and the beauty of education. He
had had hard experience in relation to it. He had hungered for it when
he could not get it. He had obtained it in limited departments, by
hard work, at great odds and under great embarrassments, when other
claims must be postponed in its behalf. And as he looked over our
college studies he found many branches he had never pursued and could
not approach."

"The fund is not given for scholarships, professorships, libraries, or
buildings. It is given for the support of the institution, to make
instruction independent, learned and cheap; given to invite the youth
to come here, and to give them the best opportunities of cultivation
at lessened expense, to lay foundations of learning and mental
enlargement for any department in life. It will maintain ten learned
professors or twenty tutors, or give 20,000 volumes of books annually,
as the honorable Trustees shall think the demands of the college
require.

"It may enlarge, repair, or ornament these grounds; it may be turned
into laboratories, museums of natural history, or art; it may raise
the curriculum to higher studies and extended courses. It is not
restrained by his personal judgment and direction in the future, but
left to the better judgment of living mind."

Should Dartmouth ever lose her maiden name, she would not hesitate in
regard to the new one.

William Reed was born at Marblehead, Mass. Compelled to abandon the
hope of a public education, he afterwards engaged in mercantile
pursuits, which he followed with great energy and activity and with a
good degree of success.

Having by his untiring energy and perseverance, and by his strict
habits of economy come into possession of a considerable amount of
property, he devoted the latter part of his life to philanthropic and
benevolent purposes.

As a citizen he was distinguished for activity, public spirit and true
patriotism. The many marks of attention and respect which he received
from his fellow-citizens evinced the high estimation in which he was
held by the community.

In 1811 he was elected to a seat in the Congress of the United States,
a station which he filled for four years with honor to himself, with
satisfaction to his constituents, and with advantage to his country.

While the cause of Foreign Missions received the largest share of his
Christian sympathies and the largest amount of his charitable
donations, yet he was deeply interested in all the benevolent
opera