es, and a key to the
terminology of science and art; it familiarizes intimately with many
of the most remarkable monuments of genius and culture; and it imbues
with the history, life, and thought which have prompted, shaped, and
permeated all that is notable in the intellectual achievements of two
thousand years, and binds together the whole republic of letters. To
such a study as this we must do honor. We endeavor to add so much of
the esthetic and ethical element throughout as shall give grace and
worth. And we crown the whole with some teaching concerning the track
of that amazing power that has overmastered all other powers, and
stamped its impress on all modern history. The college was given to
Christ in its infancy, and the message that comes down through a
century to our ears, sounds not so much like the voice of a president
as of an high-priest and prophet--the 'burden of Eleazar:' 'It is my
purpose, by the grace of God, to leave nothing undone within my power
which is suitable to be done, that this school of the prophets may be,
and long continue to be, a pure fountain. And I do, with my whole
heart, will this my purpose to my successors in the presidency of the
seminary, to the latest posterity; and it is my last will, never to be
revoked, and to God I commit it, and my only hope and confidence for
the execution of it is in Him alone who has already done great things
for it, and does still own it as his cause.' God has never yet revoked
the 'last will' of Wheelock. The college is as confessedly a Christian
college as in the days of her origin; and in the impending conflict
she sails up between the batteries of the enemy with her flag nailed
to the mast and her captain lashed to the rigging.

"The college stands to-day in its ideal and the intention of its
managers, representative of the best possible training for a noble
manhood. And I may venture to say, here and now, that if there be
anything known to be yet lacking to the full attainment of that
conception, if anything needs to be added to make this, in the fullest
sense, the peer of the best college in the land, it will be the
endeavor of the Trustees and the Faculty to add that thing.

"Dartmouth College is fortunate in many particulars. Fortunate in its
situation, so picturesque and so quiet, fitted for faithful study, and
full of healthful influences, physical and moral; fortunate in being
the one ancient and honored as well as honoring college of this