e come up to lay our trophies at the
feet of our common mother, to deck her with fresh garlands, to rejoice
in her prosperity, and to promise her our perpetual homage and love.
Let no word of ours ever give her pain or sorrow. Loyal to our heart
of hearts, may we minister so far as we can, to her wants, may we be
jealous of her honor, and solicitous for her prosperity. May no
ruthless hand ever hereafter be lifted against her. May no unholy
jealousies rend the fair fabric of her seamless garment. May no narrow
or unworthy spirit mar the harmony of her wise counsels. May she stand
to the end as she ever has stood, for the Church and State, a glory
and a defense. And above all and in order to all, may the spirit of
God in full measure rest upon her; 'the spirit of wisdom and
understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of
knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.'"

[37] Job Lyman, Esq., of the class of 1804.

[38] General Sherman received the highest honorary degree of the
college in 1866.

President Smith, whose character was a rare union of energy and
gentleness, was pre-eminently a man of affairs.

The results of his untiring efforts to promote the welfare of the
college, in various directions, will be more fully developed upon
subsequent pages. Having performed valuable service for thirteen
years, he resigned his office, on account of failing health, March 1,
1877, and died on the sixteenth of August following, his wife, Mrs.
Sarah Ann (Adams) Smith, surviving him.

CHAPTER XIX.

INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT BARTLETT.

Rev. Samuel C. Bartlett, D.D., of the Chicago Theological Seminary,
was elected the eighth president of the college. We insert entire his
inaugural address, delivered at the Commencement, June, 1877:

"Certain occasions seem to prescribe their own themes of discourse,
and certain themes are endowed with perpetual life. There are problems
with which each coming generation and each last man grapples as
freshly as the first.

"How shall the ripest growth of the ages be imparted to one young
soul? Twice, at least, in a lifetime, is this great question wont to
rise solemnly before each thoughtful man--when he looks forward in
youthful hope, and when he looks back in parental solicitude. It is a
question of many forms and multiplying answers. Shall there be a long,
fundamental training, wide and general? or, shall it be closely
professional? Shall it be pred