ge, and was majestic in it. His mode of delivery and gesture
were beyond criticism, and at times sublime. I never heard a student
speak of him in this capacity without the highest praise; and his
power ended not simply in producing admiration, but in influencing his
hearers to duty. The great object aimed at in his preaching was to
induce his hearers to be willing, unconditionally, to do and submit to
the revealed Divine will. He who succeeds in persuading his fellow-men
to faithfully and perseveringly try to do this, does the highest
Christian work, and most for the benefit of man. No one who has sat in
the presidential chair of Dartmouth, or of any other college, during
an equal length of time, has done more in this direction than Bennet
Tyler."

The librarian says:

"In 1819, Isaiah Thomas of Worcester, Massachusetts, presented the
college library 470 volumes, which were perhaps an equivalent for the
books recently lost, as Professor Haddock makes the statement that
there were probably no more books in 1820 than in 1815. In 1820 the
Trustees appropriated $400. The three libraries at this time must have
numbered not far from 8,000 volumes. In 1826, the 'Social Friends'
obtained a Charter, and one was granted to the United Fraternity'
during the following year. These Charters gave the societies the right
to hold property, and transact business, and made necessary the
consent of a majority of the existing members in order to dispose of
the libraries. The society libraries had been increasing more rapidly
than the college library, and at this time they had reached it in size
as well as exceeded it in practical value and in circulation. It is
quite noticeable that these three libraries for the twenty-five years
following were kept so nearly equal, by additions and losses, that at
no time the number of books actually upon their shelves differed by
more than a few hundred.

"The work and influence of the societies was neither small nor to be
lightly estimated, and in that work the libraries had no small share.
Professor Crosby, in speaking of the college life of the class of
1827, says: 'The college library was small, and had been so collected
that it contained few books which either the instructors or students
wished to read. The chief dependence of the latter was upon the
society libraries, in which they took much pride, and to the increase
of which they contributed with so great liberality in proportion to
their mean