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itself a splendid attainment, and that without its realization
the fullness of life could not be reached.
 This attitude helps explain his concept of the meaning of
education. To this director of the destinies of young people
an education was not an application from without but a growth
from within. He wanted that growth to center around the
curricula, and he never lost sight of the fact, nor permitted
his associates to lose sight of the fact, that the chief purpose
in coming to college is to study the books and master the
courses. But he encouraged the pursuit of every activity that
he felt could possibly supplement the prescribed work of his
students, and urged upon them the broader training that comes
from contact with numerous avenues of endeavor in college
life.
 The versatility of his own nature may have strengthened
this attitude. lie himself was a musician. Truly he felt that
he who could not appreciate music or at least make an attempt
to enjoy it was fit for reasonsn, strategems and spoils." He
led his students to find the cultural value of the artistic. He
read the stream of worthwhile books that issues constantly to
enrich current literature, and he felt that general reading had
a distinct place in the spare time of students. He was him-
self an athlete and a lover of all clean and manly sports, and
felt that student life was not complete without enjoyment of
athletic events. In fact, he frequently expressed himself as
desirous of working out a system whereby participation in
University athletics could be made general for all instead of
being more or less restricted to the favored few who attain
places on the teams.
 Dr. Murphree was always quick to recognize ability, and
 anxious to co-operate in finding avenues for its development
 and expression. This one thing alone would have made hun-
 dreds of young men everlastingly indebted to him, for the
 encouragement he gave them to bring out talents he could see
 to be promising frequently resulted in setting those to whom
 his encouragement had been given upon the highway of suc-
 cess, and in some instances fame and fortune.
 A few years ago, before the splendid chapel auditorium
 had been built, and the meetings of the student convocation