CHAPTER TWELVE
 DR. A. A. MURPHREE'S GREATEST MONUMENT
 Build thee more stately mansions, 0 my soul,
 As the swift seasons roll!
 Leave they low-vaulted past!
 Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
 Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
 Till thou at length art free,
 Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
 -OuIV WENDELL HOLMES.

 A. A. MURPHREE'S everlasting monument! A
 great educational institution--one that had grown
 as no other American University had grown in less
 than a score of years, and was attracting attention
from administrators of education all over the United States.
It is needless to point out that the rapidity with which the state
of Florida developed along all lines during those years since
Dr. Murphree took charge of the University of Florida con-
tributed greatly to the growth of the institution. But this does
not detract from the glory that is Dr. Murphree's for keeping
the University of Florida abreast of this growth, anticipating
needs with a quick and sure understanding, fighting for appro-
priations with a will and tenacity that proved his power to lead.
 The great commencement of 1927 showed that a high peak
of accomplishment had been attained in the administration of
the University of Florida. The enrollment of the fall of 1927
was awaited with the feeling that the critical test of the insti-
tution was at hand, to prove the permanency of that growth
and the ability of the University to carry on under the weight
of all that that growth implied.
 When the enrollment began in those early days of Septem-
ber Dr. Murphree was at hand, greeting the returned students
and the new-comers, and grasping the hands of each one of
the faculty from newest instructor to the veteran deans with a
smile and an exultant word expressive of the joy that was his
that the University faced its greatest year.