Tune: "Sally Horner."

Enclosed with letter dated 2nd September, 1933, from Mr. Diamond Jenness, Head of Anthropological Section, Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa.

"A new student, timid but amazingly ambitious, once knocked at the door of Professor J. R. Brown's study and requested help in mapping out his course. He had a slight smattering of Latin, and through Emerson he knew the names of two philosophers, Plato and Aristotle, whose works he proposed to master in the original Greek. Could he begin right away?

A characteristic smile lit up the professor's face. He did not say that even he had not completely mastered them, and that I certainly never would. But he laid aside the Pausanias he was reading, lauded my ambition and carefully mapped out the road.

Thirty years have gone by since then, and I can still see him in his class-room, lifting us over some grammatical stumbling block or illustrating Greek and Roman history by parallels from modern times. His scholarship was as deep as his manner was unassuming, and his kindness and patience were inexhaustible. Every student who needed advice or help unconsciously took the road to his study. Sometimes we may not have appreciated his scholarship, or we may have taken too much for granted his kindliness and the unsparing inroads he allowed us to make on his leisure; but what we never failed to perceive was a deep wisdom that made him our infallible guide. Though some of us have travelled far since those years, our happiest memories linger round the days when we sat at his feet."