Show I Closest Friends f And Associates i Write Tributes I r Express Appreciation Of Character Character Character Char Char- acter And Convey Sympathy To Friends And nd Kindred f. f B By Professor ProCessor Kerr Arnoldson Dr Torild Washington was was what his middle name suggests to all who knew him best a 1 Washington washIngton washington Wash wash- wise councilor councilor coun coun- ington a splendid leader a cHor and a true friend This is however however how how- ever eyer another side of his character that only his most intimate friends appreciate His heart was as tender as that of the heart of a child chUd although although although al al- al- al though It may have seemed to some as hard bard as adam adamant At Christmas Christmastime time he lie often orten dressed up his little Astrid As As- Astrid Astrid as Santa Claus Glaus and the two visited visited visited visit visit- ed the poor children of the neighborhood neighbor neighbor- hood giving liberally and bringing cheer and comfort At the outbreak of the present war Professor ProCessor Arnoldson was in France sweet France that country he lie fe loved literature literature literature liter liter- so much and whose marvelous remade him Just before ent entering entering en en- t the boat he went to some booksellers booksellers book book- sellers and bought as many books as his means might allow not because he cared for the books or had use for them but because he wished to keep some whose future sad and disconsolate One Saturday afternoon of last year I came to the University to do some work Professor Profess r Arnoldson was at athis athis athis his des desk He seemed restless and un un- easy He could not study a thing so unusual with him even in the most trying circumstances After talking with him for a few minutes he said Mr Kerr I cant can't study I have just returned from the Administration building While there I saw a bird fluttering about the windows and the chandeliers of the trying to get out My first thought was to liberate liberate lib lib lib- erate it wh winch which ch I have tried in vain to do Will you OU help me because I cannot cannot cannot can can- not stud study as long as I am thinking of the tho bird We went over to the Administration Administration Ad Ad- ministration building and found the bird still trying to get out although it was almost exhausted The efforts of about an hour brought results The bird took refuge in Professor Giles Giles' Continued on Page 3 3 TRI TRIBUTES TO PROFESSOR ARNOLDSON Continued from page 1 music room and the became easy Let me say in closing that Professor sor Arnoldson was a a a- areal real friend to the thereal thereal thereal real student No sacrifices were too great for him to make if he felt that the student was in I need To the person person per per- son who came to his French classes for the credit only he had no merc mercy but the honest efforts of or the cious Clous student were richly rewarded The University has lost not only a great linguist but a 3 great scholar whose scholastic attainments fitted him to appreciate quite fully other fields of human activity and whose wide experience in travel made him hima a valuable asset to the University ot or Utah and to the various nationalities of the state One of his great dreams has never been realized A dream and a hope for a chair of Scandinavian languages In the University of Utah May the time be not far distant for the realization realization reali of the great dream By Professor Reynolds Professor Arnoldson knew kne the chance with death he was taking to secure the chance of the better health which he lie deemed necessary to 10 his work He did not flinch The persistence persistence per per- with which he met advice to try measures less severe than an operation operation op impressive even as he talked with us shows plainly now as quiet heroism He said I do not care to live and not work Other remedies me mean mean n a cessation of work I must work What finer impulse towards heroism than devotion to work Directed to the attainment ol or learning Professor Arnoldson's life resulted in rare scholarship and this too in a field in which scholarship Is rare He was our authority upon matters matters matters mat mat- linguistic and the illumination of mind we sought was ours always fully and freely Add now his appreciation of the work of others Who among his colleagues colleagues colleagues col col- leagues have not been strengthened for their tasks by the understanding he showed of their purposes and of the qualities of merit in their work It was characteristic too that this understanding should so often find tind epigrammatic expression supplying almost a guiding maxim to the friend to whom he spoke Professor Arnoldson for years did his work at strife with ill health He died pursuing health with which to continue to do his work The example of his life and death and of the high character his work to which both bolli his life and death were dedicated is of the kind sure to en en- I dure |