To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

While the memory of Professor Wendell's death is still fresh, I desire to send a word of tribute.

Professor Wendell acted as my Adviser when I entered the University in 1910, and at that time I first made his acquaintance. The undergraduates of today who have never had the opportunity of meeting this really great Harvard man, have been denied a rare privilege. For in kindliness, in courtesy, and in genuine sympathy he was all that a young man could hope to find in a teacher and a friend. His door in Grays was always open, and inside that sunny room was an atmosphere of friendliness and encouragement for all who came, Freshman Senior or Graduate.

Professor Wendell was a great gentleman in every sense of the word, with a touch of old world courtliness about him. You somehow felt in his presence that here was a scholar who was welcomed at the Sorbonne, at Oxford and Cambridge, whose writings had brought him friends and honor, and honor, too, to his University, in distant lands: who knew the literati of the world and was their peer.

There are all too few such gentlemen in the world, and fewer still are those whose friendship is available to the undergraduate. But some are here today in the University, friends to all young men; and for those who know them the University is a better place.

Professor Wendell's memory lives on in the hearts of many Harvard men, who will always be grateful to the University for having given them the friendship of a great scholar and a great gentleman. PAULDING BROWN '14.   February 16, 1921.