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that marriages among classmates have been not infrequent, and again that the children of such marriages have returned in a later generation to continue the life and the traditions of an institution which, it is to be hoped, their parents have a particular reason for loving.
Several years ago an alumnus, in his Alumni Day address, in undertaking to recount what the men and women who have reflected honor on their Alma Mater are doing in world, apologized for the shortcomings of his account in words which the present writer must borrow. "No catalogue of names," he said, "no selection of a few, can give any adequate idea of the broad and general usefulness of our fellow alumni and fellow students within these walls to the world." Agreeing with this statement, and advancing it as my own caution, I shall none the less attempt to record a few names of alumni who eminently represent their Alma Mater in the world of men.
Since the University of Nebraska is a state institution I shall mention first those who have remained to serve within their state. A one-time governor, George L. Sheldon, class of 1892, a United States senator, Elmer J. Burkett, '93, three congressmen, the late David H. Mercer, '80, Omaha, E. M. Pollard, '93, Nehawka, and J. A. Maguire, '98, Lincoln, the present police commissioner of the city of Omaha, J. Dean Ringer, '03, scores of members in both houses of the state legislatures, and scores of city and county officials, are men all of whom honorably served in public life their state and their community. In our public school system, in all of its branches, are alumni. We have first of all our own chancellor, Dr. Samuel Avery, '92, the first alumnus to serve in that capacity. We rejoice that among the faculty there are still with us alumni who began more than twenty-five years ago to serve their Alma Mater; Dr. G. E. Howard, '76; Professor H. H. Wilson, '78; Professor H. W. Caldwell, '80; Professor Laurence Fossler, '81; and Dean O. V. P. Stout, '88. The staffs of our normal schools, high schools, city and rural schools, are largely made up of men and women who have attended if not graduated from the University.
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