TRIBUTES FROM ASSOCIATES AND FRIENDS 153

 THE CHRISTIAN EDUCATOR
^ HE name of Dr. Murphree will ever be linked with the cause of
U education, to which he dedicated his life. Among the builders
of the University of Florida, the name of Dr. Murphree stands first.
 It has been said that an institution is the lengthening shadow of a
great personality. If this be true, the University of Florida will
forever bear silent testimony to the greatness of his personality.
 He was not only zealous for the cause of education, but for the
cause of Christian education. In teaching and example, he exalted
honor above technical scholarship, and character above apparent
success.
 He was so loyal to the essentials of Christianity that he did not
 allow non-essentials to embarrass him in dealing with those whose
 creed did not coincide with his own. He was respected and honored
 by Jew as well as by Catholic and Protestant. In his thought there
 was no conflict between science and religion. His mind has pene-
 trated beneath the surface of thought down to the essentials where
 harmony prevails. In thought, in practice, in motive, he was Chris-
 tian, the Christian Educator. -L. D. LOWE.

 GREATNESS? THE LIFE OF DR. MURPHREE.
 UJr HO is a great man? The life of Albert Alexander Murphree,
 Utt cut off untimely by the hand of death on December 20,
 answers that question: He whose life expresses the ideal of service
 to others is truly great.
 Dr. Murphree was an educator. In education he followed the
 high aim of training young lives-their physical, mental, social and
 spiritual beings. In this high accomplishment he made a lasting
 contribution to this state.
 As president of the University of Florida Dr. Murphree had
 helped the institution grow from a mere handful to over 2,000 men;
 he had seen and directed the progress of the school in this growth
 and in the corresponding spirit and aims. He had become recognized
 as one of America's leading educational administrators. Honors,
 well merited and highly deserved, were coming his way. Truly, to
 our finite minds his passing seems untimely.
 This daily journal, in the city where this great man was a most
 loved citizen, where his life was making its greatest imprint, pauses
 to pay tribute to his memory, and to express its appreciation of the
 fact that a great life, though gone, leaves an immortal influence.
 -0. L ARMSTRONG.