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standard set by Prof. Anderson for his
department.
This stone which we here dedicate
to the memory of Professor Anderson
takes its place with the Chamberlin and
Van Hise boulders as memorials to
past worthies of the university. It is
reminiscent of the character of the
dead, solid, plain and enduring.
Footsteps of hundreds of distinguished and
undistinguished alike have pressed its
surface in pilgrimage to the hospitable
and cultured Anderson home, yet left
no mark upon it, footsteps that may
now be recalled by association alone.
The massive mind of John Fiske, in a
moment of aberration, once contemplated
it and sought its signs of
authenticity as a viking craft, which
Dr. Anderson happily fancied it.
Like the bautas of old that the faring
vikings reared now and then to
their fallen chieftains in some strand
burial or battle sepulture, this like
memorial is reared in our mere degenerate
day on a sightly point overlooking
the blue waters of Mendota, in the
bosom of the university soil the dead
loved and honored, playfully imagining
that his spirit may occasionally
come here to brood and fancying that,
like his Stavanger forbears of the past;
he overlooks the broad breast of the
far-fading sea.
This memoriol, Mr. President Emeritus,
I now have the honor—a proud as
well as a melancholy one—to present
to the university in behalf of the
Sandinavian section of the centennial
committee of 1936, confident that it will be
duly cherished and preserved as an
enduring monument in years to come,
not only to the distinguished scholar it
commemorates, but to the great
university itself of which he was an
ornament.
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