The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-16
MANY PAY TRIBUTE
TO LATE LIBRARIAN
SERVICES IN MEMORY OF O. H. ny
LAND AT RICHMOND
COLLEGE.
READ RESOLUTIONS
J. TAYLOR ELLYsoN PRESENTS Pa
PER ADOPTED ny BOARD OF
TRUsTEES-DR. PITT THE
CHIEF SPEAKER.

IN commemoration OF tho life and
services Of DIR. Charles Hill Ryland.
late librarian OF Richmond College.
who died last summer. appropriate
exercises were held yesterday after
noon in the auditorium of the college
chapel at westhampton. In spite OF
the Indictment weather . fair crowd.
composed Of fAculty. students. alumni
and . number Of his other admirers
attended the exercises and paid tri-
butte to his memory.
The services opened with tahe sing
ing OF How Firm Foundation"
after which DR.. r. w. Boatwright,
president Of the college presented Rev.
Carter A. Jenkens, pastor of Calvary
Baptist Church, who led the opening
prayer.
Brief addresses were then delivered
by Lieutenant Governor j. Taylor
Eulyson, President Boatwright, 9. +.
Terrell and DR.. r. H. Pitt, editor Of
the Religious Herald. Following his
talk Governor Ellyson presented the
resolutions recently adopted by the
board Of trustees Of the college.
AA0AEC EhOut sPCuACAS.
President Boatwright, representing
the faculty, eulogized DR.. Ryiand.
telling how much good they had de-
rived from the contact with him, and
how he had lent his assistance to
every movement for Inc betterment
Of the institution.
The student body was represented
by Mr.. Terrell who told of the re-
lationship Of DIR. Ryland to the stu
In 1x.v4 Ex,J nd
dress, telling how DR. Ryland had
lifted up many students from the
depths OF announcement
DIR. Pitt. the principal speaker OF
the evening, devoted most of his time
To historical sketch of DR. Ryland's
life. tracing his ancestry back to n
seventeenth century pastor Of North
cumberland Baptist Church In Eng
land. In speaking OF DIR. Ryland's
good qualities. DIR. Pitt said:
Il have known Of many men who
judged both their friends and them.
selves harshly. I have known OF men
who Judged their friends harsaly and
themselves leniently. and have
known of stIll others who were In
capable OF judging either their friends
o. themselves. but there were only
few who were ca pable OF holding
themselves strictly 10 account for their
GNtUs. Out still tlQEF tsst ETfiSiAhFc Va
their friends leniently. One OF these
few was DIR. Ryla :"
Dr. Rysand became connected with
Richmond College in 1874 and from
that time Until his death last August
he remained with the institution as
financial secretary and librarian.
The Resolutions.
Following are the resolutions adopt
ca by the board o. trustees and read
BY Lieutenant Governor Ellyson:
We are called upon to mourn the
death of DR.. Charles II. Ryland who
fer - many wears served with singular
fidelity as financial secretary and
treasurer. and who was one OF the
most honored and useful members
on the board of trustees of Richmond
College.
II is a great incentive to noble en-
deavnr to have ones life dedicated to
come lofty purpose and to be identi-
fed through a long series OF years
with the uphuilding OF some great
enterprise. Such was the inspiration
and such was the privilege of DIR.
Charles II. Ryiand. who in the very
strength OF his manhood was called
to labor for Richmond College, and
to promote whose interest, he gave
nearly four decades Of as loving and
rs loyal devotion as has ever been
bestowed by any son upon his beloved
alma mater.
II the measure of our usefulness is
to be determined by the value OF the
services we render In The position to
which in Gods providence we are
called to work. then DR.. Ryland
should always have a first place in
our grateful recollection, for surely
no man among us was in the noblest
sense so ready to be the servant of
all. He had in a most charming de-
gree a sense OF personal ownership
in all things for the care OF which
he was responsible. What belonged
to the college was as jealousy ana
sacredly guarded as though 1t. had
been his own.
There was no problem in our col
lege life so serious that he was not
ready to help solve u, and no student
however humble that ever needed his
loving sympathy and wise counsel