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meeting of the Board of Trustees the following minute regard-
ing him was adopted. The Board hereby record their
deep sense of the loss sustained by this University in the
death of the Reverend John Hugh Macherras, M.A.
for fifteen years Professor of Classics.
Professor Macherras had very closely endeared
himself to all the Members of the Board. By his
transparent candour, his sterling integrity, and his
unassuming kindness, he drew forth the esteem and
affection of all his acquaintence, and in his relations to others
whether private or official, he seemed ever to be without fear
and without reproach.
A distinguished graduate of the University, he brought
to the discharge of his professional duties a passionate
attachment to his Alma Mater. His work
as a teacher was marked by the scholarship, by
thoroughness and by enthusiams, as well as by keen
and constant interest in the welfare of his students.
When the efficiency of the
University was crippled, and its existence threatened by
the withdrawal of a large part of its income, he entered
with ardent energy upon the work of raising an endow-
ment. Quickening others into zeal and hopefulness,
he elicited a widespread sympathy and support
for the cause which he so earnestly advocated

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