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Excerpt from The Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 1: June, 1900
Dear Sim - Miss Park requests me to thank you for your kind letter of May 7, which gave her father much pleasure. When we said You can comply with the request and send a message, even if you cannot be present at commencement, he bowed his head in assent, but his eyes were full of tears and he dared not trust himself to speak. He grad nally grew weaker, and at no time since then has he been able to dictate the message that was in his heart to give. Monday afternoon, june 4, there came a sudden change, and at 4 o'clock p. M. The tired brain rested and the heart ceased to beat. During all the past years he has always manifested a deep interest in whatever concerned Brown Uni versity; has listened eagerly to any item of news in regard to its welfare; has rejoiced in its increasing prosperity and usefulness, and sorrowed that it was not in his power to do more for the institution that he loved. I am sure it would gratify him could he know that an expression of his loyalty and good will had been sent to the university, though not as he intended or in the words that he would have chosen. Regretting that you could not have a message from Professor Park's own lips. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.