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 He will be missed. But his work will go on. He planned so
well and executed so faithfully for the University of Florida that so
long as it exists and builds it will exist and build upon foundations
which he laid and toward ideals which he held for it and its matricu-
late.
 It is to be said of Dr. Murphree that he served his day and genera-
tion and then fell upon sleep-sleep that overtook him not when he
was old and tired but while, full of life and vigor and mentality and
spirituality, he was putting himself and his best into the work that
was his.
 The University of Florida will have another president. It is doubt-
ful if it will have another like Dr. Murphree. Florida has and will
continue to have outstanding citizens. No state has ever had many
citizens like Albert Alexander Murphree; nor will any state ever
have many citizens of his kind.
 -TAMPA TIMES.


 FLORIDA MOURNS
n ATH has stalked in Florida to take in his prime and vigor and
 aspiration one of its builders. One of its beacons of light has
gone out. One of its master minds has been removed from familiar
scenes. One of its most inspired leaders is no more. One of its seers
has been called. Dr. Albert Alexander Murphree is dead.
 The suddenness with which came the news of the death of the
president of the University of Florida at his home in Gainesville has
shocked a commonwealth. It was yesterday that he was counseling
a student, taking part in national or sectional meeting for the pro-
motion of the cause of education, that he was drilling some civic
group in faith, that he was envisioning a grander state, and today a
saddened multitude mourns for him. It was so unexpected, that
even yet one can scarcely realize that a man, who typified as com-
pletely the best for which Florida stands as did he, has been silenced
forever as far as he can speak in person for its development. Though
he has passed to his reward for a life well spent, the legacy that he
left will be for years to come a reservoir of inspiration for those who
follow him.
 Scarcely any man could have been taken from the life of Florida
whose passing would cause a feeling of personal loss quite as keen.