{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "V\\nA^\\ny\\nz\\n-9\\nV nil ^fl\\np- y\\\\l \u00c2\u00b0o\\n.v^^", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "c:\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0P\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0be;. aV^v^;/ :S,^-:. 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His early life was\\ndevoted to the acquisition of a fortune, and his later to the\\nwise and intelligent study of the needs of his country along the\\nlines of higher scientific education. The result was the found-\\ning and endowing, while he was yet living, of the institution\\nat Worcester which bears his name, Clark University. This\\nput him in the rank of those noble public benefactors whose\\nmunificence coming generations will enjoy, and from which\\ngreat advantages will accrue to the individual, and inestimable\\nblessings to the country and the world.\\nMr. Clark was, in the best sense of the word, a man of the\\npeople. He descended through a long line of ancestors, intelli-\\ngent and worthy, who had developed high ideas of the duty of\\ncitizenship in a republic like ours, and notions of the respon-\\nsibilities of wealth which result in the large philanthropies so\\ncharacteristic of the section of the country in which he was\\nborn and reared.\\nMr. Clark could well be said to be a native product of our\\nsoil and truly be called an American of Americans. He was\\nin the eighth generation of his family in this country, being a", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0017.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "lineal descendant of Hugh and Elizabeth Clark, who were among\\nthe first settlers at Watertown, Mass.\\nHugh Clark, who is set down in the early annals as a\\nhusbandman, crossed the Atlantic with his good wife from\\nEngland, the land of their birth, and threw in his lot with that\\nlittle band of pure-minded and stout-hearted men and womeh\\nwho sought in the new world that liberty of conscience and\\nfreedom of worship denied them by the state and church polity\\nof the mother country. From Watertown he migrated to Rox-\\nbury, where, in 1660, he was made a freeman, and in 1666\\nbecame a member of the Artillery Company. He died there in\\n1693, being then about 80 years of age.\\nHis son John, born in Watertown in 1641, received from\\nhis father a property embracing some sixty-seven acres of land\\nin Newton, Mass., upon which he erected a saw-mill, the first\\nbuilt upon the banks of the Charles River. He died in 1695.\\nHis son, Isaac Clark, was a land owner in Framingham and\\nHopkinton, Mass. John Clark, son of Isaac, born in 1730,\\nsettled at Hubbardston, Mass., about the year he became of\\nage, and attained a leading position in that community by hold-\\ning the rank of captain in the militia and being chosen at various\\ntimes to fill nearly every civil office in the gift of the town.\\nWarmly espousing the cause of the Colonists against the\\nmother country, he was chosen a delegate to the first Provincial\\nCongress of Massachusetts, in 1774, and during the Revolution\\nfurnished supplies to the Continental Army. In the local his-\\ntories he is frequently mentioned in connection with public\\nevents, and is always referred to as a man of probity and virtue", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0018.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "and an orthodox and practical Christian. His son, William Clark\\nof Hubbardston, a farmer of some property, high social standing\\nand excellent character, was a member of Capt. William Marean s\\ncompany that marched to Lexington in April, 1775, and later\\nhe was a member of Captain Wheeler s company in Colonel\\nDoolittle s regiment. He was the father of William Smith Clark,\\nborn January 22d, 1784. The latter married Elizabeth, daughter\\nof Lieut. Samuel Clark of Hubbardston, Mass., on May 22d, 1803,\\nand was the father of Jonas Oilman Clark, the subject of this\\nbiographical notice.\\nThe son of a farmer of independent means and blessed with\\na mother who came of a good family, and was more than com-\\nmonly endowed with the virtues of her sex, he began life under\\nauspicious conditions. From his earliest years he was noted for\\nhis thoroughness and progressive views, and for a certain self-\\nreliance which was shown by his refusal to make any draft upon\\nthe small estate left to him by his mother, beyond the price\\nof a Dore Bible, which remained to the day of his death a\\nvalued keepsake. As a school boy he made good use of his\\nopportunities, and by the time he was ready to engage in bread-\\nwinning he was the possessor of a good English education, had\\na keen appreciation of the value of knowledge and was dis-\\nposed to enlighten himself still further by employing his leisure\\nto that end rather than to waste it in selfish indulgence.\\nSelecting the trade of carriage building as a vocation, he\\nmastered it thoroughly and then opened a shop of his own.\\nLater he engaged in the manufacture and sale of general hard-\\nware, as the phrase was then understood, to which he added", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0019.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "household furniture, for the successful conduct of which he first\\nerected suitable buildings, and later established depots or stores\\nfor the sale of his products at Lowell and Milford in Massa-\\nchusetts.\\nDuring the fateful years of the anti-slavery movement in\\nNew England previous to 1853, i while he was yet a resident\\nof Massachusetts, Mr. Clark was an early and earnest sympa-\\nthizer with the cause and its leaders, many of the latter being\\nhis familiar friends and frequent guests at his home.\\nWhile absolutely devoid of political ambition, he was a con-\\nsistent patriot all the days of his life, and his abiding faith in\\nthe republic was energetically attested both in California, dur-\\ning the critical period at the outbreak of the Civil War, and\\nlater by the hazard of his fortune on the credit and stability\\nof the National Government throughout the long years of finan-\\ncial gloom and uncertainty which followed.\\nProgressive and enterprising beyond most men, he made\\nrapid strides in. the accumulation of a fortune, and was generally\\nregarded and always spoken of as one who had the happy faculty\\nof transmuting everything he touched into gold. Upon the\\ndiscovery of this precious metal in California, he was quick to per-\\nceive the possibilities of trade on the Pacific slope, and, relinquish-\\ning his Eastern business, embarked in a general supply business,\\nor the California trade, as it was then called, and with his\\npartner in this venture, Mr. George B. Wilbur of Hubbardston,\\nwho accompanied him to California in the early fifties, he laid\\nthe foundation of his fortune through dealing in miners supplies.\\nUpon returning to the Atlantic coast he engaged in business", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0020.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "in New York City, and during the Civil War and reconstruction\\nperiod made large transactions in government securities, with the\\nresult of greatly augmenting his fortune. Later, he invested\\nheavily in real estate in Boston and New York, netting large\\nprofit from its judicious purchase and sale. In 1875 he disposed\\nof his residence on Fifth Avenue, New York, but, desiring to\\nmaintain a home in the metropolis, he soon after purchased\\nanother site on Seventy-second Street, near the Lenox Library,\\nwhich, upon his removal from the city, he sold for half a million.\\nThe contiguity of Worcester, Mass., to his birthplace and\\nsocial ties formed in early life, and its central location, as the\\nHeart of the Commonwealth, led Mr. Clark to select it as the\\nplace of his permanent residence, and in 1881 he built on Elm\\nStreet a large and costly mansion of granite which he and his\\nwife occupied as their home in Worcester, although of recent years\\nit was Mr. Clark s custom to spend the winter season in New\\nYork City. He made considerable purchases of real estate in\\nWorcester, and built there one of the largest and hand-\\nsomest blocks on Main Street, the central and leading business\\nthoroughfare, and also another fine block on Front Street. A\\ntrue bibliophile, Mr. Clark gratifietl his tastes in this direction\\nalmost without limit. His private library is unusually large and\\nvaluable, and, besides being rich in its several departments, con-\\ntains what is probably the finest collection in Massachusetts,\\noutside of a public institution, of early manuscripts and choice\\nold first editions.\\nBut while indulging his own scholarly tastes, Mr. Clark was\\nalways keenly conscious of the responsibilities of wealth. Years", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "ago when his fortune had already assumed large proportions, he\\nbegan to give grave thoughts to this question of stewardship.\\nThe pure philanthropy of his nature demanded expression so\\nsoon as it became possible, and found it in the gift to his native\\ntown of Hubbardston, Mass., of a handsome public building\\nfor a library, which also includes a post-office and rooms for\\nthe town offices, substantially constructed of brick and granite,\\ncomparing favorably with any town edifice for similar pur-\\nposes in the country. To render this generous gift immediately\\neffective, he filled the shelves of the library with a well-chosen\\ncollection of books, numbering in excess of two thousand volumes.\\nThe thanks of the officials of the town and the appreciation of\\nits inhabitants were an ample reward but beyond these was the\\nconsciousness of a self-imposed duty well performed and the\\nrealization of the usefulness of the means employed in stimu-\\nlating interest and ripening faculties which for want of the\\nopportunity presented might possibly never be aroused or de-\\nveloped.\\nBut like that other great friend of humanity, Ezra Cornell,\\nthe large-hearted and noble-minded founder of Cornell Uni-\\nversity, who similarly began his philanthropies by founding a\\nbeautiful and useful public library, Mr. Clark found this only a\\nbeginning of his public usefulness. Like Cornell, he sought for\\na larger and wider field in which he might use a substantial\\npart of his great and growing fortune to the lasting advantage\\nof his country and possibly of the whole world.\\nHis experience as a business man made him intensely practical\\nand may be said to have colored his views, for it appears that", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "one of the first things borne in upon his mind when he began\\nto study the field was the thoroughness of the scientific training\\ngiven abroad, notably in the universities of Germany. It became\\nevident to him that this kind of training was of high value not\\nonly to the individuals to whom it was given and to the country\\nin which it was practised, but also to the world at large. To\\nsee for himself was the next step, and being a somewhat self-\\ncontained man, he said nothing concerning the projects already\\nripening in his brain, but arranging his affairs so as to allow\\nlong intervals for travel and observation, he gave the leisure of\\neight years to visiting the leading foreign institutions of learn-\\ning, old and new, and to gathering and reading their records.\\nThese studies centred about the means by which the highest\\nculture of one generation is best transmitted to the ablest youths\\nof the next, and especially about the external conditions most\\nfavorable for increasing the sum of human knowledge. The\\nculmination of these observations and studies was a resolve to\\nfound a university in America to be devoted to the improve-\\nment of these means and the enlargement of these conditions,\\na resolve than which it would be almost impossible to conceive\\none higher or nobler.\\nMr. Clark began operations early in 1887 by the purchase of\\na site for the proposed university in Worcester, Mass., that city\\nbeing chosen by the founder after mature deliberation First,\\nbecause its location is central among the best colleges of the\\nEast, and by supplementing rather than duplicating their work,\\nhe hopes to advance all their interests and secure their good\\nwill and active support that, together, further steps may be", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "taken in the development of superior education in New Eng-\\nland; and, secondly, because he believes the culture of the city\\nwill insure that enlightened public opinion indispensable in main-\\ntaining these educational standards at their highest, and that\\nits wealth will insure the perpetual increase of revenue required\\nby the rapid progress of science. As the first positive step\\ntoward the realization of his plans, Mr. Clark invited eight lead-\\ning citizens of Worcester to constitute with himself a Board of\\nTrustees.\\nFollowing is a list of their names Stephen Salisbury, presi-\\ndent of the American Antiquarian Society; Hon. Charles Devens,\\nex-attorney-general of the United States and a Justice of the\\nsupreme court of Massachusetts; Hon. George F. Hoar, LL.D.,\\nUnited States Senator; William W. Rice, LL.D., a member of\\nCongress; Dr. Joseph Sargent, a physician of eminence; Hon.\\nJohn D. Washburn, former U. S. Minister to Switzerland Frank\\nP. Goulding, a member of the Worcester county bar, and George\\nSwan, also a member of the bar and of the Worcester school\\nboard. A charter granting full university privileges and con-\\nfirming the name selected, Clark University, in recognition of\\nthe munificence of the originator and founder, as shown b}- the\\nendowment of one million dollars and probably more should the\\ncommunity exhibit substantial evidence of its sympathy, encour-\\nagement and support, was obtained on petition from the Massa-\\nchusetts legislature in 1887; and on October 2 2d of that year\\nthe corner-stone of the institutionwas laid by Mr. and Mrs. Clark\\nin the presence of a large concourse of people. In his address\\non the occasion, Mr. Clark said:", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "We have assembled at this time to participate in the observ-\\nance of a most pleasing and agreeable rite, the laying of the\\ncorner-stone of the first buildino- to be erected for the use of a\\nnew university and although we may all fail to realize the fact\\nthat a university as such, fully organized and equipped in every\\nrespect for doing the work of such an institution, cannot be called\\ninto existence at once by the fiat of any human agency, but that it\\nmust be the result of gradual growth extending over a period of\\nmany years, we are taking the initial steps in the foundation of an\\ninstitution which we believe, without a doubt or a fear, will in the\\ntime to come realize our most sanguine hopes.\\nBroad in its scope, liberal in its methods, and comprehensive\\nin its teachings, it must of necessity prove a powerful instrument\\nin promoting the higher education and fuller development of the\\nintellectual faculties of our people. Being placed, as we propose\\nit shall be, in charge of the wisest and most accomplished scholars\\nof the day in several departments of science, literature, and art,\\nthose seeking to avail themselves of its advantages will be brought\\nin close relations with the best thought and most profound wisdom\\nof the world and a^e. We are sflad to be able to contribute to the\\nfoundation of such an institution, the work and mission of which\\nwill be the culture and elevation of a great and rapidly growing\\npeople. We shall watch its progress with the deepest interest\\nand the most solicitous regard. We therefore, here and now,\\ndedicate this university to science, letters, art, and human progress,\\nin their best and most valuable forms, and may the Giver of all\\ngood crown its efforts and the labors with His constant and\\nabundant blessing.\\nWithin two years after the charter had been obtained, a-\\nplain, substantial, and well-appointed central building, 204 by\\n114 feet, four stories high, and with superior facilities for heating,\\nlighting, and ventilation, was completed. It was built of brick\\nand granite, and finished throughout in oak. A laboratory build-", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "ing, containing about 50 rooms, and designed after consulting\\nnoted experts and the plans of the most approved European\\nstructures, was subsequently completed. The foundations of a\\nstill larger department building were also laid, to provide for\\nfuture expansion. In the spring of 1888, G. Stanley Hall, Ph.D.,\\nthen a professor in Johns Hopkins University, was invited to\\nthe presidency of Clark University. Although in an institution,\\nto quote his own words, which, in less than fifteen years of\\nits existence, has done a work in stimulating other institutions\\nand in advancing the highest standard, which was bejond com-\\nparison in the recent history of higher education in this country,\\nhe saw the opportunity at Clark to be so great for a further\\nand at least no less epoch-making step, that he accepted the\\ninvitation.\\nAs a preparation for the new work he was sent to Europe\\nand spent a year there in studying educational institutions and\\nmethods, visiting every country except Portugal and seeking in-\\nformation from every source. Equipped by the knowledge thus\\ngleaned he hastened home and on October 2d, 1889, the buildings\\nbeing nearly ready for occupancy, the university was formally\\nopened. Several thousand persons attended, among them being\\na number of notabilities, including leading ofiicials, well-known\\nscientists and many members of the professions. Gen. Charles\\nDevens presided and made the opening speech, in the course\\nof which, after paying high compliments to President Hall, he\\nsaid: The moment of commencing a great enterprise, if one of\\nhope, is one of anxiety also. Of those to whom much is given\\nmuch is rightfully required. We have received from the founder", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "of the university a most generous gift, the good effect uf which, if\\nwisely used, will be felt long after the grass grows green above\\neach one of us. It has been supplemented by those provisions\\nmade by himself and his estimable and honored wife, which by\\nmeans of fellowships open wide the gates of the university to those\\nof narrow means. In all that has been done it has been the wish\\nof the trustees to keep themselves in communication with the\\nbest thought, the noblest feeling, the highest aspirations of the\\nage in which we live.\\nThe next address was by Mr. Clark, who referred to the in-\\nception of the plan and purposes of the institution in the fol-\\nlowing words\\nWhen we first entered upon our work it was with a well-\\ndefined plan and purpose, in which plan and purpose we have\\nsteadily persevered, turning neither to the right nor to the left.\\nWe have wrought upon no vague conceptions nor suffered our-\\nselves to be borne upon the fluctuating and unstable current of\\npublic opinion or public suggestions. We started upon our career\\nwith the determinate view of giving to the public all the benefits\\nand advantages of a universitj-, comprehending full well what\\nthat implies, and feeling the full force of the general understand-\\ning that a university must, to a large degree, be a creation of time\\nand experience. We have, however, boldly assumed as the foun-\\ndation of our institution the principles, the tests, and the respon-\\nsibilities of universities as they are everywhere recognized, but\\nwithout making any claim for the prestige or favor which age\\nimparts to all things.\\nIt has, therefore, been our purpose to lay our foundation\\nbroad, and strong, and deep. In this we must necessarily lack the\\nsimple element of years. W^e have what we believe to be more\\nvaluable, the vast storehouse of the knowledore and learning which\\nhave been accumulating for the centuries that have gone before", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0027.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "us, availing ourselves of the privileges of drawing from this source,\\nopen to all alike. We propose to go to further and higher\\nachievements. We propose to put into the hands of those who\\nare members of the university, engaged in its several departments,\\nevery facility which money can command, to the extent of our\\nability, in the way of apparatus and appliances that can in any\\nway promote our object in this direction. To our present depart-\\nments we propose to add others from time to time, as our means\\nshall warrant and the exigencies of the university shall seem to\\ndemand, always taking those first whose domain lies nearest to\\nthose already established, until the full scope and purpose of the\\nuniversity shall have been accomplished.\\nThese benefits and advantages thus briefly outlined, we pro-\\npose placing at the service of those who from time to time seek\\nin good faith and honesty of purpose to pursue the study of\\nscience in its purity and to engage in scientific research and in-\\nvestigation to such they are offered as far as possible, free from\\nall trammels and hindrances, without any religious, political, or\\nsocial tests. All that will be required of any applicant will be\\nevidence, disclosed by examinations or otherwise, that his attain-\\nments are such as to qualify him for the position which he seeks.\\nThe formal address of the day was then delivered by Presi-\\ndent Hall, who was followed by Senator George F. Hoar, the\\nRev. Edward Everett Hale, and Hon. John D. Washburn. The\\nfirst named gave a scholarly presentation of the need of higher\\neducation in pure science, prefixing his discourse by an historical\\nreference to the university and its founder which may properly\\nbe quoted here as an authentic statement of facts. On this point\\nPresident Hall said:\\nOur history begins more than twenty years ago in the plans\\nof a reticent and sagacious man, whose leave we cannot here await\\nto speak of, who in affluence maintains the simple and regular", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0028.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "mode of life inbred in the plain New England home of his boy-\\nhood plans that have steadily grown with his fortune and that have\\nbeen followed and encouraged with an eager and growing interest,\\nwhich extended to even minor items, by the devoted companion of\\nhis life. Besides a large fund already placed to our account, he\\nhas given his experience and unremitting daily care, worth to us\\nlarge sums in economies and resulting in well-appointed buildings\\nand a solidity of materials and a thoroughness of workmanship\\nwhich, I believe, are without a parallel of their cost and kind in\\nthe country.\\nNot only in the multifarious work of the university office, its\\nmethods of estimates, orders, bookkeeping, of individual account-\\nability for all books, apparatus, supplies, and furniture, but in the\\nlarger questions of university polity without, and effective admin-\\nistration within, in the definition of duty for each ofiFicer, the strict\\nsubordination and the concentration of authorit)- and responsibility\\nsure to appeal to all who have the instinct of discipline, and which\\nare exceptionally needful where the life of science is to be so free\\nand the policy so independent; in the express exemption, too, of\\nall instructors who can sustain the ardor of research from excessive\\nteaching and examination, in the appointment of assistants in a\\nway to keep each member of the staff at his best work, and to\\navoid the too common and wasteful practice in American uni-\\nversities of letting four-thousand dollar men do four-hundred dollar\\nwork; in the ample equipment of each department that no force be\\nlost on inferior tools in all these and in many other respects the\\nideal of our founder has been to make everywhere an independent\\napplication of the simplest and severest, but also the largest prin-\\nciples of business economy.\\nAs business absorbs more and more of the talent and energy\\nof the world, its consideration more and more pervading if not\\nsubordinating, whether for better or worse, not only the arts, the\\nschool, the press, but all departments of church and state, making\\npeace and war, cities or deserts, so science is slowly pervading\\nand profoundly modifying literature, philosophy, education, re-\\nligion, and every domain of culture. Both at their best have", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0029.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "dangers and are severe schools of integrity. The directness,\\nsimplicity, certainty, and absorption in work so characteristic of\\nboth are setting new fashions in manners and even in morals,\\nand bringing man into closer contact with the world as it is.\\nBoth are binding the universe together into new unities and\\nimposing a discipline ever severer for body and mind. When\\ntheir work, purified of deceit and error, is finished the period\\nof history we now call modern will be rounded to complete-\\nness; culture will have abandoned much useless luggage; the\\nchasm between instruction and education will be less disastrous,\\nand all the highest and most sacred of human ideals will not\\nbe lost or dimmed, but will become nearer and more real.\\nWhen one who has graduated with highest honors from this\\nvigorous school of business, after spending eight years of travel\\nabroad studying the means by which knowledge and culture, the\\nmost precious riches of the race, are increased and transmitted,\\nand finding no reason why our country, which so excels in busi-\\nness, should be content with the second best in science, devotes\\nto its services not onl) his fortune at the end of his life, but\\nyears yet full of exceptional and unabated energy, we see in\\nsuch a fact not only the normal, complete, if you please, post-\\ngraduate ethical maturity- of an individual business life, but also\\na type and promise of what wealth now seems likeh to do for\\nhigher education in America. It is no marvel that our founda-\\ntion has already been so often, so conspicuously and so favorably\\nnoted in authoritative ways and places in an European land\\nwhere, if monarchy should yield to a republic, university culture\\ncould not penetrate its people as it now does. It is thus a more t)p-\\nical and vital product of the national life at its best than are foun-\\ndations made by state or church in which to train their servants.\\nIn thus giving his fortune to a single highest end as sagacious-\\nly and actively as he has acquired it, may our founder find a new\\ncompleteness of life in age, which Cicero did not know, and taste\\nall the joy that lies\\nIn a full self-sacrifice.", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0030.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "As a synopsis of his well-spent life, his generosity and noble\\ndevotion to the cause of the higher knowledge and of human\\nprogress, this presentation by Dr. Hall is so admirable that it\\nleaves but little further to be said. When the purpose of Mr.\\nClark was first announced, said Senator Hoar, speaking on the\\noccasion referred to above, there were many people who thought\\nit would have been better to enlarge the resources of some exist-\\ning college. But as his plans have gradually unfolded, such\\ncritics have become satisfied, not only that this university can do its\\nwork without jar or friction with any other, but that the time has\\ncome when a work should be done in this country which it may\\nnot be wholly convenient for any other just now to undertake.\\nIn the decade that has passed since these words were spoken\\nnot only has criticism upon Mr. Clark s act been absolutely\\nsilenced, but recognition of it has become general. The Register\\nand Tenth Official Announcement of the university shows a\\ngroup of five closely related departments in admirable working\\norder namely. Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and\\nPsychology, to the last named of which a sub-department on\\nPedagogy has recently been added. There is, in addition, a library\\ncontaining about 17,000 bound volumes and 1500 pamphlets, and\\nreceiving for its reading-room about 200 journals.\\nThe decennial celebration of the University which closed July\\nloth, 1899, was made memorable by the presence of distinguished\\nsaz (7//s from the leading universities of Europe as well as America,\\nand was the occasion of heartiest congratulation from man) and\\neminent sources, a summary of which found expression in the\\naddress of Dr. G. Stanley Hall, a brief abstract of which follows:", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0031.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "No time in the history of the country could have been more\\nfavorable than the beginning of this period for a great and new\\nuniversity foundation. The epoch-making work of the Johns\\nHopkins University, for the preceding decade, had made Balti-\\nmore the brightest spot on the educational map of the country.\\nThe significance of the work of that institution can hardly be\\noverestimated. But financial clouds had already begun to threaten\\nthis great Southern luminary, and there were indications that if\\nthe great work it had begun was to be carried on, parts of it\\nat least must be transplanted to new fields. It was at this crisis\\nthat our munificent founder entered the field with the largest\\nsingle gift ever made to education in New England, and one\\nof the largest in the world, with the offer of more to come if\\nsufiicient co-operation was forthcoming.\\nHe selected Worcester as the site of his great enterprise\\nwith a loyalty to the region of his nativity worthy of the greatest\\nrespect and emulation, and in addition to the fulfilment of his\\npledges gave it the benefit of his own previous wide studies of\\neducation in Europe, and contributed wisely matured plans and\\nconstant personal oversight and labor for years. It is as strenu-\\nously engaged in this highest of all human endeavors that the\\nworld knows him, and that we shall remember him, and I am\\nsure that we all unite to-day, first of all, in sending him in the\\nretirement his ill-health demands (although it cannot assuage his\\ninterest to see the work of his hands prosper) our most cordial\\ngreetings and our most hearty congratulations.\\nMr. Clark married, October 6th, 1836, Miss Susan Wright, of\\nHubbardston, Mass. This noble woman has earnestly supple-\\nmented her husband s work by founding scholarships and fellow-\\nships, to be known as the Mrs. Jonas G. Clark fellowships and\\nscholarships, respectively, and in accord with her spirit, Mr.\\nClark himself likewise founded a number of scholarships dur-\\ning his life.", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a9bituav^.", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^T^bC XHdt IRitCS. Simplicity and dignity, which so well\\naccorded with the life and character of the late Jonas\\nOilman Clark, characterized the last honors to the dead, the\\npublic benefactor whose life-work has crowned Worcester and\\nextended her fame the world over.\\nA distinguished and representative gathering of citizens from\\nthe city he had blest by his benefactions, and from other places\\nwhere he had won love and respect by his life of industry,\\nintegrity, and benevolence, assembled on the afternoon of May\\n26th, to pay the last public tribute of affection and esteem at\\nthe funeral services held at his home, 39 Elm Street, Worces-\\nter, Mass.\\nIn compliance with Mr. Clark s expressed wish, the services\\nwere very simple and without ostentation of any sort.\\nThere was the gathering of friends and business associates,\\nprominent citizens of Worcester and other cities, professors,\\ninstructors, and students at Clark University, and the customary\\nservices of the church.\\nThe services were conducted by Rev. Calvin Stebbins, former\\npastor of the Church of the Unity, of which Mr. Clark was a\\nmember, assisted by Rev. Frank L. Phalen, the present pastor.\\nThe casket rested in the large central reception-room, near", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "the main staircase, at the foot of which the two clergymen stood\\nand uttered their words of comfort and consolation.\\nThe Scripture reading was by Rev. Mr. Phalen. Rev. Mr.\\nStebbins offered prayer, and then gave an appreciative address\\non Mr. Clark s life, character, and achievements.\\nAt the committal service at the grave Rev. Mr. Stebbins\\noffered a short prayer. The burial was in Rural Cemetery.\\nThe honorary bearers were: Dr. G. Stanley Hall, president\\nof Clark University; Senator George F. Hoar, Stephen Salisbury,\\nDr. Thomas H. Gage, Dr. William E. Strong, of Clark Univer-\\nsity, William E. Rice, Dr. Thomas C. Mendenhall, president of\\nWorcester Polytechnic Institute; Mayor Rufus B. Dodge, Jr.,\\nLincoln N. Kinnicutt, and James P. Hamilton.", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "-J\\nHbbrees*", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0037.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0038.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "abt\u00c2\u00bbre08 of tbe IRcv. Calvin Stebbins,\\na former minister of tbe Cburcb of tbe Clnits, lUorcceter, /Rase.\\nNothing appears so transitory and fleeting as the life of man\\nwhen compared with the apparent permanence of his surround-\\nings. Indeed his most enduring works, which long survive the\\nbuilder, are a matter of yesterday when compared with a geo-\\nlogical epoch.\\nThe brevity of human life has been the theme of sermon and\\nsong for ages. The Hebrew preacher tells us very mournfully\\nthat the generations of men come and go, but the earth abideth\\nforever, and a modern poet makes the brook sing in triumph\\nas it hurries on to the ocean\\nMen may come, and men may go,\\nBut I flow on forever.\\nBut thinofs are not as thev seem. There is a sense in which\\nman has something like an earthly immortality. The generations\\ncome and go, but they do not take all of themselves with them\\nin their going. They leave something behind them for weal or\\nwoe to those who come after them. The possibilities of life in\\nthis Western world are great, and ever and anon comes a man", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0039.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "of power who illustrates this principle, leaves a benediction to\\nthe world and makes an impression upon intellectual and moral\\nlife, which goes ringing down through the shifting scenes of time\\nand the coming and going generations of men.\\nA diffident and reticent boy in one of our country towns\\nbeo-ins life as a hard worker at a hard trade. He becomes in-\\nterested in his work and his experience widens his thought.\\nHis judgment leads him into new branches of business and\\ninto wider fields of action. He becomes, in time, a thoroughly\\nequipped man of business who does not shrink from great trans-\\nactions and who understands the influences that affect the rise\\nand fall of real property in the market.\\nBy honorable and straightforward means and sound judg-\\nment he acquires what men call a fortune. It is a great thing\\nto have acquired a fortune. It is the measure of so much toil\\nand frugality and self-sacrifice. But over and beyond this there\\nhas been growing a sense of the moral responsibility of wealth.\\nAlong with years of patient labor there have been years of\\npatient thought and study. A great ideal had been growing and\\nat last an attempt was made to make it a reality. It is not time\\nyet, and this is not the place to speak of the realization of his\\nlong-cherished hope.\\nThe influence of a great institution of learning cannot be\\nestimated any more than you can measure the effect of the sun-\\nlight on the trees or field, or weigh the sweet influence of the\\nstars on the mind of a thoughtful beholder. Its influence, like the\\ninfluence of the great law of gravitation, is silent, but unlike that\\nlaw it cannot be estimated because it works in the world of minds.", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "An institution founded on the principles thus far pursued\\nat Clark University comes to the realization of its power and\\ninfluence, as the Kingdom of God comes to earth, without\\nany show that it should be watched for. But if the first decade\\nof its existence can be taken as an indication of what is to be\\nin the future, Founder s Day at the end of a century will be a\\nday commemorated not only within academic walls, but where-\\never a silent worker is endeavorino- to read in the ereat manu-\\nscript of God, which we call nature, and in that more wonderful\\nbook of human nature.\\nMr. Clark s generosity was along great lines. With him fru-\\ngality was the mother of munificence, and he held himself, what-\\never may have been his private feelings, steadily to one purpose,\\nand that purpose was a great one fraught with incalculable bene-\\nfits. He was a man who had high ideas of moral relations in\\nbusiness and in life. He was very reticent, seldom took others\\ninto his confidence, and seldom went into co-operation with other\\nmen. He seems to have felt himself strong enough to accom-\\nplish any and all of his purposes. He had at all times and every-\\nwhere the manners and habits of a gentleman indeed, his man-\\nners were illustrations of his character. He loved to do business\\nand he loved to do it on a large scale, but he did not forget\\nthe culture of mind and heart, so often forgotten by business men.\\nHe was a lover of books, and had remarkable judgment in\\ntheir selection and an exquisite taste for fine bindings. In his\\nhandling of books one could see that he felt that, as Milton has\\nsaid, a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit\\nembalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "He was an industrious and intelligent reader and easily put him-\\nself in accord with the great authors.\\nThere are things as well as persons that hold us in life be-\\ncause we love them, and parting with them is hard. Among\\nthe very last things Mr. Clark spoke of were his books. It was\\ncharacteristic, his last thoughts were with the immortals.\\nHe brought to everything that interested him the enthusiasm\\nof a boy as well as the wisdom of a man of affairs. At the\\nbreaking out of the rebellion, California was a very doubtful\\nState. He felt the importance of the great principles involved\\nin the issue and gave liberally of his money and devoted all his\\ngreat powers as an organizer to the cause of the Union, which\\nhe felt was sacred.\\nMr. Clark has left a splendid record as a business man and\\na citizen. It is an unsullied record of honesty and personal in-\\ntegrity of great powers guided by sound judgment, of gener-\\nosity inspired by the noble purpose of advancing learning for the\\namelioration of man s estate.\\nThe religious tone and temper of the household is well ex-\\npressed in a favorite hymn\\nBehold the western evening light\\nIt melts in deepening gloom:\\nSo calm the righteous sink away,\\nDescending to the tomb.\\nThe winds breathe low; the yellow leaf\\nScarce whispers from the tree\\nSo gently Hows the parting breath.\\nWhen good men cease to be.", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "How beautiful, on all the hills,\\nThe crimson light is shed\\nTis like the peace the dying gives\\nTo mourners round his bed.\\nHow mildly, on the wandering cloud,\\nThe sunset beam is cast!\\nSo sweet the memory left behind,\\nWhen loved ones breathe their last.\\nAnd lo above the dews of night\\nThe vesper star appears\\nSo faith lights up the mourner s heart\\nWhose eyes are dim with tears.\\nNight falls; but soon the morning light\\nIts glories shall restore:\\nAnd thus the eyes that sleep in death\\nShall wake to close no more.", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "IResolutions.", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0046.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "^be faculty of dlavU lllniversit^.\\nAt a meeting of the Faculty of Clark University, May 24th,\\nthe following action was taken\\nWe desire to record our deep sorrow at the death of the\\nfounder of the University. His philanthropy, expressed by a\\ngift then larger than any other in the history of education, es-\\ntablished here an institution which has so far been unique as\\ndevoted solely to graduate work. He has not only taken a deep\\npersonal interest in the scientific work of the University in\\ngeneral and in each instructor, but given unremitting personal\\nattention to nearly every detail of the library for which he made\\nspecial and most liberal provision, and to the grounds and also\\nto the buildings of which he planned and personally directed\\nthe construction.\\nIt was also voted\\nThat the special sympathy of the Faculty be extended\\nto Mrs. Clark, to whom the secretary was instructed to\\nforward a copy of this action.\\nIt was voted\\nThat all regular exercises of the University be sus-\\npended and the flag kept at half mast till after the\\nfuneral, and that the building be suitabl)- draped.\\nWILLIA^r E. Storv,\\nSecretary of the Faculty.", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0047.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "Communication to tbe Jfacult^.\\nWorcester, Mass., May 24th, 1900.\\nTo the Faculty of Clark University:\\nDesiring to make an expression of our sympathy for Mrs.\\nClark in her deep bereavement, because of the death of her\\nhusband, and also to pay our tribute to the memory of the man\\nwho has done so much for our own and the interests of higher\\neducation, we beg to communicate to you the accompanying\\nresolution of the student body and to ask you to transmit to\\nMrs. Clark our expression in whatever manner and form you\\nmay think best.\\nRespectfully submitted,\\nFrank B. Williams, 1\\nNorman Triplett,\\nI- Loi)i))iittee.\\nP. W. Search,\\nJ. E. Ives,", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0048.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "IResoIutions of tbe Stu^ent0 of dlarl^ lllnivcrsiti? on tbe\\n^eatb of its fOlm^er, fIDr. 3onas (5. Claris.\\nRecognizing the high worth of the opportunit}- conferred on\\nus by the philanthropic enterprise of our university s founder,\\nwe, the students of Clark University, desire to express to Mrs.\\nClark our profound sympathy in this hour of suffering caused by\\nthe death of her husband and our friend and benefactor, Mr,\\nJonas G. Clark.\\nWe also desire to express our deep appreciation of the great\\nvalue of this university, planned, founded, equipped, and con-\\nducted for the higher training of men. To us the university\\nhas been full of inspiration and enriching opportunity. It meets\\nour needs in our desire for original investigation, personal asso-\\nciation, and higher traininy-.\\nWe take pride in the high position accorded Clark Univer-\\nsity in the educational circles of the world, and desire to pay our\\ntribute to the memory and worth of the noble man who has made\\nthese things possible.\\nClark University,\\nMay 24th, 1900.", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0049.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "Morcester IRational Banft.\\nSpecial Oseetim, *as 25tb, 1900.\\nThe following action in regard to the death of Mr. Jonas G.\\nClark, proposed by the President, Mr. Salisbury, was unanimously\\nadopted\\nThe Directors of the Worcester National Bank are called upon\\nto meet the loss of one of their number whose large experience\\nand cautious judgment made him useful in a high degree to the\\npolicy and standing of the bank. Jonas G. Clark became a\\ndirector in 1885, in the maturity of his life, accustomed to large\\noperations and with a mind quickened by large acquaintance with\\nthe men who have shaped the conduct of events. The position\\nseemed congenial to his tastes, and certainly his associates were\\nmuch aided by his participation in their action.\\nThe Directors remember the constant urbanity and courtesy\\nof Mr. Clark in all his intercourse with them and with others\\nwith whom he was thrown.\\nThe great purpose of his life, the higher education and ele-\\nvation of man, determined upon at the height of his prosperity\\nand usefulness, led him to seek an opportunity for putting his\\nplan into operation.", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0050.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "By travel and observation Mr. Clark at length decided upon\\na course of action and devoted his whole thought to this object.\\nThe result has been the creation of a university system en-\\ntirely unique in this country and having little resemblance to any\\ndepartment of institutions of learning of the old world.\\nThe development of this life-work of Mr. Clark took place\\nduring his connection with the Worcester National Bank, and it\\nwas a source of gratification that one of our number was able\\nto do so much for his time.\\nThe Directors desire to record their sense of personal loss\\nin the companionship of a man of so wide an experience of life,\\nand the hope that the grief of Mrs. Clark may be somewhat\\nassuaged with the reflection that Providence has permitted this\\nhappy union to remain unbroken for so many years.", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0051.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "public Xibrar^ Committee.\\nIbubbarOdton, /IRass.\\nWhereas, The Wise Ruler of the universe has taken from\\nus our kind friend and benefactor, Jonas Gihnan Clark, who\\nerected and presented the beautiful building which is now the\\nhome of our public library, and\\nWhereas, His continued interest in the library has from time\\nto time prompted him to confer large gifts of money and books\\ntherefore be it\\nResolved, That we hereby acknowledge with deep gratitude\\nhis numerous bequests with the assurance that his memory will\\nbe held by us in highest esteem, with the wish that the build-\\ning may stand as an enduring monument to his kind generosity;\\nResolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the\\nwidow of the late Mr. Clark, and also spread upon the records\\nof our Association.\\nJ. Harry Allen,\\nWm. H. Wheeler,\\nCharles Grimes,\\nLois E. Warren,\\nGranville Marean,\\nAllen S. Woodward.\\nLibrary\\nCommittee.\\nHuBBARDSTON, Mass., May 25th, 1900.", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0052.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "Xlvibutee.", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0053.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0054.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "Jfrom tbc TKIlorcester Sp\\\\\\n/IftaB 24tb, 1900.\\nJonas Gilman Clark, whose death occurred at his home on\\nElm Street last evening, will always be remembered as the founder\\nof the great university that bears his name. His death will be\\nas sincerely mourned in every educational centre of the world as\\nin the community where he has passed the best and brightest\\nyears of his life best in that here he conceived and executed\\nthe great purpose of his life, and brightest in that he lived to\\nsee its blessings spread around the world.\\nMr. Clark was a rare type of New England manhood, self-\\nmade, the master of circumstances, and the sole architect of his\\nown fortunes. From his boyhood in Hubbardston through his\\nyouth and young manhood, while acquiring and working at his\\ntrade of carriage builder, his main characteristic was thorough-\\nness and a determination to excel in whatever he attempted.\\nIn later years he was fond of mildly boasting that he could\\nmake any part of a carriage as well or better than any workman\\nhe could find. While not a vain man, he believed in himself,\\nin his own purpose, his convictions and his methods. With a\\nmasterly grasp of detail, he united a capacity to think broadly", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0055.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "alono- all lines in which he was interested, and was an apt learner\\nfrom the failures and successes of others.\\nOf simple habits, untiring energy, and devotion to business,\\nprivate and public, and commanding the respect and confidence\\nof all with whom he came in contact by his firm honesty and\\nuprightness, it was inevitable that he should amass a fortune in\\ncomparatively a few years.\\nChildless and with a keen responsibility attaching to his\\nwealth, it was natural that his thoughts should turn back to\\nWorcester County, his early home. It is well known by those\\nwho were near to him that he first planned to build a college\\nin Worcester where Worcester County boys could acquire a col-\\nlege training at less cost and with fewer temptations to the sin\\nof extravagance than in the older and larger institutions of\\nNew England.\\nHis later travel and study of foreign institutions, especially\\nuniversities of Germany, coupled with the strenuous advice of\\nhis friends, Andrew D. White of Columbia, President Eliot of\\nHarvard, G. Stanley Hall, and other leaders of thought and\\neducation, persuaded him to change his plans and to laj the\\nfoundation of a university that should make a post-graduate\\ncourse in higher education and original research possible without\\nthe expense of time and money in foreign lands.\\nWithout dwelling upon the great achievements already accom-\\nplished by the university which bears his name and to which\\nfive of the foremost representatives of the leading universities\\nof Europe gave their remarkable testimony by their presence at\\nthe decennial celebration, last July, it is a matter for rejoicing", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0056.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "that, although not able to take part in the decennial exercises,\\nhe watched and noted from his sick-room in Princeton, with\\ngrowing pleasure and satisfaction, the local recognition of the\\noccasion and the grateful testimony of the press and the foreign\\nvisitors, of the record made and the great future promise of the\\ninstitution he alone had founded and endowed so munificently.\\nIt was his lot to bear with wonderful fortitude great physical\\nsuffering during the last months of his life.\\nThere is neither time nor place here for eulogy. The fitting\\nwords to close his earthly career yet remain to be spoken by\\nthose who shared his thoughts and joined with him in the\\nrealization of the purpose to which he so generously and nobly\\nconsecrated not only his wealth, but almost his every thought\\nfor more than a decade, since the first announcement was made\\nthat Jonas G. Clark had given to Worcester a university des-\\ntined to rival in its own peculiar field the best the world has\\never known.", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0057.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "Jfrom tbc Morcester jevenino (Basette,\\n/Iftas 24tb, 1900.\\nMr. Clark s achievements are truly remarkable. The accumu-\\nlation of a great fortune was not of itself so wonderful, for many\\nAmericans of his generation were able to rise to equal heights\\nfrom fully as small beginnings. But the ideals conceived by\\nthe man were so lofty as to astound one who realized their origin.\\nHe conceived of a university without a parallel in this coun-\\ntry, whose scope and aims were to be wider and higher than it\\nwould seem possible for an unprofessional man to comprehend.\\nHe gave his heart and soul, body and mind to the fulfilment\\nof that ideal. He travelled and studied until he had so thorough\\na grasp of the subject that he astonished the eminent educators\\nwith whom he consulted. He realized every detail of the needs\\nof such an institution as he desired to establish.\\nThis thoroughness and energy resulted in the founding of a\\nuniversity which, in the short space of ten years, and hampered\\nby many trying conditions, has taken a position at the forefront\\nof the world s great educational establishments. Its scope is\\nconfined to the most recondite study and work. Only a limited\\nnumber will ever be drawn by its attractions. But such work as", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0058.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "it makes possible is essential to the possession of the greatest\\namount of knowledge, and the presence in America of such an\\ninstitution is a constant stimulus to the best intellectual endeavor.\\nWith greater resources the importance of this work can be\\ngreatly increased, and with the passing of the years Clark Uni-\\nversity should move from among the best to the very head of\\nits class.\\nThat is what Jonas G. Clark accomplished; a result not sur-\\npassed by any American. Worcester was honored to a great\\ndegree in being chosen as the place in which to carry out such\\na noble plan. The people of Worcester should not forget this,\\nand should always hold in high reverence the memory of the\\nman who did so much and who suffered so much.", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0059.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "jfroni tbc Morcester \u00c2\u00a9ailv ^eleoram,\\n^afi 24tb, 1900.\\nWorcester owes its greatest educational institution to Jonas\\nG. Clarl\\nClark University is his creation. Mr. Clark had been look-\\ning about for a long time to find the best use for his great\\nwealth. The university appealed to him as a great source of\\ngood to humanity.\\nSo he studied universities. He went to all modern universi-\\nties and examined into their methods. He went to the ancient\\nseats of learning, and studied their methods and scope so far as\\nhe could, and their libraries. He took deep interest in the\\nbooks of the ancients and of the scholars of the middle ages.\\nMany such are in his house on Elm Street or stored in safe-\\ndeposit vaults. He hit upon the highest possible courses of\\nstudy and research as the most valuable, and determined the\\nuniversity he was to create should be on the highest plane. It\\nwas the result of his visits to Thebes, Heliopolis, Memphis,\\nAlexandria, Jerusalem, Constantinople, and Athens.\\nTen years had passed by last year, and the results of the\\n$2,000,000 invested by Mr. Clark in the University were sub-", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0060.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "stantial dividends in the form of work accomplished for the\\nadvancement of science and the sending out into the world of\\nbright and trained men to continue the good work of higher\\neducation. The presence of distinguished savants from European\\nuniversities marked the decennial celebration. IVIr. Clark could\\nnot himself be present, for his age had already brought with it\\nfailing health, and he was physically unable to attend the exer-\\ncises and see with. his own eyes and hear with his own ears\\nwhat had been accomplished and in what appreciation his good\\nwork is held b) the men who know best the real fruits of such\\nan educational tree.", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0061.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "jfrom tbe Morcester jEveniUG ipost,\\n/IftaB 24tb, 1900.\\nJonas G. Clark, who died at his palatial residence on Elm\\nStreet last evening, aged 85 years, was a genuine type of the\\nAmerican self-made man.\\nBy untiring energy and shrewd business capacity he accumu-\\nlated a large fortune. Part of this he donated for public pur-\\nposes prior to his death.\\nTo his native Hubbardston he gave a town hall and public\\nlibrary, which he has endowed. It is to Worcester, however,\\nthat Mr. Clark gave his biggest gift. To this city he has been\\na generous benefactor. Clark University will perpetuate his\\nname, and future generations of Worcester people will remember\\nhim gratefully as the founder of an educational institution that\\nis known the world over.\\nMr. Clark possessed the strong New England character, which,\\ncombined with his native thrift and shrewdness, gave him a\\nbreadth of view and ability to achieve and execute, and made him\\na power and a leader among men. Of great modesty, he was\\nthe urbane Christian gentlemen and scholar. His love of learn-\\ning was a marked characteristic of his nature, and free from all", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0062.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "cant, hypocrisy, or religious prejudice, he believed in the good\\nof mankind. His wish was to elevate and uplift man, and to\\ndisseminate human knowledge and make his fellow men happier\\nand wiser, as his wealth directed.\\nTo his broad philanthropy and generosity of heart, Clark\\nUniversity is a monument which will make his name revered for\\nall time, and held in affectionate esteem by the city of Worcester,\\nwhich has so richly profited by his benefactions.", "height": "2925", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0063.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "jfvoni 2)r. ^5. Stanlev^ Iball,\\npieelScnt of Clarh lIliilveisitB.\\nThe following interview with Dr. Hall appeared in the\\nWorcester Spy on the morning following Mr. Clark s death\\nI have been fearing and anticipating this sad event for several\\nweeks, and it is a source of gi-eat personal regret. Our associa-\\ntions have been extremely close. Until his illness caused him\\ngradually to withdraw, his interest in the University was keen\\nand earnest.\\nFor more than six months before and during the building\\nof the University I lived at his house. I never saw a man\\nwhose whole soul went deeper into an enterprise, or one who\\nshowed more self-sacrifice and devotion. He had incubated in\\nprivate this university scheme, and it was years before he made\\nit known. He planned to make it the chief work of his declining\\nyears. His great mastery of practical details was both an educa-\\ntion and an inspiration to me. For years hardly a day passed\\nthat he did not visit the institution intent upon some improve-\\nment in building, grounds, plans, or work.\\nHe selected with rare sagacity his board of trustees, and\\nthese gentlemen have ably and devotedly stood by the University\\nin all its vicissitudes. They have had, perhaps it is not improper\\nfor me to say, as their leading object the carrying out of his\\npurposes.", "height": "2894", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "inmemoriamjonasg00clar_0064.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "In general, Mr. Clark showed singular sagacity in leaving to\\nexpert knowledge the educational policy of the University.\\nHighly as he was respected in Worcester, I have always had\\nthe feeling that his best and highest qualities were not as well\\nknown as they should be. I am sure that widely as his name\\nand University are known, both will grow and brighten through\\nthe coming years.\\nThe University, its plan, material equipment, personnel, pros-\\npects, success, lay close to his heart and were carried on his\\nmind incessantly almost literally I might say day and night.\\nHe was exquisitely sensitive to every breath of critical praise\\nor blame from far and near. He read or heard read probably every\\nword that the Worcester press has printed about the University.\\nEven the voluminous reports of the Summer School lectures\\nhad for him the liveliest interest. He strove, too, to know\\nsomethino- of the contents of the bio- book that we issued in\\nconnection with the decennial celebration last summer.\\nI have heard men of other States who were personally ac-\\nquainted with Mr. Clark speak of him in the highest terms when\\ndiscussing his business, charitable, and social relations. 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