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  :DAVID WEISS, '19, an energetic member of the
General Alumni Association, died on November
19, after an illness of nearly a week of black
smallpox.
  Mr. Weiss was about thirty years of age. As a
boy he immigrated to New York, learned the
printing trade, later joining the staff of the New
York Call, the official organ of the Socialist party,'
to which group he ardently adhered. In 1915
he entered the Course in Journalism at Wiscon-
sin and followed his degree with work towards
his master's degree, both here and at the Univer-'
sity of California. Bent on a trip around the
world he accepted a position at McKinley High
School, Honolulu. He arrived in Tokyo, Japan,
shortly before the earthquake, where his ability
as 'newspaperman was put to the test in the
publication of the "Earthquake Extras" under
the greatest difficulties. From Japan he sailed
for Shanghai, China, and had just organized a
School of printing for the Commercial Press,
when he. was taken ill.,
  Mr. Weiss leaves one brother, who resides in
New York City.
  Several Wisconsin friends attended his burial
at Bubbling Well cemetery, Shanghai.
  CLARENCE P. PETERSON, '23, died on Decem-
ber 18 from injuries received in an auto accident
                       the  eyening  before.
WI111 "LWO) frielln s1
.had motored to Eau
Claire, when on their
return the car skidded
on loose gravel and
turned  over, fatally
injuring Mr. Peterson.
  Clarence   Peterson
was- born at Mont-
fort, August 14, 1,897.
He received his early
education there and
at River Falls, leaving
normal school there to'
enter the army. On
his return from Service
he continued his nor-
mal school studies,
graduatipg  in  1919.
                   "  ,for two years at Dur-
and before coling to .he University and re-
turned upon graduation to his work there.
  This young member of our organization leaves
to mourn his loss two sisters and three brothers,
one of them being Alvin, '11, of Montfort.
Burial was at Blue IRiver.
  THEA LARSEN, ex'27, passed away at the Uni-
versity Infirmary on January 2, following an
illness of only a week. Miss Larsen was a fresh-
man in the course in Applied Arts, having en-
tered the University from the Madison Central
High School.
LUMNI MAGAZINE
  She leaves her parents to mourn her loss, dhd
her many friends-in the city of Madison will long
cherish the memory of her friendly and sincere
nature.
  Burial was on January 5 at Forest Hill, Madi-
son.-R. N. '24.
  Faculty: MOSES STEPHEN SLAUGHTER, chair-
man of the department of Classics, died in Rome
where he was on leave of absence from the Uni-
versity. The appreciation of Professor Slaugh-
ter which appears on the first page of this issue
may be supplemented with the following facts
of his life as they appeared in the resolution
prepared by his associate, Prof. Grant Shower-
man, '96, and adopted by the faculty with a
rising vote:
* "Moses Stephen Slaughter, born at Brooklyn,
Ind, October 3, 1860, graduate of De Pauw'
university, 1883, doctor of philosophy of Johns
Hopkins university, 1891, student at Berlin and
Mulaich, 1893-4, professor at Bryn Mawr college,
1887-8, Collegiate institute, Hackettstown, N
J., 1888-9, and Iowa College, 1889-96, ranking
professor of Latin in the University of Wisconsin
since 1896, annual professor in the Amercan
School of Classical Studies in Rome, 1909-10,
major in-the Italian Commission of the American
Red Cross Service in the district of Venice, 1918-
19, died in Rome, where he was on leave of ab-
sence accompanied by Mrs., Slaughter, at mid-
night on December 29; 1923.
  "The death of Professor Slaughter removes
from the department of classics a conscientious
and able leader, from classical studies and letters
at large a teacher'in whomn scholarship and hu-
manity met with rare effect, from the faculty
one of its oldest and wisest counsellors, from the
church a faithful member, from the community
an esteemed citizen and beloved neighbor.
  "The faculty of the University of Wisconsin,
in regular meeting assembled on January 7,
1924, expresses hereby the Sense of its collective
and personal loss, and orders the 'record of its
regret placed in the minutes,"
The following tribute was contributed by
President Birge-
  "The sudden and unexpected death of Pro-
fessor Slaughter brings with it a great loss to
the university. He was a humanist in the fullest
and best sense of the word. His character and
temjperament as a teacher found their basis
in the human and humane qualities of the class-
ics, and he had a rare ability of making these
qualities live in the hearts of his students.
  "Horace and Lucretius were the authors
whom he taught with most pleasure-the poet
who has been the companion of men of culture
in all times and countries, and the poet whose
science and philosophy have the closest appeal
to the thought of the present. No wonder that
students found him an inspiring guide into Latin
letters as a source of illumination for their own
problems of thought and life."
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