d spiritual personality he has
again and again come to me since his departure, and been a present
helper toward whatever of good I have attained in life.

"A single anecdote will serve to illustrate the _love_ with which his
pupils cherish his memory. I cannot but think that every survivor of
my class must have some recollection of the fact, and share all my
feelings in regard to it. He had been occasionally late at recitation,
and the class, to give him a lesson of promptness, one morning having
assembled as usual after service in chapel, and waited some four
minutes past the hour, carried the vote to go to our rooms; and so,
the professor just turning the corner, and hastening up the slope, and
his approach being announced by some on the lookout, we dashed out,
through the rear doors, or up the stairways, and not a solitary member
of the class remained in the room. The next morning he was already
there when we reached the place, made no remark on the occurrence of
the previous day, and none of us could discern in him the faintest
trace of displeasure. When, two years after we graduated, I heard of
his death, I remembered a slight, hacking cough which he had, and that
slightly bent, spare, though large and tall frame, and always placid
face, and realized for the first time that what we imputed to him as a
fault was the hindrance of disease, and possibly of sleepless nights;
and I would have given a world for an opportunity to ask his
forgiveness."[44]

[44] The writer did not know until a few years ago that he was
related, though somewhat distantly, to the wife of Professor
Chamberlain. He was personally acquainted with her from his
Sophomore year. He then boarded and roomed at Mrs. President
Brown's (Mrs. C.'s aunt). Her paternal great-grandfather,
Rev. Nicholas Gilman, of Durham, N. H., and the writer's
paternal great-grandfather (as well as maternal
great-great-grandfather), Dr. Josiah Gilman, of Exeter,
N. H., were brothers. He has felt, ever since he knew this
fact, like having a clearer right of inheritance in Professor
Chamberlain.

Another pupil says of Professor Chamberlain:

"He was well-proportioned, tall, active, and energetic. His expression
was dignified and commanding. In his word there was power. Integrity
marked all his life. His word was as good as his bond. His principles
were firm