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Kansas University Weekly.
On the Late Death of D. H. R.
"I will have," said the King of Heaven,
"A Preceptor, worthy and wise,"
And leaving the duties about Him,
On Oread fastened His eyes.
He summoned together our masters,
Each worthy himself to be blest;
Nor staid He one moment for counsel,
But hastened away with—the best.
Prof. Raymond.
The University has been honored by a visit from Prof. Raymond of Princeton College. Prof. Raymond is undoubtedly one of the very best known among Living American teachers of Elocution and Aesthetics and is the author of a number of text books on Elocution that are standard authorities on the subject. He holds the chair of Aesthetics at Princeton and ranks very high as an art critic.
In September of 1858 while both Chancellor Snow and Prof. Raymond were on their way to enter the Freshman class of Williams College they made each others acquaintance while make a long stage ride together. Throughout their college course Chan. Snow and Prof. Raymond were intimate friends and since their graduation in the class of '62, they have continued their acquaintance.
Prof. Raymond was called to Chicago on business and was invited by the Chancellor to pay him a visit and subsequently Prof. Raymond very kindly offered to deliver a course of lectures to the students of the University. Prof. Raymond wishing both to renew his acquaintance with his old school mate and to visit the University of Kansas accepted the invitation. The general subject of Prof. Raymond's lectures was "Art and Elocution." The lectures were all well attended and were greatly enjoyed by all who heard them. In the introduction to his first lecture Prof. Raymond referred in very complimentary terms to Chan. Snow, Prof. Hopkins and Hector Cowan, the three graduates of Princeton College on the faculty of the University and in reference to our faculty as a whole, said that the faculty of the University of Kansas compared very favorable with that of
any eastern college or university. Prof. Raymond is said to be one of few artists who have no words to say against others in the same profession.
Edward I. O'Bryon.
Upon Sunday morning, October 27th, at his home on Tennessee street, died Edward O'Bryon. He had been ill for more than a month with typhoid fever, which had attacked him almost at the beginning of his work as principal of the Newton high school in this state. He made an attempt to continue his teaching, but was soon obliged to put himself under medical treatment in Newton Hospital. His friends at home, however, felt that he should have the advantage of more constant and careful attendance, and he came to his father's house in this city. His very serious danger was at first hardly realized; and when it was realized, the disease had taken so firm a hold upon his whole system that medical skill was powerless to save him. After one strong effort for life, he seemed to give up the struggle; and in a few days the end came.
The story of Mr. O'Bryon's life is brief. Born, November 3d, 1872, near Sibley, Kansas; prepared for the University at Vinland high school; graduated from the University with the class of 1894; made instructor in Horton high school for one year; elected to the principalship of Newton high school;—these are the simple facts of the story.
Mr. O'Bryon's course in the University was, like the rest of his work, characterized by unusual faithfulness in study and earnestness in thought. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, election to which is made on the basis of scholarship. He belonged also to the Phi Delta Theta fraternity; and his views on fraternity matters were delightfully free from all narrowness of spirit. Before his fellow students he lived a life above reproach; a life remarkable for its kindliness and its dignity.
But Edward O'Bryon was more than this. To those who knew him more intimately, he revealed a real spiritual earnestness, a sympathy with all that is noble and pure, that en-