RESOLUTION OF THE FACULTY

Professor Emerson's connection with the College since his graduation, forty five years ago, has been of such an in- timate nature that few of the alumni probably realize that he has withdrawn from his active administrative work. His has been one of those rare cases in which a man has given the whole of his active life, to his college. Occupying various positions of responsibility in the College and in the life of the town, he has made his strong personality and sympathetic interest felt in all. The appreciation of the faculty for his years of service is recorded in the following resolution, passed at its first meeting of the current academic year:

"The retirement of Charles Franklin Emerson from active service in mouth College, a service in which he has been engaged as tutor, associate professor, professor, and dean for forty-five years, and which covers the whole period since his graduation from college, is an event that the faculty of the College recognize as of more than ordinary moment.

"Recalling his steadfast loyalty to what he believed to be the highest interests of the College in instruction and administration, his unwearied and successful labor in the varied positions which he successively occupied, and his never-failing 'sympathy with the students in all his intercourse with them, the faculty hereby put on record their high appreciation of his fidelity and devotion to duty, first in the class-room, and then, as the first dean of the College, in the.development of the work of that office, and extend to him their heartfelt wish that he may have many years in which to enjoy his well-earned rest."