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so endowed tlnit the occupants shall bo relieved from the 

 drudgery of teaching and the necessity for this day's work 

 to pay for the next day's living. We have able men who need 

 no more than this to place them us peers in the promotion of 

 Useful knowledge with the best in the world. This plan, 

 gentlemen, is, in my estimation, worth more to the country 

 and the world than all the monumental buildings for uni- 

 versity and college purposes in all our land, and it costs but 

 a tithe of the money. President Grilman ean get as good 

 and beneficial work out of the old warehouses — the old 

 buildings and back kitchens — in which the Johns Hopkins 

 University is now housed, as he could if it were housed in 

 the Capitol at Washington. The one building and equip- 

 ment to which I have already referred cost as much as it 

 would to endow ten chairs, and its outcome is not, or not 

 long ago was not, equal to a tenth part of what came from 

 the chair Michael Faraday occupied. 



I thank you, gentlemen, for your attention. 



10. The Spirit of a Philosophical Society, 



Prof. J. P. Lesley, Philadelphia. 



"Science moves, hut slowly slowly, creeping on." — Tennyson. 



Professor Lesley, in response, said: 



The serious and the gay things of our existence are so 

 blended in our experience as individuals, that a very slight 

 apology will be demanded of me, if, on this joyous occasion, 

 I venture to BUggesi a few grave topics of reflection. 



We meet as members of a Society which boasts of vener- 

 able antiquity — after an American fashion — or rather on an 

 American scale : a boast which would certainly be ridicu- 



