Show A Meditative Retrospect By L L. A A. A Hollenbeck The passing of Cecil D D. D Pope was a shock that threw us out of the rut The writer first knew him in 1914 We cut brush and talked together down on the city park He was a precocious youth of 15 and way ahead of his age in thinking He was an ah an omnivorous ous student and a practical thinker think think- er but cared little for the curriculum curriculum curriculum lum of schools and universities And yet he was a a. considerable of ot ofa ota ofa a scholar receiving aid from his hia distinguished father R. R M M. M Pope He became a good surveyor and anda a civil engineer without any sheepskin He seemed to grasp the difficult problems of I ry alone by himself with avidity and ease Euclid the father of f geometry first developed the science science science ence more than 2000 years ago and the historian says that That work worle is the greatest work that a single human mind ever and yet this boy out of school and without a teacher mastered mastered mastered mas mas- the fundamentals of the science science science ence of geometry I j Later he changed his course studied law by himself mastered the principles of Blackstone and Kent and was admitted to practice practice I tice law and made an enviable record in that line But he was not confined to any profession I Professions are broad but to grow growa I Ia a man must not be confined to any profession He must have a broad broadview broadview broadview view of philosophy and take in the i ilaw law of cause and effect in a all 11 the broader field of knowledge Cecil Pope was vas in that field I |