PRESENT PORTRAIT OF PROFESSOR NORTON

At a meeting held in the Faculty Room of University Hall yesterday afternoon, Professor Chester N. Greenough '98, in his capacity of President of the Harvard Memorial Society, made a formal presentation of the portrait, by Charles Hopkinson '91, of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46, President Lowell received it on behalf of the University. Professor George Herbert Palmer '64, who succeeded Professor Norton as president of the Harvard Memorial Society, spoke, paying a great tribute to his former colleague.

"He was one of the greatest spiritual forces whose influence has ever been felt in this institution," Professor Palmer said in part. "A firm believer in the old Greek saying, 'Man is the measure of all things', he concentrated his attention on the study of human beings, only considering the physical world as a means, not an end in his studies. Seldom indeed could you go to Mr. Norton with a question, without finding that he had an answer to it, for he was a man whose work was studying---elaborate, sever, day by day drill.

"Long ago Mr. Norton realized something that this nation as a whole is just beginning to appreciate--that political isolation for America is impossible. Coming from old New England stock, he was a patriot from his birth. At the time of the Civil War he did everything in his power to help along the Union cause, exerting a great influence through his position as an editor of the North American Review and contributor to the Atlantic Monthly.

"Professor Norton was a man whose memory the University is proud to honor--a great scholar, patriot, teacher."