ly ruined. Mr.
Young pitied me, took hold of me, and saved me.' That excellent man
could not now speak of his benefactor without tears of gratitude.

"How he stood at college, that is, what rank he held, whether first,
second, or a lower figure in his class, I never inquired, and, if I
ever heard, I have forgotten. Probably he was not equally indifferent,
for if there be a more excellent way of judgment, it was not quite
evident to his calculating mind. I have often admired how his
professional bias led him in his measurement of men, almost as by
instinct, to arithmetic, as if figures must, of course, be true, and
as if insensible moral and physical causes did not often greatly
modify or neutralize numerical computation. But it was a generous
prejudice, and I have also admired how, in his practical judgment, he
would unconsciously neutralize or modify his professional idea. He
wanted nothing but realities. He went for scholarship and not the show
of it. He accepted no metal that would not ring. He was accordingly
judged by others in reference to his sterling qualities. There might
have been men about him who made a greater figure than himself. It is
very likely. For, as I remember, strangers sometimes undervalued him.
Soon after he left college, I was sent to offer him the place of
tutor. I had not previously known him, and my first impressions were
not agreeable. I hesitated to do my errand. After all it was rather
performed than done, more after a Roman than a Saxon fashion. But it
turned out better for his character and the public good, than for my
own discernment. So of another commission not only from the Trustees,
but the venerable Professor Adams, to assure him that he would, after
a while, be wanted to take the chair of that noble old man, one of the
princes of the earth. They who knew him best had marked him, even when
he took his parchment, for that high position. How well he filled it,
and every other office he sustained, everybody who knows the college
knows.

"Professor Young was a consummate teacher. During his college course
he taught school every successive winter, as he had done for years
preceding, and earned nearly enough to pay the expenses of his course,
for he had high wages, and never wasted them on his clothes or
pleasures. That discipline settled in his mind the elements of
knowledge. The principles of all true knowledge were already laid;
first, when he was born; and, secondly, when he was bo