The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-11-13
THE UNIVERSITY
Of ILLINOIS
PAYS LAST RESPECTS TO BE-
LOVED SON-DR. CYRIL G.
HOPKINS LAID TO REST
GREAT N SERVICE OF HIS FELuOW-MEN
Former Graduate and Instructor OF
State College Became World
Famed Scientist.

The following account of the last
sad rites and the tribute paid to
the memory of DR.. Hopkins by the
institution in which he had labored
so long and faithfully is taken from
the Daily Illini:
Busy Illinois paused yesterday to
pay the tribute of a great institution
to one of it's greatest sons.
Draped in the American flag and
couched in a maze of ferns and flow-
ers the casket bearing the body of
Prof. Cyril G.. Hopkins, rested in state
before the c~onvocation of University
people assembled in common testi-
mony of the man and his deeds.
I. 1t is unlikely that the University
has ever expressed itself more i'm
pressively and with more solemn de-
yotion than it did in the ritual SER
vices held in the auditorium yesterday
afternoon. Touched by a mutual loss.
sober faculty colleagues Of the man,
undergraduates and co-labOrers, all
bowed in common reverence to the
memory of Professor Hopkins, world
famous scientist and philanthropist,
a gigantic figure who devoted his life
to t e cause of posterity and whose
last master accomplishment was the
rescue of famishi.Ag Greece.
Dean Eugene Davenport, close friend
OF Professor Hopkins, associate-work
er in the field of science, Acting-Prest
len David Kinley, Rev. S. E. Fisher
of the University Christian church,
and a representative of the Red Cross,
the organization for which Professor
Hopkins spent his last full measure,
bespoke the sentiments of the vast
following.
Characterizing him as great in the
service Of his fellow-men,' President
Kinley deplored the loss as that of "a
great man, a great scientist, a great
citizen and a great %neighbor.
He died in the line of duty" said
President Kinley. 'The world has SO
long beer accustomed to associate
greatness with power that it finds 1t
exceedingly difficult to associate it
with service. Professor Hopkins was
great in service"
Dean Davenport in a brief outline of
Professor Hopkins mighty accomplish
ments declared that "his contribution
as a scientist to the world may be de
scribed as having secured the pros
perity and comfort of the state Of Hi
nois for centuries to come" Reference
in this statement was made to the in
valuable discoveries of Professor Hop
kins in his lifelong research work in
soil fertility.
at is not enough to say that he was
the worlds foremost authority on soil
fertility asserted Dean Davenport.
"There was no second, no third, no
fourth. He was worth millions of dol
lars to the state"
Recalling Professor Hopkins efforts
in the present world struggle, Dean
Davenport said, "He took the war very
personally, felt very deeply it's serious
ness and was almost unconsolable be-
cause he could not engage in the ac-
tive fighting. Then came this oppor-
tunity, far greater, and he took it."
President Kinley in the course Of
his address, likened Professor Hopkins
to "a giant tree on the crest of the
mountain ridge, which the lightning
has struck down and left a gap that
will not be filled in our generation or
the next"
Professor Hopkins was e~ulogized for
his humanitarian project in Greece.
SIS it not a most remarkable thing"
commented President Kinley, that
Greece, the classic land of antiquity,
Greece renowned in sons and story,
the Greece of Xenophon and Pericles
and Socrates and the long line of 9TH
er great men to whom the world for
centuries has looked up for inspir-
alton and guidance, should have called
upon the new civilization of the west
for help in her distress? We sent her
our best for her need-Professor Hop
kins."
Opening the musical services of the
%convocatiop with an impressive entry
of the vested choir of sixteen voices
and a prelude with Lloyd Morey at
the organ, the choir in other num-
bers sang, Lead Kindly Light" and
abide With Me-"
Pallbearers were the heads of the
divisions of the department of agron-
omy of which Professor Hopkins had
been in charge. The bearers were:
DR.. L. H. Smith, Prof. j. G. Mosier,
DR.. w. l.. Burlison. DR.. Robert Stew
art, DR.. A. L. Whiting, and Prof. M.
e. Jahr. .
Phi Lambda Epsilon, honorary chem
ical fraternity Of which Professor
Hopkins was an honorary member. at
tended the services In a body. Forty
members were present.