SUCCESS- AND THE SUDDEN CALL 15

 not find in the wide world a finer spirit, a purer heart, a nobler
 soul, than was Dr. Albert A. Murphree."
 Among the many editorials expressing regret on the suds
 den passing of President Murphree and eulogizing his life of
 service, appeared an article in the St. Augustine Record by
 the editor of that paper, Herbert Felkel, an alumnus of the
 University of Florida and a former student at the Florida
 State College when Dr. Murphree was president there. The
 editorial follows:
 "Dr. Murphree was spoken of repeatedly for Governor of
 Florida and was the announced choice of William Jennings
 Bryan in the Democratic convention of 1924, but the educator
 consistently declined to permit his name to be placed in nom-
 ination for any political post. His was as important work as
 that of the Governor. His influence was probably wider, with
 tremendous opportunities for character building in young men
 at the formative age.
 "This writer is one of a thousand men now treading along
 Florida's business and professional paths whose lives were
 touched by Dr. Murphree's and influenced for good by that
 contact. For he had personality and magnetism in a degree
 possessed by few men. He inspired college boys to higher
 motives. He believed that building ideals, courage, integrity
 into the makeup of young men was as important as the knowl-
 edge gained from their books. His vitality and strength car-
 ried his faculty along with him to better things and finer prin-
 ciples. For 'Doc' Murphree, as the boys called him, was an
 organizer of no mean ability. He sustained morale in all
 those who worked with him and for him. He had those rare
 qualities that constitute a successful college president, and he
 had built up a University for Florida that he lived to see take
 the highest rank among similar institutions of learning
 throughout America.
 "The Gainesville campus is sad today, but probably no
more so than spots throughout the whole of the state. Over
many a law office and newspaper plant, over many a shop and
store, over many a draftsman's board, and in scores of farms
and groves today there is a shadow. Men leave college and
go out into the diverging walks of the world where new friends