The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1917-09-27
By WILLIAM ANTHONY AERY.

ment and victory.
By WILLIAM ANTHONY AERY.
Hampton, Va.-Hollls 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 all men, regardless of
class or race, new conception of edu-
cation, education for life."
The funeral service, simple and i'm
presslve, which was held Wednesday,
lug. :, In the Hampton Institute Me-
mortal church and In the small school
cemetery, in memory of the life and
work of DR.. Frissell, brought together
on the lower peninsula of Virginia hun
dreds upon hundreds of thoughtful
white and cOlored people, who paid
statesmen educators.
DR.. Motions Tribute.
DR.. Robert Il. Motion, Hampton for
mer commandant, present principal of
Tuskegee institute, delivered force
full address on DR.. Frissell's 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 more patient more simple,
more earnest, a more unselfish. a
more Christlike character than DR..
trissen. He was able, as no man |
have ever known, to hide himself alb
solutely behind the great cause for
which he worked. He thought nothing
about himself, but he thought always
Of how he could serve.
THE keynote of DR.. Frissells life
was the note of service to ones race,
ones country. ones God. 1t was not
narrowed down to one or two races,
but 1t included the human race-man-
kind wherever there was a chance to
serve. DR.. Frissell's memory will al
ways be revered by the millions of
Negroes whom he helped and by mil
lions Of white people, north and south,
through whom he served and by thou
sands of Indians for whom he worked.
Life of Victory.
I'VE should thank God for the great
victory which is Dr. Frisselrs and
which is ours-the victory over preju-
dice, over selishness, 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 unselfish 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.. Frissel himself
offered less than two years ago at the
funeral service of DR.. Booker T. Wash
ington.
Thanks be to God. who giveth us the
victory" 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.
The Hampton school sang with rare
rnI lot FOIL
-"Swing Low. Sweet Chariot" and
MY Lord, What a Morning" which
were dear to the heart of Hampton's
principal
The Rev. Laurence Fenninger read
appropriate selections from the Scrip
lures, and the Rev. DIR. 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
diets, the girl students, the funeral car,
the flower bearers. officers or Battery
d. Virginia field artillery and hundreds
OF Or. Frissells friends troll far and
near.
The service at the grave included the
commitment of the body by the Rev.
Herbert r. turner. prayer by the Rev.
Laurence Fenninger and the singing OF
my Faith Looks Up to Thee" Taps"
was sounded by Hampton's bandmas-
ter. and again the battalion moved to
the Quickened step OF martial music.
Six Fowlers In Fifteenth Regiment