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Melville Cane
 

John Erskine, Acting President frank D. Fackcnthal, Melville C^ane, and Professor
Oscar J. Campbell, participating in a program honoring the memor\' of Professor
George 1'". Wbodberrv on Ala\' 12, 194S.

of the world, John Erskine will be remembered as a twentieth-
century humanist, a modern child of the Renaissance.

It gives me a personal pleasure to recall that eight years ago in
this very place we each paid memorial tribute to Cieorge Edward
Woodberry, our old teacher whose inspiration and idealism John
was to carry forward into his ow n life and teaching. This was his
final appearance at Columbia.

It was to Woodberry, our most popular professor, that w c ded¬
icated our senior year-book, the "Nausjhty Naughtian," w ith the
following quatrain:

One who took manhood for his Art,
Taught it by manliness so rare.
We keep his lessons in our heart.
But first of all he entered there.

These lines, which are John's, 1 now rededicate to his memory.
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