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narrative, but in my memory both the Professor's keen enjoyment and amusement and the embarrassment of the surprised "juvenes," of whom he discoursed, are very vivid.
ETHEL B. ALLEN, '82.
During the greater portion of my college course I was under the instruction of Prof. Robinson and I do not remember ever to have heard him speak a single unkind or inconsiderate word. Even criticism and censure, when they came from him, always came tempered with a genial kindliness. He was a superior instructor in the learning of the books, but he was still greater as a teacher of uprightness and courtesy and generous consideration. The passing away of such men is always a shock to the community in which they lived, and when that community happens to be a community of young men and young women, it is an irreparable calamity. R.D.BROWN,'92.
Professor Robinson's work was well and faithfully done. He leaves a record which will live as long as there shall be a University of Kansas. The old students will ever remember the quiet humor and the good fellowship which he continually extended towards his pupils.
One by one the ties which closely bind us to the University are being severed. The old student, in Prof. Robinson's death, loses a staunch friend and faithful adviser. With his work ended, it seems as if a chapter of our own college life had indeed ended. A few more such changes and the old volume will be closed.
SCOTT HOPKINS, '81.
I am glad to be asked to contribute to your memorial edition in honor of our dear old teacher, Professor Robinson. He was an accessible, affable, genial man, to whom one spoke freely without arriere pensee. He was never envious of the good fortune of others, and was always sympathetic in their adversity. Many of my University acquaintances, after they have left the school and state, have, like myself, kept up their acquaintance with the school and interest in it largely through Professor Robinson. He was a true friend himself and he made true friends in return. I know of no higher praise to speak of any man.
J. A. WICKERSHAM,'76.
The pleasantest recollections I have of the very pleasant seven years spent in the halls of K. S. U., are connected with Prof. Robinson. I never think of those old days without seeing again his strong, smiling face, the twinkling eyes that knew how to be stern yet never were. His strongest faculty, as it seemed to me, was
his ability to instil into the minds of his students the same love for his favorite study as inspired his own work. I know that for myself recitation to him was a thorough enjoyment, from "amo, amas, amat" down to the last day; and this I attribute entirely to him, for my recollections of pleasure in other class-rooms are somewhat blurred.
It is fitting that the highest tribute should be paid to his memory; he gave the best years of a good life to the upbuilding of the Alma Mater we all love; he is a living inspiration to hundreds of young men and women who are fortunate enough to have known him.
He is gone and gone with him half the enjoyment with which I always look forward to a visit to the old halls.
SOLON T. WILLIAMS,'80.
There is nothing that stands out more clearly in the memory of my student life than my first attendance in his lecture room. A very meek and humble "Junior Prep," I crowded into the room with others of my class for the first lesson in Latin, expecting nothing more than a mere assignment of study for the following day. But when the mixed and (it must be confessed) somewhat motley throng of youthful aspirants for collegiate learning was seated, he began talking to us about our work and its object; he told us of the power and beauty of the "City of the Seven Hills," of the greatness of the Roman people, of their decline and fall, of their marvelous impression on the laws and customs of the civilized world, of the value and profit to be derived from an accurate knowledge of this great people, and in conclusion he told us that the surest means to attain that knowledge was through the study of their language and literature. The things which he said then, though not new, and doubtless reiterated many times before and since, fell on receptive and attentive minds, and for us all they gave life to the dry bones of a dead language and robed them in the garb of meaning and instruction. I feel that I owe much to that brief talk; it gave an impetus to study and dignified it with a purpose. It gave me also admiration for him as a professor, respect for him as a man.
CYRUS CRANE, '87.