158 LIFE AND WORK OF DR. A. A. MURPHREE


 "HIS SPIRIT WILL LONG LINGER"

ZI GREAT man like a great painting needs perspective. We are too
 close to estimate justly his achievements. In addition the multi-
tudinous details of daily intimacy, as well as our profound personal
sorrow, blur our vision. It will take time for the trivial and the in-
cidental to disappear and reveal true outlines and discernments.
 But even in the haqe of present sorrows some marks are so out-
standing that they compel recognition.
 Dr. Murphree had personality. He had poise gained by a rich
and varied experience in the evaluation of large and vital interests.
Men grow large by the assimilation of great needs, great ideals and
great objectives.
 Dr. Murphree died while he was still growing and this growth was
not merely objective in the sense of perceiving coming needs and
marshalling the forces at his command to meet those needs-it was
subjective as well; an inner growth, a new and rich appreciation of
life itself, its unfolding to new levels, its demand for fresh and cour-
ageous adjustments, its everxpanding mental horizons and its pro-
found sensitivity to new channels of expression.
 And with this inner growth came a ripeness, a mellowness of
character whose essential expression was kindliness-a subtle sym-
pathy with the imperfect, a large-mindedness that could respond to
views and tendencies largely at variance with those that had moulded
his earlier life.
 And these, with many other fine traits, perfected his judgments.
He seldom missed the mark. With a fine and noble loyalty to the
past he combined an intuitive and almost prophetic understanding
of the forces that are now moulding the future and to these he gave
an ever-increasing consideration.
 His spirit will long linger over these halls and we shall see more
of him in the future than we did in the past.


-H. O. ENWALL.