A MAN WITH A MEMORY

Under this caption a letter signed by "A Sometime Traveler" appeared in the HolyokeDaily Transcript last December. In its appreciation of Dean Emeritus Emerson and of his qualities of friendliness and universal interest it is in such entire agreement with the opinion held by Mr. Emerson's many friends that it is in part copied here:

December 1 Dean Emeritus Charles Franklin Emerson of Dartmouth College passed away at 79.

He prepared for college at Westford Academy, Westford, under John D. Long, later governor of Massachusetts and Secretary of the Navy in McKinley's cabinet. He entered Dartmouth College in 1865 with conditions in Greek; he so applied himself that the faculty assigned to him the Greek oration, the greatest compliment paid him during his college course; he graduated in 1868. The Boston Herald stated that he "had a wonderful memory" and I am sure it was correct.

My interest in Prof. Emerson and my sureness as to his memory dates back to April, 1914; on April 4th, a little band of "globe trotters," after spending several weeks in Palestine and all along, steamed from Beirut, Syria, for the Island of Rhodes, Smyrna, through the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmora to Constantinople; we retraced our steps through the Aegean Sea to the Piraeus and Athens; seated at table with me, on the steamer, were President Moore of the Commissioners of Foreign Missions and Prof, and Mrs. Emerson; I saw much of these interesting people; we had group pictures taken on the Areopagus (Mars Hill), where Paul made his most remarkable statement as to the "Unknown God." While standing on the Poyx, in sight of Mars Hill and of the Acropolis, Prof. Emerson recited in Greek a remarkable oration; were my eyes closed, I might have imagined that I was listening to the shade of Demosthenes, Pericles, Sophocles or Socrates, but when I asked Prof. Emerson what he had been reciting he replied: "My Greek oration given in Dartmouth when a Junior."