tual ability,
true love of the beautiful in all things, and a taste trained to
discover, enjoy, and judge it, and that his acquirements were
competent and increasing. It was the 'keenness' of his mind of which
Mr. Mason always spoke to me as remarkable in any man of any
profession. He met him only in consultation as a client; but others,
students, all nearer his age, and admitted to his fuller intimacy,
must have been struck rather with the sobriety and soundness of his
thoughts, the solidity and large grasp of his understanding, and the
harmonized culture of all its parts. He wrote a pure and clear English
style, and he judged of elegant literature with a catholic and
appreciative but chastised taste. The recollections of a student of
the learning of a beloved and venerated president of a college, whom
he sees only as a boy sees a man, and his testimony concerning it,
will have little value; but I know that he was esteemed an excellent
Greek and Latin scholar, and our recitations of Horace, which the
poverty of the college and the small number of its teachers induced
him to superintend, though we were Sophomores only, were the most
agreeable and instructive exercises of the whole college classical
course.

"Of studies more professional he seemed master. Locke, Stewart, with
whose liberality and tolerance and hopeful and rational philanthropy
he sympathized warmly, Butler, Edwards, and the writers on natural law
and moral philosophy, he expounded with the ease and freedom of one
habitually trained and wholly equal to these larger meditations.

"His term of office was short and troubled; but the historian of the
college will record of his administration a two-fold honor; first,
that it was marked by a noble vindication of its chartered rights; and
second, that it was marked also by a real advancement of its learning;
by collections of ampler libraries, and by displays of a riper
scholarship."

CHAPTER XIV.

PROGRESS FROM 1820 TO 1828.--ADMINISTRATIONS OF PRESIDENT DANA AND
PRESIDENT TYLER.

It was not an easy matter, especially in the impoverished condition of
the college, to find a worthy successor of President Brown.

During the period of President Brown's illness, and at different
periods after his death, Professor Ebenezer Adams, a gentleman of
decided and energetic character, and (in years) the senior professor
in the college, was acting president.

Rev. Daniel Dana of Newburyport, Massachusetts, w