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death, but he was reached by telegraph and returned to the University
City late Tuesday night.
 Of Dr. Murphree, James R. Boyd, Jr., graduate manager of
athletics for several years, said: "Dr. Murphree was always an in-
spiration to our football team. The boys loved him and in his pass-
ing a great loss is keenly felt. Honor before victory was the desire
he wished instilled in Florida's athletic teams; and I believe that the
fans of the South will agree that his spirit and teachings have long
been exemplified in our teams."
 Each and every member of the department of athletics is mourn-


ing the loss of its great friend.
 -ATHLETIC NEWS BUREAU.

 PRESIDENT MURPHREE
r LTHOUCH Albert Alexander Murphre is dead, he has left two
 permanent and ever living monuments to his work in the Uni-
versity of Florida, where he had been president since 1909, and the
Florida State College for Women, of which he was the head for four
years preceding 1909.
 When one thinks of the University of Florida, the same thought
carries the name of President Murphree. He came to Florida in
1895 as professor of mathematics at the Florida State College, and two
years later became its president. In succeeding years the educational


forces of Florida were concentrated at Tallahassee in the Florida
State College for Women, and at Gainesville, which until very re-
cently has had only men students.
 From the jumble which constituted Florida's institutions of
higher learning, these two splendid universities have come, and
both must pay tribute to President Murphree as the author of much
of their sound foundation and later upbuilding. Particularly has
this been true of the University of Florida, now ranking as one
of the finest universities in the South. Here President Murphree
gave unstintedly of himself in bringing the boys of this and neigh-
boring states onto the campus, and has unceasingly waged the fight
for more funds for buildings and teachers against a succession of
legislators which until lately regarded the eighth grade as the pinacle
of all learning.
 President Murphree was not the pedant by any means. He was
a scholar, in truth, but he looked and acted like a successful banker,


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