight into human life. Il
must remark here in passing that If
all men would be as just and consid-
crate in their dealings with that in
teriol people as was he, there would
be very little race trouble.
DR.. Carlisle was gigantic in intel
lect as we'll as in physique. His
great mind seemed to be vast store
house of knowledge, and was ready
to yield up its treasures whenever he
pressed the magic button of men,
ory. His was the analogical type of
mind. Mention any subject and in
stantN there leapt into his mind
every fact which he had ever known
that was related to that subject or
In anyway bore upon any thought
arising from its discussion. In style
his diction was clear, strong, simple
and majestic; it was epigrammatic,
like Oriental expression of thought,
rather than Occidenal, and Ct say it
reverently) resembled the style Of
the Great Teacher himself His
speeches were perhaps not so logi-
cal as those Of some thinkers, but
they we're full of nuggets of pure
onll all l,,l
richest thought. Indeed, such SEN
tences did not need close logical con-
nection. At times he would draw
himself up to his full height, and,
his face radiant with the power of
moral earnestnesS, lie would drive
home some thought with wonderful
effect
! remember that in an address to
a graduating class once he said:
Young man, be complete man;
don't be Just a brilliant fraction"
once, when my class were studying
geology and he knew we were meet
ing with some Of the theory Of evolu
ton, he said to us. as we walked
into his astronomy class: young
men, do you believe evolution made
the world? If so, who made evolu-
tion?"
All Olu student OF his VINO had
- graduated in medicine got to reading
lngerSol and Tom Paine and became
confused and doubtful in his belief.
lie wrote to Dr.. Carlisle Of his trou-
bles. The Doctor Immediately wrote
him these lines: Don't waste time
lighting the fogs and misis Go up
higher and live above them.' answer
ing him more fully later.
DR.. Carlisle was great and good
ana nob!, but did not seem to real