Bates, Oric [Hrsg.]: Varia Africana (Band 2) (Cambridge, Mass., 1918)

Oric Bates

Harvard African studies. There too he desired to set the highest standard and to achieve
for the series an international reputation.
From the outbreak of the war Bates’s ardent nature urged him to do something for
the cause of the Allies and when his own country entered into the struggle his impatience
increased. For months he gave up most of his time to teaching navigation at a school
for deck-officers and he did work on African subjects for the Government. Finally he left
his wife and two infant children and entered a military training camp where after a few
short weeks he was stricken down by the disease which soon ended his life. Those who
knew him will remember him as a charming companion, a man of simple and high ideals, of
warm hearted and impulsively generous nature, a scholar in the best sense of the word who
gave himself to his work with unselfish devotion, and a friend on whose sympathy,
affection, and aid they would always rely.
Archibald Cary Coolidge.

October, 1918.