and regard. Happily, in this department as well as in all others,
Dartmouth College is now in motion, and fully up with the foremost in
the current of physical study.

During his last three years, Professor Hale was President of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society. His portrait, presented, it is believed, by the
members of that society, now hangs in the college library.

While at Hanover, Professor Hale thought it his duty to resume his
purpose of preaching, and was accordingly ordained Deacon by the Rt.
Rev. Dr. Griswold, Bishop of the Eastern Diocese, September 28, 1828,
at Woodstock, Vt.; and Priest by the same bishop, in St. Paul's,
Newburyport, January 6, 1831. In taking this step he violated in no
respect the charter of the college, he undertook nothing which
conflicted with the duties of his professorship, he acted neither
obtrusively nor illiberally; but while he occasionally preached in
neighboring churches, he always, in Hanover, scrupulously observed the
appointment at the village meeting-house. On Sunday nights, however,
he held a service in his own house, for his own family, and the family
of Dr. Oliver, and such other communicants of the Episcopal Church,
and friends, as might desire to attend. Difference in sentiment on
religious subjects, between Professor Hale and the Trustees of the
college, and action on their part which can hardly be regarded as
justifiable, led to the termination of Professor Hale's connection
with the college, in 1835.

In 1835, Professor Hale published two works, "A Valedictory Letter to
the Trustees," and "Scriptural Illustrations of the Liturgy." In
August of that year he attended the General Convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church as a delegate from the Diocese of New
Hampshire. In October, 1836, the degree of D.D. was conferred upon him
by Columbia College. In December, having had a severe attack of
bronchitis, he sailed to St. Croix to spend the winter. His published
letters under the signature of "Valetudinarius" were very pleasant to
the reading public.

In the course of the next year he entered upon the laborious and high
duties of an office which occupied the remaining years of his active
life. He was elected, August 2, 1836, to the Presidency of Geneva
College, N. Y., and entered upon his duties in the following October;
delivering an inaugural address on the 21st of December. It is of
course impossible here to give the varied and interesting details of
his presidentia