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Widely Known Chemist and Teacher Dies After Long Illness; U. K. gx
Alumnus Achieves World Wide Fame by Outstanding he
. Work and Discoveries  
` By Marguerite McLaughlin one
,Q Dr. A. S. Loevenhart, who had just passed the and M. College in 1898 and 1899, respectively, and the
i iiftieth anniversary of his birth, died at johns his doctors degree at johns Hopkins in 1903. He us
Q Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, Saturday, April 20. remained at johns Hopkins holding the position G9
i} The news of his death came to his family and of associate professor of pharmacology and psy- Pm
g friends in Lexing- siological chemistry We
  ton, th e c i ty in for five years. Since but
Z which he was rear- that time he has wh]
  ed, and was heard _     been professor of Cat'
f with t h e deepest   pharmacology an d par
sense of loss. Trib-   S    Vp,__\ toxicology at th o exc
utes have been paid ,,=,:   —   University of Wis- ex?
him b h sicians       `ii_   consin. In 1910 he I'
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scientists and men _   Vfj i ; ___      married Miss Min- tml
of the more general _   __=‘‘`‘   __._`   nie Goldsmith, Of his
educational ranks .    U   r_._,_      s Chicago. His first A Sufi
and, realizing as . X       an d second child, sou
they do, his tremen-       both girls, died at M6,
· deus werthi h av e   _ ._      -'i`l    " . the ages or 4 and 6 Th·
. been unstinted in i f ,,,     years. His widow Jet
their praise- _   _.-—     :``   _ _i__ .2 I     A and third daughter nat
Sihee tlwse days A ~ i` ii i     K;.   _.....   . Y ·‘‘‘   ;»»; gl; .—-°-   Survive hm gud
wheh hue h hey he r- i   ’”ti     ,  Dr- L¤<=V€¤he“’S U;
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called "Dudley" and .   -   ' °   S1 _‘.i,   ·-:_   ~»“_i`   his friends and his
there eat te heeeh at-   a     .   .`—`   :·;; ‘ .~£-‘»  if _._-   .»:¤i‘   phileeephy ef life SS-
tentively to some di-       i··,._     . i»»'.     V.“‘. s,Zi_iVii;g__j·¥¥};ig?  was gg X 4; g P t i Onal, ai
rection and instruc- '     if if     `i(.ii   i`i,_i_, 1   O n e realizes t h e WIS
heh, he hee been e - i . YL ·   .—»   i i ieie     ·*‘_ ¤     suffering he SQ ’
person of interest to   S     I     ie·- ‘   iii   if _`   bravely endured at che
» his fellow towns-   A ‘   _ .`._ , if i A       hi; the death of his the
men. He was grad- .   `·_=. i i   children when this wai
uated with honor in A ‘i$I.·i   V `V · ’ . ., . 1 ‘·ie   excerpt from a let- eva
1894 a n cl entered A   `·   ‘`:‘·   ter of condolence to am
. State Cellege. as it i . .   a beloved friend is uy
» Was tl'1€1'1 called, to » read and ygqggd; S
A i take lip the Study of Arthur S. Loevenhart iq always feel fhat in
chemistry under Dr. the value of life can am
joseph Hoeing Kastle, who to the day of his only be arrived at by taking the sum total of the me
death was Arthur Loevenhart’s guiding genius. joy that the life gave to others and subtracting lah
They were like brothers. The kindly, gentle from that the sorrow that the life gave them. If mei
nature of the older man was reflected in the life we grieve too deeply over the departure of a dear SH
of the younger whose very disposition responded one, it means that we are detracting somewhat the
to the best. His sterling manhood was uncom- from the usefulness of that life. If a man or Syl
' promising in its appreciation of quality. He re- woman has lived a splendid life, giving much eee
ceived his B. S. and M. S. degrees from the A. happiness to others, then when he passes on usa
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