Show William Lainaj Harper William Rainey larper is dead Am 'tiler of America’s greatest M'holars and mo-- t succesHul execu-tiva- s lias passed awav Horn in lie e has bv his indefatiy-ahlohsenrity energy coupled with native ability reached the front rank in the armv of the worlds educators 1 With almost a prophetic singleness his whole earlv lile and training seems to have looked forward to the then unfounded Universitv of This institution which Chicago has received the best thirteen vears of his life will stand as a joint monument to its yenenms founder and its late president he work of has been so well done organization by this master hand that its effects are a certain heritage to this vouny yiant amony schools and his silent counsel will formulate policies for the cominy yeneration almost as definitely as thonyh he moved amoiiy the f icultv and students in ody instead of spirit Dr I larper was essentially a man of ideas lie miyht fairlv he termed an idealist It was he who promoted the efficient universitv extension work which is becominy such a ureat power in our countrv With-u- i a radius of five hundred miles of bicayo there are this year hundreds of towns beiny visited dically bv men from the Univer- tv and tens of thousands of peo 1 1 ple who cannot yo to ilu institution are haviny some of its learniny brouybt tit them Another of his plans which doubtless would have been consummate had his fife been spared a few vears more) was a sort of circulatiny or traveliny liy this scheme he hoped to brary e able to supph' the student in anv part of the“ countrv with books from the I niversitv librarv to aid in scientific or other investiyations He frequently said that he hoped to see the dav when the universitv could be carried to the masses throuyh its lecturers and its librarv He put into practical operation the method of teachiny bv correspondence more than a quarter of a cenHe proved to his own time ayo satisfaction that work as difficult as the learniny of a new lanyuaye could be successfullv tauyht in this way Duriny his vears as professor of Hebrew at the Chicayo Seminary and later at Yale he tauyht Hebrew to hundreds of students hv correspondence He was reallv the oriyinator of “Lessons bv Alail" and w hile like every yood thiny this method has been abused he and the University of Chicayo into whose various departments he introduced it have alwavs maintained the same hiyh standard of excellence demanded in class work in the same subjects ( 1 I 1 The-oloyic- al |