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is a serious question whether the insect world is not going to get the better of us.”
After his painful death at the Massachusetts Hospital in September, 1896, the president and fellows of the university voted to set apart little Holden Chapel, the oldest building on the college grounds, and yet one of the most dignified, for an English library dedicated to the memory of Francis J. Child.
Such an honor had never been decreed for president or professor before; and it gives him the distinction that we all feel he deserved.
It is much more appropriate to him, and satisfactory than a marble statue in Saunders Theatre would have been, or a stained-glass window in Memorial Hall.
Yet his presence still lingers in the memory of his friends, like the fragrance of his own roses, after the petals have fallen from their stems.
1905. E. P. DUtton and Co. Boston,.
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