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MOS CAULK CLARK, of the ( l a s s of '<>4, was horn September 17, IS71, at IVeatoniea, 111., and died at his home in Urbana on J a n u a r y 29, 1<SM, of typhoid fever. He removed with his parents to Urbana, ami entered the Urbana High School, but did not graduate, entering the University with the (lass l of * M. He graduated and took one year of post-graduate work in his chosen subject—architecture. From thence he went to Chicago and entered the employ of the Chicago architect, Henry Ives Cobb, in whose service he was at the time of his death. Of his remarkable athletic achievements we need say little, for his fame was by no means confined to his Alma Mater, but his name was known and his achievements remembered bv every well-informed amateur athletic enthusiast in the

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West. Hie athletic victories were the result of patient, painstaking and conscientious training. He took up athletics, as all other matters, seriously, and allotted a portion of each day to his gymnasium work, and nothing was ever allowed to interfere. As a result of five years' conscientious training up to the time when he abandoned the athletic field for his professional career, there was no amateur college athlete in the United States who could hope to compete with him successfully in the high j u m p , he having a record of over six feet in this event. During his last year at the University he was captain of the track team, and of his patient and painstaking efforts in its behalf, not only the members of the team, but all who were in training, will bear witness. Careful and considerate at all times, ready always to lead the cross-country run, or give hints and suggestions to the new man unused to training, he will not soon be forgotten by those with whom he he came in contact. But it was not Amos Clark the athlete who was so endeared to the whole 6tudent body, but Amos Clark the man. His athletic achievements might draw forth casual admiration, but his sterling individual worth compelled something more lasting and enduring. He was most modest, never discussing his own deeds nor mentioning his achievements. Somewhat slow in choosing bis friends, but having once chosen, true and unswerving in his loyalty to them. Athletic laurels so distinguished as were his, would, under most circumstances, create some jealousies, but his innate modesty and unassuming honesty completely disarmed any incipient jealousy, and it could truly be said of him that he had not an enemy nor one who harbored for him an unkind thought among the % whole student body. i He was a loyal and prominent member of Beta Upsilon Chapter of Delta Tan Delta fraternity, and his fraternity brothers mourn him as only those who have experienced the closeness of the tie that can bind together those whose hearts are akin can appreciate. His chosen pall-bearers were fraternity brothers, who thus paid their last act of esteem and love to him who so lately had been among them, but was called away. 107