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manis best in the functions of his post,, in the service of his fel-

lows. ITowever invaluable, then, the  0:oaievenants of Patterson as

President, they could ground no Just cl"im for eX0ptional recog-

nition by a pension, although it mar hare been highly proper for the

State to pension very President and every Professor on such retire-

ment from its service. So then the sixty-percent provision must

appear, not in itself improper, but unjustified by the University

practice and unwarranted by the circumstances of the cese.

      Navertheless, it was not unnatural for Patterson, in view of

his 1 ng and snlendid career, at a wage rauch lower than generally

paii, to seek some recognition in the natvre of a pension, and it

was undoubtedly soothing to his dignity and his sense,of worth to

have it paid not as a pension or allowanoe but for continued vol-

iu.tary functioning for the Univorsity in the exalted position of

President Emeritus. Still there remanins the apparently irreconcil-

able contradiction between a beneficiary, a President retired, and

a President Tnerlitus paid for regular continued service. - 25ven

though he should find nothing absolutely inexplicable in this oom-

plicated stiuation, the reader will per&ps incline to judge that

it was a hard bargain that was closed with the Board in the "Con-

ditions of Ietirement'. Once slosed, however, he will sey that it

should ,have been strictly fulfilled.

     Unworkable. And yet the issue showed what should have been

foreseen, that the fulfilment was practically impossiblet Such

is the close logical texture of events.   As in a mathematical