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The MAC RECORD The M. A. C. RECORD. MICHIGAN STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. VOL. 8. LANSING, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1903. No. 38 MEMORIAL SERVICES. Doctor Kedzie was everywhere re­ he returned in 1897 to Michigan, cognized as the leader in the Agri­ broken in health, and after a short On Sunday evening memorial cultural College movement for stay, removed to California in the ALUMNI. services for members of the faculty Michigan. hope that the climate might restore who have died during the past three The State of Michigan owes a him. Here he engaged in preach­ years were held in the armory. debt of gratitude to Robert Clark ing again, as his strength would '82. Prof. Liberty Hyde Bailey, Tributes were paid to Ex-President Kedzie which can scarcely be over­ permit. But his health continued Jr., alumni orator, addressed the O. Clute, Ex-president G. T. Fair- estimated. We hear talk of build­ to fail until his death January 27th, American Association of Nursery­ child, and Dr. R. C. Kedzie by Dr. ing a monument to his memory and 1902. men in Detroit last week. A fine Edwards, Dr. Beal and Mr. C. B. it is well. But he has builded his Dr. Clute was a prolific writer cut of Prof. Bailey appeared in last Collingwood respectively. It is own monument. This college with and an enthusiastic student of agri­ Thursday's issue of the Detroit greatly to be regretted that only its beautiful campus, its splendid culture. While at Vineland he Free Press. Editor H. W. Coiling- portions of these tributes to noble buildings, its six thousand sons and edited the agricultural department wood, of the Rural New Torker, and great men can be published at daughters scattered throughout this of the Vineland weekly. While in M. A. C, '83, also addressed the this time. A member of the Albion country is his monument, and a Newark he was for a time editor of same association. College faculty had been asked to prouder heritage has no man. The the Liberal Christian of New York '83. Ex-Secretary Bird was elect­ talk of the life and services of Ex- near future should see a new and City. His book, The Blessed Bees, ed president of the Lansing Manu­ Acting President Fiske, whose adequately equipped chemical lab­ went through four editions, and he facturers' Club last Wednesday death has occurred within the past oratory to be called the Kedzie wrote largely and helpfully for evening. three years, but force of circum­ Memorial laboratory so that a per­ various bee journals. He was stances did not permit this part of manent and special reminder may president of the Iowa Bee-Keepers '99WZ. Mr. Allan H. Stone is the exercises being given. be left to all posterity of the splen­ Association and editor of the Iowa working as assistant engineer with did work of this noble man. Stuck Journal and Farmer. The the Illinois Central Railway, and is No hard and fast rules can be laid arduous nature of his work while at temporarily located at Mattson, down by which such a triumvirate Some facts in the life and work this College prevented similar Miss. efforts; but his sermons and ad­ as an Abbot, a Miles and a Kedzie of Ex-President Clute are as follows, '01m. Mr. R. M. Lickly writes dresses were always of a high order can be drawn together, but this in­ though the address as given is not very pleasantly about his work in and showed great reach of thought stitution found itself thus equipped at hand: Washington. His address is No. and the scholarly habit of expres­ and its success today is because of Dr. Oscar Clute was born near 1549 Columbia St., N. W., Wash­ sion. such men. Albany, New York, March 14, ington, D. C. It is particularly to Robert Clark 1827. He was of Dutch descent. 'oiw. Mr. J. C. Green is located Kedzie that I would call your atten­ Up to the age of 17 he divided his As his father was an officer of the at Wabash, Ind., with the Wabash time between the farm and school, College, Dr. George Thompson tion. There are few instances where Bridge & Iron Works. a man past middle life has made a but at that age he began teaching, Fairchild lived for most, or all, of change in his profession and has by his first work being done as princi­ his early life, at Oberlin College, With '04. Friends of Robert S. earnest, persistent effort made him­ pal of the Binghamton schools. Ohio. In due time he graduated in Brewer, nephew of Mr. Graham of self one of the foremost men of his Two years later he entered the Sus­ the four-years' course and later in the State Board, will regret to learn time. quehanna Seminary as both student the course in theology. of his recent death at his home, When an Abbot a Miles and a and teacher. In 1857 he came to In 1S65, he became Instructor in Grand Rapids. He, as well as two Kedzie toiled in thai clearing in the Ionia, Michigan, as a teacher, being English Literature at this college sisters, who died about the same Michigan woods they were uncon­ chosen the following year as piinci- and after one year he was made time, were stricken with typhoid scious of the great work whose pai. In 1S59 he resigned to become Professor of the same subject, a fever. It is regrettable that some foundalions they were laying. a student at the College, entering place he filled most acceptably till facts relating to his life cannot be When Doctor Kedzie accepted the sophomore'class. While yet an 1879, a period of fourteen years. given at this time. the position as Professer of Chem­ under-graduate he was appointed as In 1872-73, during the absence of istry he was not a trained chemist, teacher in the preparatory depart­ President Abbot, he was acting ALUMNI PROGRAM WEDN'ESDAV, ment of the College, and immedi­ there were few such in the country president of this College, for one JUNE 17th. at that time, the science was in its ately upon graduation, '62, he was. year, and in assuming this difficult infancy, but he grew with it and chosen tutor, afterwards professor task he displayed marked ability. Alumni headquarters—new post- made himself one of the foremost of mathematics, holding that posi­ In November, 1879, ne resigned office. Register and get your badge. Chemists of the country. But more tion till 1866. his professorship to accept the than that he had the insight to After leaving the college he en­ Presidency of Kansas Agricultural Order oj Fxercises. grasp this new education. He saw tered Meadville Theological Semi­ College, an institution at that time First Business Meeting — 8 =30 a, that it would furnish the opportunity nary, where he graduated the fol­ with a rather low rank, but during m., Chemical Laboratory. for an education to thousands of the lowing year. Upon graduation, he the eighteen years of his administra­ Literary Exercises — 10:30 a. m.. youth of this country who must accepted a call to the First Unitarian tion, it steadily improved in every Chapel. otherwise be deaf and dumb and church at Vineland, New Jersey. respect. Alumni Banquet— 1 p. m., Ar­ blind to higher thought. It is While at Vineland, Dr. Clute helped He looked well after many details mory. doubtful if the Michigan Agricul­ to organize, and was elected presi­ of management, includingtheincome Alumni Photograph— 3 p.m., tural College could have reached its dent of the famous Vineland Farm­ and expenditure of money, perform­ Armory. high plane among the educational ers' Club, which during his presi­ ing a wonderful amount of what may Second Business Meeting 3:30 institutions of the country without dency, gained a reputation not be termed drudgery or dead work. p. m., Chemical Laboratory. him. Accepting in 1863 the profes­ limited even to the United States. He left Kansas under most trying President Snyder's Reception — sorship of chemistry in this College, In 1868 he was married by Pres. circumstances, having been dis­ 8:00 p. m., President's House. he gave nearly forty years of his Abbot to the President's sister-in- charged by a board of trustees who life to the service of education, and law, Miss Mary Merrvlees. He had recently been appointed by a Program of Literary Exercises. when he passed away, rilled with remained at Vineland for six years, governor elected by an opposition President's Address — A. G years and honors, there was no note and from there was called to the Populist party; but during all of Gulley, '68. of sadness, nothing but the fitting first church at Newark, N.J. Two this trying ordeal he uttered no Oration—Liberty H. Bailey, '82. termination of a grand, full life. years later Dr. Clute received a call harsh words against his opponents. (The Forward Look in Country to the First Unitarian church at Such is the simple record of his As E. R. Nichols, now president of Life.) ' Keokuk, Iowa; and after serving the college, recently said, "There life, but how about the man ? What History—Charles H. Hilton, '00. was he to the thousands of young there four years, was called to the were rumblings during this period *Poem_W. S. Holdsworth, '78. men who came in daily contact with larger field of Iowa City, serving of nearly seven years, warnings of him? A temperament earnest almost for seven years the First Unitarian what was to come, yet in all this DONT'S.
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