te communications of some of its members.

"'But not choosing to place myself in any unkind relations to a body
having the responsible guardianship of the college, a body from which
I have received so many tokens of confidence and regard, and believing
it to be inconsistent with Christian charity and propriety to carry on
my administration, while holding and expressing opinions injurious, as
they imagine, to the interests of the college, and offensive to that
party in the country which they [the majority] professedly represent,
I hereby resign my office as president.

"'I also resign my office as Trustee. In taking leave of the college
with which I have been connected, as Trustee or President, more than
forty years, very happily to myself, and, as the Trustees have often
given me to understand, not without benefit to the college, I beg
leave to assure them that I shall ever entertain a grateful sense of
the favorable consideration shown to me by themselves and their
predecessors in office; and that I shall never cease to desire the
peace and prosperity of the college, and that it may be kept true to
the principles of its foundation.

I am very respectfully,
"'Your ob't serv't,
"'N. Lord.'"

"'Adjourned Meeting, September 21, 1863. Resolved, 'that in accepting
the resignation of President Lord, we place on record a grateful sense
of his services during the long period of his administration; and his
kind and courteous treatment of the Board in all their intercourse.'"

Dr. Lord continued to reside at Hanover, cordially co-operating with
his successor in office, till his death, September 9, 1870. His wife,
Mrs. Elisabeth King (Leland) Lord, died a few months previous to her
husband.

CHAPTER XVIII.

ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT SMITH.

Rev. Asa D. Smith, D.D., of New York city, of the class of 1830, was
elected the seventh president of the college. His thorough
understanding of the field upon which he was to enter is indicated by
the following extracts from his inaugural address:

"There are four chief organic forces, by which, under the providence
of God, humanity has its normal development. These, generalizing
broadly, are the family, the school, the State, and the Church.
Wherever you find, even in its lowest measure, a true civilization,
these exist; and as it rises they rise, sustaining to it the relation
both of cause and effect. Concerning, as they do, one and the same
complex nature,