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ciated the opportunity, and made the most of it. Hard, conscientious application to study soon won him a place in the front rank of his class, and he held that place. He mastered his work for its own sake, happy in the consciousness that it was well done. He sought no other reward. And so, when his instructors conferred upon him the highest honors in their gift, he was not in the least spoiled, but continued the same frank, open, unaffected fellow as before; no one envied him—many were more pleased than he at his success.
Now, after one short year of active service, he is gone. We shall sorely miss his cheerful, kindly, noble presence. He never sought to attract attention to himself, and yet, in his simple, straight forward, honest way, he has impressed himself clearly and indelibly upon the memory of all who knew him. Through his earnest devotion to his work, his sincerity of purpose, his purity of life, his respect and appreciation for those about him, he has built up an influence for good which lives and endures. Those who knew him, loved him, and cherish the remembrance of his bright example as an inspiration to lead better lives. In long years he could have earned no better praise.
To the members of the Lecture Bureau, who have worked so zealously to bring about the successful issue which seems now well assured, the students owe a great debt of thanks. And they have acknowledged it by their patronage of the course. There could be no hesitation about paying seventeen cents to hear Ovide Musin; the only problem was to raise the seventeen cents. Those who were unfortunate enough to miss the first entertainment can still do no better than to buy a course tickets. The remainder of the course will be worth several times one dollar.
More Letters from Pupils of Prof. Robinson
Thank you for letting me say one word about my dear old friend, Professor Robinson. He was my instructor in our University many years ago, and later my colleague, and in all that time his kindness, his scholarship, his simple steadfastness, his sincerity and his patience were to me great aids. The profit of what I had from him has served me since I went away. I may not speak now of personal matters, but I may say that here, far away, where, in the often met prejudices against the west, the University of Kansas is a mere name and sometimes a name to be sneered at, the testimony that such a man as he was serving at the task-mill daily, taking the small wages, holding the precarious position and doing it all with that sweet serenity that made his life a blessing, won unexpected hearings for our institution. His welcome when I went back was always one of the best parts of the going back. How he set out the books and pictures and casts that had come in since I was last there! How sympathetically he touched them! Then the Latin jokes between the more serious talks! It is owing to his tenacity to the idea of beauty for its own sake, and the barrenness of life without beauty, that the University has today the incipience of a museum. KATE STEVENS,'75.
While but few of the instructors who were in the University during the years I studied there are there now, it is a source of great comfort to recall my association with them. Death has taken Gen. Frazer, Prof. Bardwell, Prof. Smith and Prof. Robinson from among us, but their influence for good remains with those who knew them as faithful instructors.
While the death of Professor Robinson comes with a heavier stroke, perhaps, upon those students who are at present connected with the University, and who would be under his immediate care and instruction, yet there is a loss felt in his death by those who knew him first many years ago that carries with it a sense of grief those who have but recently known him cannot realize.