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room for growth, growing experience of traits of mind, heart, and 

 character which have won my profound respect and sincere affection. 



In the sixty years for which I have known him, there has been 

 nothing in deed or word to break the record of a life pure, true, faith- 

 ful, and kind. Rigidly conscientious in the least things as in the 

 greatest, he has shown the worth and power of the religion whose 

 worship and ordinances he has held in constant and sacred observance. 



So young seemed he for his years, we looked not that he should be 

 taken from us thus early. With bodily strength but slightly impaired, 

 he retained his clearness, vigor, and activity of mind to the last. We 

 are thankful that he passed away while we can feel his loss and 

 mourn his departure, — that he was spared the prolonged decline and 

 infirmity which we who are growing old most of all dread and dep- 

 recate. His life was beautifully rounded ; its work done, and well 

 done; and he was happy in the timeliness of his death no less than in 

 the gratitude and honor which grew with his years, crowned his old 

 age, and insure for him a precious and blessed memory. 



With the approval of the Council, I offer for the Academy the 

 following resolutions: — 



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Resolved, That, in the death of our late President, the Academy has 

 lost a member whose reputation and whose many years of loyal service 

 have contributed lai-gely to its honor and prosperity, and a presiding 

 officer whose assiduity, courtesy, and kindness have won for him from all 

 his associates the most cordial and grateful regard. 



Resolved, That we hold in precious remembrance his high scientific 

 attainments, his eminent ability and success as a teacher, his place among 

 the foremost in the reverence and love of the graduates of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, his pure and elevated character, and the worth of his example and 

 influence as a Christian gentleman and scholar to the successive classes of 

 students who, for more than half a century, passed under his instruction 

 and discipline. 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to his family, with 

 the expression of our sincere sympathy with them in their bereavement. 



The resolutions offered by the Vice-President were sec- 

 onded by President Eliot of Harvard University: — 



Professor Lovering's life seems to me to be better characterized by 

 the word fidelity than by any other. He was just as faithful in the 

 least things as in the greatest. Whatever work he undertook, he did 

 thoroughly and steadily, although it might be uninteresting, mechan- 

 ical, or really unsuitable for one of his station and powers. He heard 



