“ No man was more popular with the undergraduates than was he, and all who knew him regretted when he was compelled some years ago to retire from active participation in college work. No professor was more warmly cheered at the class-day gather of the graduating class about the old tree back of Hollis Hall than was Dr. Peabody. In the Harvard catalogue he is put down as "Preacher to the University and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Emeritus." ”

“ Though in the dogmatic sense a Unitarian, he lived for interests which are common to the whole Christian Church. His influence was always more persuasive than person, always gentle, always manly, always rightly directed. ”

“ Keim was born in Reading, and went to Philadelphia when twelve years old. He became a clerk in Rufus Hatch's hardware store. He went into business himself on reaching the age of twenty-one. Recently he was the head of a saddlery hardware concern, under the firm name of George De B. Keim & Co. For many years Mr. Keim was a director of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. ”