TRIBUTES FROM THE PRESS


FLORIDA'S GREAT LOSS IN THE DEATH OF DR. MURPHREE
F r THE good that a man does lives after him, then Albert Alexander
 Murphree has sown a field of usefulness that will prove a bless-
ing to thousands and bring forth good fruit for generations to come.
 Blazing a pathway for uninspired feet to follow and that pathway,
by the multitude of wayfarers, has grown into a broad and paved
highway in all that tends to make manhood in the superlative. Dr.
A. A. Murphree, president of the University of Florida, at Gaines-
ville, laid down the quiver and shoved the lamp and cruse for other
hands to fill and keep alight.
 In the death of Dr. Murphree, Florida has lost a shining beacon,
our only solace being that his refracting rays have penetrated and
warmed the hearts and minds of thousands and that warmth and
teaching will have a permanent glow that will be passed from one
generation to another as a benison in their lives and an orison in
time to come.
 Tributes to Dr. Murphree himself are useless. He is now where
nothing that may be said of him is of avail. But tribute to his mem-
ory, his life, his works, is as a beacon shining brilliantly in the dark,
that wayfarers may all see the road to enlightenment and not stumble
or fall by the wayside.
 The life of Dr. Murphree is an open book that those who choose
may read and be assured that the pathway of good conduct, manliness
and right living is the safest and most pleasurable road to follow.
 Dr. Murphree has passed over the way; his life, like a meteor,
flashed in the heavens, giving radiance to those that chose the light.
His life, like the meteor, was short and brilliant, and the world is
the better by his having lived. The work that he performed will last
for time to come. -BROWARD COUNTY HIDEPENDErT.