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'hath its seat in the bosom of God,'--be all bathed in the light of
Calvary. That light is its life. 'Let us with caution indulge the
supposition,' said the Father of our country, 'that morality can be
maintained without religion.' Let the Bible be included among our
text-books as the sun is included in the solar system; and let all the
rest revolve in planetary subjection about it. Let it be studied, not
in a professional, much less in a partisan way; but with the
conviction that it is indispensable to the broadest culture; that
without theology we have but a straitened anthropology; that we see
not nature aright, but as we look up through it to Nature's God. Be
ours, in its largest significance, the sentiment so devoutly uttered
by the old Hebrew bard: 'In Thy light shall we see light.' And let the
discipline of college, so intimately connected with its prosperity, be
fashioned on the model of the Gospel. Let it copy, in its way and
measure, the wondrous harmonies of the redemptive scheme, in which
'mercy and truth are met together, righteousness and peace have kissed
each other.' So shall it bless our halls with some faint reflection of
the Divine fatherhood, and give to our society some happy resemblance
to a Christian family."
A prominent feature of President Smith's administration was a greater
utilization of the libraries, and the opening of a reading-room. The
librarian says:
"The late Professor Alphaeus Crosby contributed considerably to the
increase of the classical books, and Hon. Nathan Crosby has recently
furnished the means for commencing a collection of the works of
Dartmouth alumni. It is intended to gather all books and pamphlets
which have been written by graduates. The collection will also include
matter relating to them and to the work of the college.
"In reviewing the history of the library their number is so great that
it is impossible to mention even a small part of the benefactors;
their best record is in the well filled shelves and the large amount
of reading done in connection with the studies of the college course.
"One of the departments of the library consists of the books given by
the late General Sylvanus Thayer, founder of the school of
engineering, numbering 2,000 volumes.
"Early in its history the members of the Chandler Scientific
Department founded the 'Philotechnic Society,' the library of which,
together with some books belonging to the department, contains 1,700
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