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Show MM FUNERAL ! L LARGELY ATTENDED i - Glowing Tributes Are Paid to the Late University of Utah Professor. Funeral services yesterday for Professor Profes-sor Ton Id W. Arnoldson in the University Univer-sity of Utah assembly hall were attended by numerous friends of the late educator. The hall was filled almost to capacity by : students and instructors and other admirers ad-mirers of the noted scholar, who met to pay a final tribute to his memory. The services were conducted by Pro- feasor George Montanye Marlisall according accord-ing to the ritual of the F.piseopal church. ; Addresses were made oy Professor F. W. j J-:e nolds. who represented the faculty, and Peter Kashts. as the representative j of ihe student body. i Professor Reynolds, speaking from the standpoint of a colleague, paid a rIow-1ne; rIow-1ne; ti ibute to the scholarship, intellectual intellec-tual achievements, broad sympathy and humanity of Professor Arnoldson, explaining explain-ing the heroism with which he had con- United his life's work in the face of ' affliction. Professor Reynolds told of the high appreciation ap-preciation in which his colleagues held Professor Arnoldson, remarking that this had grown steadily through the years. At first it was an appreciation of something some-thing merely intellectual in the man and later became an understanding of his emotional richness as the aims and Ideals of the educator became known. Dwelling on Professor Arnotdson's qualities. qual-ities. Professor Reynolds said: He was a scholar, exact and exact- ing an authority on linguistic tan sies. An achievement of his was the working out of a universal language.' l He was modest: I have never known him to pose. The matter of self did not exist in him. j His great learning was increased in A ill health, and as tiiis became known f our admiration for a scholar became an admiration for a heio. His Insistence In-sistence on continuing his severe work , xyas heroism. The patriotism of i world citizenship was among, other i things a characterization of Profes- p sor Arnoldson. His scholarship was but a means to an end. Mr. Kasius discussed the esteem in which Professor Arnoldson was held among the students. "During the past week there has been a change in the atmosphere at the uni-' uni-' versity." he said. "A hush has fallen upon the institution. The students have had their minds forcused on the ideals or the great educator who has left us. k. He is gone now and we shall miss him on the campus. He will not be with us. U but the environment of his ideals will remains with us." The services were attended by Professor Profes-sor A moid son's former wife, who came I from Chicago: his sister. Mrs. Carl Klion, r from Galva. 111., and his little daughter, . Astrid, who accompanied her mother.' The pallbearers were Dean Joseph F. ; .Merrill. Dean James Gibson, Dean Wil-' Wil-' Jiam IT. Deary, Dean Milton Bennion, ."Dean Perry Gardner Snow and Professor Profes-sor F. V. Reynolds. ' 'fhe body of Professor Arnoldson will be sent to Denver by the Larkin-Hull Undertaking company, where it will be , cremated, in accordance with the wish of the educator. |