oof, and sat daily at table with him, during my Junior
year. We were colleagues afterwards, together with our classmate
Jarvis Gregg, in the Western Reserve College; and they both were
members of my family there. We had been Handelians at Dartmouth (as
also Peabody), and almost every evening we sang together, at our
fireside, from Zeuner's "Harp." How precious the memory of those
hours! How often has the uplifting power of all our intercourse been
felt! Professor Long, like Professor Young, joined the love of
Mathematics with that of Metaphysics, but the bent of his genius was
strongly in the direction of the latter, and not least in theological
and moral science. He had the enthusiastic regard both of the Faculty
and students of the Western Reserve College. He was also a very
suggestive and quickening preacher, often at my request taking my
place in the pulpit of the chapel. His great modesty, and not easily
satisfied ideal, kept him from publishing much in his lifetime; but I
have wondered that some of his writings did not find their way into
print after his death. He once told me, when urging him to this step,
that he hoped, in the course of ten years or so, to be able to prepare
something which the ear of the public might not be careless to hear.
He had the same clear-cut features that marked Professor Peabody,
though of a different pattern,--the latter with outward, the former
with inward, gaze."

"In 1853," President Lord continues, "he was transferred to the
position which he held in this college till his death, leaving the
honorable office which he had so lately assumed, at Auburn, partly out
of his great love for his Alma Mater, and partly, to minister to his
revered parents in their advanced years.

"In all these relations the qualities which I have suggested laid the
foundation of his acknowledged excellence. In all the departments
which he successively occupied he was regarded, as among the most
learned, able, and effective teachers and preachers of the country. He
was competent to every service required of him, and gave to every
position dignity and honor. He was distinctively Christian in them
all, and made them subservient to no school or party, but to the
gospel through which he had been saved.

"Wherein Professor Long was like other men, he was above the
generality, and, though he aspired not to lead, was fitted to precede
them. Wherein he was unlike them, the difference was more conspicuous.
His pe