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

 DR. MURPHREE'S PASSING
 UMM E SHALL not say that Dr. Albert Alexander Murphree, since
 1909 president of the University of Florida, is dead, not-
 withstanding the fact that his daughter, going to his room yesterday
 morning after he had during the night before suffered an attack which
 made the calling of a physician necessary, but which was thought
 nothing serious, found him what is called so-the victim of heart
 disease. We are sure that in all things except active bodily presence
 Dr. Murphree still lives here in Florida and will still live here
 through generations yet unborn. He was of the sort whose works live
 aftef them and, after all, it is works that count.
 Albert Alexander Murphree has passed from this earthly scene of
 action. In his passing the state of Florida, higher education in the
 state and in the South, have suffered greatly.
 What the University of Florida is today it is largely because he
 lived and had the direction of its planning and guided the execution
 of those plans. It is not mere post-death eulogy to say that Dr. Mur-
f phree was one of the nation's outstanding educators. He was large
 of mind, large of culture, large of heart and very, very large in under-
 standing helpfulness and sympathy where these were needed.
 The people of the United States have heard of Dr. Murphree.
 This was in connection with his mention by William Jennings Bryan
 as a suitable man for this country's presidency. Of course Dr.
 Murphree was never in any sense a candidate for that high place.
 His naming as such was only the tribute of one great, clean man to
 another great clean man. As such it was most worthily bestowed.
 Unless we have misunderstood him he counted the presidency of
 the University of Florida-where he might come in contact with
 young men and spend himself for them in terms and acts of helpful-
 ness-a greater thing than the presidency of the United States. In
 this we think he was correct. As president of the United State' he
 would have reached the highest pinnacle possible for a citizen of this
 republic. As president of the University of Florida he had oppor-
 tunity to lead in the preparation of thousands, some of whom may
 come to the presidency of the nation, all of whom have entered and
 will enter into the making of the warp and woof of the very fibre of
 our nation. It was a task for a man. Albert Alexander Murphree
 was a man for the task.