The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-09-01
HE.L|VES IN SOULS
He INFLUENCED
FrisseII Gone, but His Work
TeStifieS For Him.
TRIBUTES TO HIS MEMORY
Dr.. Motion and Others Tell at Hamp-
tons Services How Late Head of In
stitute Strove to Serve Others-His
Was Truly a Career of Accomplish
ment and Victory.
BY WILLIAM ANTHONY AERY.

ment and Victory.
By WILLIAM ANTHONY AERY.
Hampton, Va.-Hollis Burke Frissell,
beloved principal Of Hampton institute
for nearly twenty-five years, and Sam
uel Chapman Armstrong, his soldierly
predecessor, now rest side by side, as
once they loyalty worked by day ana
by night to give oil men, regardless of
class or race, new conception of edu-
cation, education for life
The funeral service, simple and i'm
pressive, which was held Wednesday,
Aug. q, Ia the Hampton Institute Me-
mortal church and in the small school
work of DR.. Frissell, brought together
on the lower peninsula of Virginia hun
dreds upon hundreds Of thoughtful
white and colored people, who paid
tribute to one of Americas leading
statesmen educators.
Dr.. Motions Tribute.
DR.. Robert r. Motion, Hampton for
mer commandant, present principal Of
Tuskegee institute, delivered force
full address OH DR.. Frissells service to
the nation. DR.. Motion said: !.
'"This life which has gone out from
US so recently is today manifesting it.
self in the acts and thoughts of other
lives, Of black men and red men and
men Of. the white race also. l have
never known and you have never
known a more patient, more simple,
q more earnest, more unSelfiSh,
more Christlike character than DR..
FrisselL He was able, as no man l
have ever known, to hide himself abb
solutely behind the great cause for
which he worked. He thought nothing
about himself, bit he thought always
of how he could serve.
"The keynote Of DR.. Frissell's life
was the note Of service to ones race.
ones country, ones God. 1t was not
narrowed down to one or two races,
kind wherever there was a chance to
serve. DR.. Frissell's memory will al
ways be revere1 by the millions of
Negroes whom he helped and by mil
lions Of white people, north and south.
through whom he served apd by thou
sands of Indians for whom he worked.
Life Of Victory.
I'VE should thank God for the great
victory which is DR.. Frissell's and
which is ours-the victory over preju-
dice, over selfishness, over littleness.
the victory Of patience, Of simplicity.
of life and Of service. May those who
are privileged to work for Hampton
always be controlled, whether as trus-
tees, teachers, students, graduates or
friends, by this spirit of unsel6sh serv-
ice to our fellow men,"
DR.. Thomas Jesse Jones. specialist
in the education of racial groups In
the United States bureau Of education,
Washington. d. c., formerly associate
chaplain at Hampton institute, read
the prayer which DR.. Frissell himself
offered less than two years ago ut the
funeral service Of DR.. Booker T. Wash
ington.
Thanks be to God. who giveth us the
victOry"-with these words DR.. Frissell
opened the service held in memory Of
HamptOn's most distinguished gradu-
ate. These words were repeated again
and again as an expression of DR.. Fris-
sells victorious life.
Favorite Hymns. 81.
The Hampton school sang with rare
feeling two Negro religious folk songs
Swing Low. Sweet Chariot" and
MY Lord. What a Morning" (which
were dear. 70 the heart of Hampton's
principal
The Rev. Laurence Fenninger read
appropriate selections from the Scrip.
lures. and the Rev. DR.. Herbert B.
: Turner offered the closing prayer at
the church service. Scores of floral
pieces covered the casket-mute wit
nesses of the affection Of white and
colored people. The flowers were car
ried from the church to the cemetery
by Hampton graduates.
The funeral procession was headed
by the well trained Hampton institute
band. Then followed the Hampton ca
Gets. the girl students. the funeral car,