Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-27
The Funeral, "Wednesday, Of
Late Prof. H. |, Chapman,
Eloquent Address by President
Hyde Of BOHtOin College.
All Business Suspended in Bruins
wick During Hour of Funeral.

II uneral services Of the late PROF.
Henry Leland Chapman were held at
go, Wednesday afternoon, in the
First Parish congregational church.
The church was packed to the doors
The floral tributes were beautiful.
Music was rendered by Prof, Wass,
and as the crowd left the church he
played Schamanns funeral march.
The exercises were conducted by Rev
John Hastings Qufnt, assisted by
President William Dewitt Hyde who
delivered the address.
Upon leaving the church the pro-
eession, headed by the faculty and the
college students arranged in the order
of their classes, went to Pine Grove
cemetery, the BoWdoin cemetery,
where commitment services were per-
formed by Rev. Quint The active
bearers Were members of the Alpha
Delta Phi fraternity of which Prof
Chapman was a member. They were,
Charles r. Bull. Verd r. Leavitt,
james Philoon and Fred Wiggin, al
eff 1913, and George Z. Eaton, Arthur
L. Pratt, Earle $. Thompson and Rob
ert Weatherill, all of 1914.
All college exercises We're omitted
during the afternoon, and all business
was suspended in Brunswick during
the hours of the funeral
In his address President Hyde spoke
as follows
No words can heighten the esteem
or deepen the affection we all feel for
Professor Chapman, Any attempt to
add would but substract. Yet while
he needs no tribute we can pay. w
need to learn a lesson he can teach.
He was more admired and loved
than any man in our college and com
munity. What was there about him
that won this universal admiration
and affection? To answer, his era-
cious manner his sweet nature his
charming personality" is but to hide
the light OF his life behind vague
phrases. So hidden it is largely lost
For these qualities cannot be copied
directly. The only way to transfer
them from one life to another is 10
discover and transplant their root
The root eff Prof ehapmans char
aeter was the Wilderness of the man
Most of US are but half II W.
have spiritual aspirations, they are
without fit secular expression. That
is one kind Of haif-man. or else if
| we are effective in sports and studies
and practical affairs, we have no
deep spiritual purpose out of which
they spring, and by which they are
held together That is the other kind
of haIf-man. Professor Chapman was
a whole man; his spiritual purpose fit
~ expressed in secular activity; his
secular and social activity firmly
united to his spiritual purpose; SO that
you could not see any seam or gap
whore the one left off and the other
began.
Il was SO in his student DAYS. Som
men can play ball, or write graceful
verse, or edit a humorous puo44,.4,4..,.
Other men can lead in religious life
and work. OF late years the union OF
these two sides of life in the same
person is becoming common. We
understand that the man who does
either alone is only half-man. t1I,s
ears ago the union of these two sides
n the same person was far more rare.
rhc man who specialized in either the
secular or the spiritual was hardly sX-
Jected To be strong on the other side.
Professor Chapman specialized in
10Th or rather united them in one, as
yur strongest college men do today.
Re was the Senior editor of the Bugle,
class odist and poet pitcher of the
nine, and president of the Praying
Circle, the predecessor of the present
christian Association.
The same difference between the half
man and the whole man comes out in
mature practical life There are half
men Who find it easier to pray than to
work. who are more adept in the worship
Of God than in the service of society or
the help of their fellow-men. There are
other half-men who plunge effectively in.
to business, politics, society, philanthropy.
without any deep, strong. central pur-
pose to make these pursuits express the
Justice the kindness, ana the love OF
God. Professor Chapman was Il Jealous
and devout deacon of the church. and
the impartial and courteous moderator Of
the town meeting. out OF his daily
prayer and weekly worship in the house
of God came a smile for every little child
upon the street; tenderness in the home
circle, geniality in society fidelity as
chairman Of the school committee; trus-
lee OF tie l3AlSoE SEMINARY ana the SldlG
Normal schools; devotion to the town
library the town aud State historical So
cieties, and the Village Improvement AS
sociation; enthusiasm in teaching his fav-
orite books and authors, which in spite
of failing health he chung to till the very
end. How inspiringly he taught CHANGED
to see some years ago. Unexpected and
unannounced | came quietly upon two
Bowdoin undergraduates in the church,
yard at Grassmere. They were not liter
AIRY lights; simply ordinary, rolicking
Bowdoin boys. Yet they were standing
silent, with bowed and uncovered heads
in the attitude of deepest reverence. by
the grave of William Wordsworth nj
was no less a tribute to the teacher than
to the poet. To induce that mood in
young men, after the course had been
given and the examination passed is to-
teach English literature to good and last
ing purpose. His own beautiful English
style. the finished force o. all he said
and did flowed quietly, inevitably from q
mind and heart in rhythmic harmony
with Gods truth and beauty which he
was ever seeking to portray. The warmth