THE BATTALION.
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Under bis presidency the steady growth of this col
lege and the gentlemanly deportment of the young men who
assemble in these halls, the harmony and concord of the fac
ulty and the Es-prit de corps that prevails in all its depart
ments, attest his wisdon and fitness for this service.
The example of his life is commended to these young
men that had been committed to his care. Let the memory
of that noble life never fade from your herrts.
I will not speak today of his domestic life. I feel in
capable of entering that sacred portal, but to his loved ones
left to weep and mourn let me say that Texas weeps and
mourns with you.
Address of Judge Norman G. Kittrell of Houston,Texas.
There are times in the lives of men when the emo
tions are so deeply stirred that the lips cannot give utterance
to that which the heart feeleth, and often when they fain
would worthily speak, the theme seems so lofty as to be be
yond their reach.
’Tis thus I feel today. I fear to trust myself to speak of
him, to whose memory we would today do honor, for his life
and character were at once “ above praise and beyond
eulogy.”
I feel that I have been bidden here to take part in no
formal or perfunctory ceremony, or to give assent to trite and
hackneyed phrases of posthumous praise, but to pay sincere
and heartfelt tribute to departed worth and virtue.
To this shrine I have come as a sincere and earnest
mourner for one whom living I loved, and who dead I mourn
with such sorrow as I have rarely felt. But in the darkest-
hour there is always some measure of consolation and no
gloom, however deep, is without some ray of cheer and com
fort.
I would not intrude my personal grief upon such an oc-