elieve, gave him spiritual children from among our number,
as the reward of his fidelity; children who never ceased to love him
while he lived, and who will cherish his memory with gratitude to
their dying hours."

Professor Folsom says:

"Dartmouth College was fortunate in getting Mr. Tyler to stand in the
line of its excellent presidents. Each of them was different from the
rest in special qualifications, in work performed, in kind and force
of influence exerted; but each did what made his administration an
important period in the history of the college, and extended its fame
and usefulness. Dr. Tyler was inferior to none of them in the depth
and extent to which he affected the character of the students for
good, and through them, wherever the Divine Providence called them to
live and labor, promoted the welfare of the country; the enlightenment
and moral activity, and power, and happiness of the people.

"His splendid physique, in which he surpassed everybody in the region;
his noble stature and well-proportioned form; his head finely poised,
and around it a halo of parental benignity, its perpetual and unfading
crown; these struck every one at first sight, and prepossessed all in
his favor. I know of none with whom to compare him in these respects
except Ezekiel Webster. In his whole spirit and mien, in look and word
and action, he was a father, and his whole administration was parental
in the best sense of the word. This benignity, as we learn from his
'Memoir,' marked his subsequent career as president of the East
Windsor Theological School. His biographer, taking notice of the fact
that 'the perversities of human nature make their appearance in such
institutions as well as elsewhere,' observes that 'the strong
affections of the father in him occasionally swayed the firmness of
the tutor and governor, and rendered him indulgent and yielding in
cases where there was call for the peremptory and authoritative.' In
the first two years of our college life, from the fall of 1824 to the
spring of 1826, two or three instances of wrongdoing passed unnoticed
which perhaps deserved such a mode of treatment. There were, moreover,
it is to be confessed, irregularities and bad practices among students
in all the classes at that period, but they were exceptional, so far
as my knowledge of them extended, and would have required a system of
espionage to detect them, or informers from the guilty ones
themselves. Dartmouth howeve