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Excerpt from Life and Remains of the Rev. R. H. Quick
I am very glad that the dedication has pleased you. You richly deserve any pleasure it may give you, for two good reasons. You are the only man I have' met with who has not been a mere partisan in education, who has not looked at it through professional spectacles of more or less self-interest, and been a modernist, because that was his line, or a classicist, because that was his line but has quietly looked and thought about what is best.
The second is the proposal for a Quick Memorial Fund, to which many leaders of the profession, both in England and America, have already subscribed. On her husband's death Mrs Quick presented to the Teachers' Guild some thousand volumes on educational subjects, and also placed on loan in its library his valuable collection of old books and tracts on pedagogy. With the interest of the fund thus raised it is proposed to make yearly additions to this nucleus and so establish a Quick Memorial Library as a recognition of the splendid services which he so persistently and so modestly rendered to education.
It only remains for me to thank first and foremost Mrs Quick for the trust she has reposed in me, her valuable help in revising the proofs, and her forbearance with my dilatori ness; the Syndics of the University Press for reading the Memorials in ms. And suggesting not a few judicious omis sions and last, but not least, my wife for aiding me in the selection and for making the full Index.
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