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Title: The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Alpha Tau Omega
Subjects: Greek letter societies
Publisher: (Champaign, Ill., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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ore received so many tributes from so many differentbrothers to the memory of a dead brother. They came from Northand from South and each was expressive of admiration and lovefor the dead and of deep personal grief, and our only fear is thatwe may not be able to do him justice with our weak words. There is no more eloquent voice among the wearers of theMaltese Cross than Bishop Gailor of Tennessee, and it is fittingthat we should reproduce here his feeling tribute to our dead.The occasion was the morning service on Thursday, September23rd, 1897, in the University Chapel, at Sewanee, and we repro-duce the substance of his remarks from the Daily States, of NewOrleans, of Oct. 18th, 1897. Gentlemen of the University:—It is my sad and sacred dutyto announce to you the death of one of our best beloved Alumni,Dr. Joseph M. Lovell, of New Orleans, who passed to his restyesterday, the 22nd inst., in the twenty-seventh year of his age. In a special and peculiar sense Dr. Lovell was a Sewanee
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DR. JOSEPH M. LOVELL. BRO. JOSEPH M. LOVELL. 21 boy, a Sewanee man. Here he learned his letters and was pre-pared for the grammar school. From the grammar school heentered the University and was graduated with honor in 1888. As a boy in the grammar school, as a junior in the Univers-ity, as a gownsman and as a University proctor, on the play-ground and in the class room, in the discharge of every duty, andin the responsibility of every position, he exhibited the samesterling qualities of sincerity, truth, manliness, reverence, gen-erosity, sympathy and courage. His fellow students loved himwithout exception; his professors respected and honored him.The singular, I might also say the boundless, magnetism of hispersonality defied logical analysis, because it was simple genius,the genius of manly and straightforward goodness. He was sostrong and yet so gentle. He actually hated meanness and vice,and yet he was so full of sympathy and charity for those whofell. He was so greatly, so widel

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