New-York tribune., 1914-03-31
Dean of the N. Y. u. Med
iCal School Dies of
Scarlet Fever.
CHANCELLOR BROWN
PAYS HIM HIGH TRIBUTE
Was Prominent in tuberculosis
Work and Consulting Physician
to Many Hospitals.

Dr. EEbcrt lie feNre, flftN-slX years old,
dean Of the Medical College Of New York
University. president Of the Association
Of Anne .can Medical Colleges. and a con-
sultinc physician for number Of New
York hospitals. died Yesterday at his
home, No. 80 West I'D street, after an
Illness Of three days.
When Or. lie Fevre visited the Bellevue
Hospi.a Medical College Of New York
University on Friday he complained Of a
sore throat The malady from which he
died was diagnosed as scarlet fever
In 1859 Dr. lie Fevre was graduated
from New York University. He was a
member Of the American Medical Asso-
citation. visiting physician to Bellevue
Hospital, a consulting physician to the
Red Cross Hospital. the Beth Israel.H1s-
pital. the Nassau Hospital the Nyack
Hospital. the Mount Vernon Hospital tho
North Hudson Hospital and St Joseph's
Hospital
Ills work in connection with the Ma
tional Association for the Study and Pre-
venton Of Tuberculosis has greatly aided
in the work Of curbing that disease.
Chancellor Elmer =. Brown in an ad-
dress before the students in Gould Me-
mortal Auditorium Yesterday spoke of the
dean and Of his service TO the university
and to the world of medicine at large. He
said:
Il know of no man connected with any
Of our colleges whose death would have
been a greater loss to his own college and
10 the university at large than is that OF
Dean lie Fevre.
while receiving hardly more than
nominal salary for his university service,
he regularly returned half of that salary
to the university treasury and while re-
cevirg large fees for professional con-
situations, he took pleasure in giving
other equally valuable professional ser
vice entirely without charge
Chancellor Emeritus Henry NJ Mac
Cracken, in his tribute to Or. lie Fevre,
said:
"He lectured to his class last Thursday
on the very brink of his three days Of
mortal illness. He was not less eminent
i'm his practice than in his toll as a pro-
fessor.
The Nestor Of the faculty, Or. Joseph
d. Bryant, now seriously i'll, said to me
some years ago that the success Of their
medical teaching for decade was due
chiefly TO two factors-hrst, that they
made the best curriculum possible ana
taught their best, and second, that tley
had for dean Dr. Egbert lie Fevre.
In financial support Of his college he
was generous to a fault lie forgot him
self in serving his cause and in serving
humanity"
DR.. lie Fev-e was born in Raritan, y. j.
He was graduated from Rutgers College
in 1880. As an inferno he served in Belle
vue Hospital from 1853 to 1883. Other
degrees he attained were: Sc. D., Rutgers
1910: LIZ D.. New York University. 1910.
lie married Mrs. Helen Hasbrouck
Trotter Of New York December Il, 1889.
He was a fellow OF the New York
Academy Of Medicine; a member OF the
American Medical Association, the New
York Pathological Society, American
CIimatological Society and the National
Association for the Study and Prevention
of tuberculosis
Among the clubs OF which DR.. lie
Fevre was member were the city New
York Athletic. Automobile of America and
Thousand Island Yacht.
His funeral, which will be held at his
home this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock will
be strictly private. owing TO the character
Of the Illness
All exercises at the Medical College
were suspended yesterday.
At "A special meeting Of the faculty Of
the Medical College Of New York Univer-
sity. held last night, resolutions on the
death of Dr. lie Fevre were passed
Tribute was paid 10 his learning and
capacity for work 1t also was asserted
that the college had sustained a grievous
loss