TRIBUTES FROM ASSOCIATES AND FRIENDS


A FRIEND IS GONE.


N THE death of Dr. Murphree we feel a keen sense of loss.


Above


S all, we feel the loss of a friend, since it is in this aspect that we
always think of Dr. Murphree. We entertained a sincere affection
for him and he led us to believe that he had a similar feeling toward
us. We also feel that our community and our state have lost a great
leader in all that has stood for constructive uplift and progress. We
believe that his good influence will remain with us long after his
death, and we think that the best way in which we can revere his
memory is to stand for the same things that he stood for, and to strive
for the further upbuilding of the institution to which he devoted his
life and of the state to which he contributed so much.
 -JOHN R. BENTON.

 THE STUDENTS APPRECIATION
<21 1HEN the announcement was made on the morning of the 20th
HIi of Deember, that Dr. Murphree was dead, the heart of
Gainesville-nay, the heart of the state well-nigh stopped.
 Could it be true? Could he be gone?
 A great storm sweeps the land and it is devastated. In a short
time, readjustment comes and no trace of the catastrophe is left. An
earthquake splits the earth; great buildings tobble from their founda-
tions and fall into the chasms. Soon a greater and more beautiful
city is built on the ruins.
 With us it is different He has been taken from us and no man
 can replace him.
 To be sure, the home will miss him; the loss there cannot be
 estimated.
 As an outstanding character in the church, not only of Gainesville
 but of the state and even of the nation, his influence can not be meas-
 ured. Surely here his place will be hard to fill.
 But it is on us, the student body of the University of Florida, that
 the blow falls heaviest. Ours is the greatest loss.
 We knew him. Those words mean much. Few student bodies
 know their presidents as we knew him. His understanding of the
 boys and the broad sympathy that he had for them explain the demo-
 cratic spirit that pervades our campus today.
 It has been said that in no other university in our nation do the
 students have access to the office of the president. To him the boys