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Thus developed, and thus prepared by academic life for the office, he 

 succeeded to the presidency of the University in 1860. He entered on 

 his new duties with the most conscientious determination to perform 

 its functions with a sole regard to the best interests of learning and 

 the true glory of religion. His aim was to bring about some whole- 

 some reforms, and to foster a manly public sentiment among the stu- 

 dents in favor of mental culture ; to withdraw the young men from 

 the pursuit of pleasure ; to bring them more into sympathy with their 

 teachers ; to make the college less a resort of those who wish to amuse 

 themselves, and more a place for vigorous training. In this endeavor 

 he had achieved some measure of success ; and, sustained by public 

 opinion, had his life been spared, he would doubtless have seen his 

 wishes fully realized. 



Disease had already insidiously approached him before he entered 

 on this new office, the duties of which, so unremitting and engrossing, 

 with such painful outlay of sympathy, evidently aggravated an organic 

 derangement of the heart. He was advised to drop his cares and give 

 himself rest during the vacation of the College, and he went to visit 

 his brother near Philadelphia. There, early in February last, he was 

 seized with more aggravated symptoms, and lingered till the 26th of 

 that month, when, surrounded by his brothers, sisters, and wife, exhib- 

 iting all the amenities of his nature, he closed his eyes on this world, to 

 explore the glories of the next, — leaving a void here, and wherever 

 his talents and character could be appreciated, never to be filled. His 

 age was 54 years 3 months and 20 days. 



Greece speaks by her living representative from the ranks of the 

 Academy in the following epitaphion, in the language that our brother 

 loved so well*: — 



'Ei/^dSe fj yrj KaraKoKinTTei 



KopvTjXiov KovFeiov '^eXrava 



Tov iv KavTa^piyia Ap^ap8iov '2va'TrjfiaTos 



Ylp6e8pov. 



'E/3ia) eTT] N A, [irjvas T, fifiepas K. 



MerrjWa^e fir]v6s (fit^povapiov K ?, trovs \CISB. 



O'lxeai els 'Ai'Soo, cpiXcov noXv (^tXroTe ^eXrco!/, 

 2oiy 8' irdpois XeiVftS aXyea Koi (TTOva)(ds. 



'H [lev KkalovfTLv aocplrjs dyadoi BepcmovTes, 

 'EXXcs S', ijj/ €(f)i\ei.s, afjv dpertjp nodift. 



