Henry Baird Favill, AB, MD, LL.D., 1860-1916, a ... - University Library

TRIBUTES AND RESOLUTIONS
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drawn upon, seemed never to lose its flow. As a physician and
as a friend he was just as thoughtful and tender of the small
miseries of life, which have so much to do with our comfort and
efficiency, as he was of the larger affairs of the city, which mean
so much in making it a habitable place and one of which we could
be proud. To encourage any one else who was working in this
direction he was always there with his splendid talents, his wonderful
vision, and his fine presence. There was no evasion, nor
excuse, nor rest. It is because he gave his all that we have had
to part with him now, when it seemed as though he still had many
years of continuing his rarely useful life.
"To few is such capacity for public service given; and we
can only hope that for many years to come his stor\' will be widely
known and lead others to follow in his footsteps. But not to
many others of our fellow citizens could the words so fittingly
apply: 'Well done, thou good and faithful ser\'-ant.' "
President Pond: "Dr. Favill touched the city on
even another side than that of medicine. He had the true
Greek spirit of loyalty to his city, thorough-going devotion,
the feeling that every man, no matter what his profession
or special task might be, had in addition thereto a civic
duty. It is with this aspect of Dr. Favill's Hfe that Dr.
Graham Taylor will deal."
"The unity of life
GRAH.\M T.WLOR
has rarely found finer or more varied
expression than in the personality of Dr. Henry Baird
Favill. At the last meeting of the Physicians' Club, he
struck what might have been the keynote of his life, to
which at least his varied activities seemed to be attuned.
He said:
"'Most of the things that have become matters of common
knowledge, more or less accurate, finally are elucidated and
classified and systematized by science. Science rarely is the
pioneer in knowledge. Science is the final expounder and clarifier
of knowledge.'