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because of his versatile musical abilities, was appointed by President
Brooks to be director of music. He was past president of the North
Carolina and Southern Glee Club associations. As director of the
State College band, he won the praise of John Philip Sousa. A fine
moral influence, the dean of students and the president of the College
leaned upon him as he lived his friendly life close to the center of the
musical, athletic, and campus life of State College students who loved
him and will always remember him as "Daddy Price."

Walter Dallam Toy, eminent linguist in a family of notable
linguists, was for forty-eight years head of the German Department
and forty-three years secretary of the faculty of the University at
Chapel Hill; scholar, teacher, gentleman, of quietly humorous and
penetrating insight, ever a courtly presence, reminiscent of the best
of the old South, graciously softening the strident noises of the new.
In his declining years he asked no quarter of his high conception of
his duty. Against the solicitude of his family, he went to the opening
faculty meeting this past fall as a stricken soldier going back into
the line to make his last stand. The faculty, seeing him rise to make
a motion, broke into affectionate applause whose sweet remembrance
he cherished in those last days when he quietly slipped away to join
the deathless fellowship of teachers and students. He teaches on as
we remember him.

William Battle Cobb was Professor of Agronomy at the State
College and a recognized authority on soils. This shy scholar in these
years of deep salary cuts, heavy drainage upon body and mind, of
frustrations of plans and hopes, went on quietly pounding away at
the fundamentals of the state's life. Though a sick man, he would
go to the soils convention in Chicago to give of himself and bring
back to his college and state the fruits of the latest researches. The
manuscript on soils which he had just completed is a monument to
his scientific scholarship and a useful legacy to State College and the
University in any plan for the reconstruction of the state by a people
whom he would have master their soils on the way to a mastery of
their destiny. By name and inheritance William Battle Cobb was
suggestive of the best of the old University, and by cultural and
scientific insight he was at the center of the purpose and potentialities
of State College in the manifold University of all the people.

Two other names of our recent and illustrious dead work mightily
to tie all three institutions together, George Tavloe Winston, Presi-