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Show 78 selfless, devotion to what he judges to be truth. spared no energy or exertion in those causes. And he has Looking back over l5 years I cannot recall a single sharp word or angry phrase in all our dealings together and we have oftentimes observed the scene of argument from opposite benches. We have learned together how much there can be in common in opposite approaches to a single problem and it has been on many occasions an enriching experience. I have defended Mormonism among a community of Jesuits and pride myself on the issue though, of course, I had the great advantage that came from earlier argument "about it and about." It would be a very bold statement to say we shall miss you, Henry. You look so penetratingly into things that you know, as well as we do, that your leaving will leave a great big wide gap in the ranks of Princeton chemists, in the ranks of the Princeton faculty to which you have brought such great distinction. We have tried hard to keep you here with us but now that you have taken the final decision we shall try still harder to maintain the level of our departmental achievement at that to which you have helped us all so effectively to reach. We shall carry down through the years a happy memory of the green years, the lush years when you were with us. And we shall hope that, out there, near the Great Salt Lake, there will be always, in your work, the happiest of memories of Princeton and your successes here, to carry you through the chores that certainly will still be left to you much opportunity for the happiness that comes in learning the causes of things. Of that new work may we say in the words of Princeton's motto "DE; sub numine viget." May it prosper under God's providence. |
