Text Appearing Before Image: incommen-surate do the cause and effect sometimes seem,that one author has likened the process to the dis-solving of an island by throwing a few liandfulsof crystals upon it. There was a trace of some-thing in President Harper which let loose power-ful affinities between men and their wealth, andled them to form new and unsellish affinities :which made soluble minds and hearts that hadnever before yielded to. high appeal. Ihis isnot demeaning his personal qualities : it is onlysaying that there was a trace of something addedto those qualities which can be analyzed and as-sessed and catalogued. Though President Harpers wisdom in certainaspects came out of the East, he was in spirit uWestlander. He did what seemed impossibleto do, anil what would have been impossible todo in the bonds of conventionalism and tradi-tionalism. He had freedom to follow the bestteachings of experience unliampered by prec-eilents. And he found great scholars and teach- PRESIDENT HARPER AND HIS LIFE IVORK. 17a Text Appearing After Image: THE LATE PRESIDENT WILLIAM RAIXEY HARPER. OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. (Born, July 20, 1856; died, January 10, 19U6.) 174 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF RE^IEIVS. ers who were eager to join liiin on that -battle-ground for new and living tliouglits, tlie meet-ing-place for the worlds contending forces. Heliad the love of struggle, but, better than this, liehad the genius for hard work. Yet he hadnever the mien of one who was consciously andanxiously bearing great burdens. He kept evera buoyant spirit and a cheerful face. Once he defined the ;iniversity as the prophetof democracy. And himself the incai-nation ofthe spirit and purpose of his own university, hestood upon oi;r western horizon a prophet—aprophet, worthy to have place with those prophetsof the elder day whose scriptures he so diligentlysearched. The great teacher is always the greatprophet in that he foreordains by his teaching,ihe prophetic power of this man was heightened,multiplied, by his assembling about him hundred
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