"A Gentleman and a Scholar"

Considering the past month since the Christmas recess closed, no one event stands out as does the shocking news of the death of Professor Fred Parker Emery. In that sad death we undergraduates lost one of our best friends on the faculty. The Dartmouth editorially eulogized Professor Emery's life and influence in the College and among the student body so fittingly that, with your permission, we reprint it in full:

"With the death of Fred Parker Emery of the class of 1887, Dartmouth has lost a man who was, in the finest sense of the word, a gentleman and a scholar. During the years of his teaching career he lived the great ideal of the teacher who is the friend and guide, as well as the mentor, of his students. An eminent Shakesperian authority, he did not permit academic interests and dignity to interfere with a genially cultured human sympathy; preserving a wise and comprehensive understanding of men, he did not lose the freshness of a youthful viewpoint.

"There have been men in the history of Dartmouth whose pride it was to serve the institution they revered. Professor Emery was one of these. He was fortunate in being the finest example of the ideal he treasured. The College of future years will miss him sadly. There have been men not widely known in the world, but well loved by Dartmouth men, whose invisible influence has become a part of the great traditions of the College, whose lives are imbedded in the living Dartmouth, and who will not be forgotten while Dartmouth lives. Fred Emery has gone to join their number."