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thought I made the basis of my Inaugural Address, when inducted 

 into the Presidency. I had endeavored to act on this principle 

 in all my teaching ; but now I put it into the form of a professor- 

 ship, and a richer or nobler field I do not know in the whole circle 

 of science. I called it a Professorship of Natural Theology and 

 Geology, adding this latter science because I have been in the 

 habit of going more into detail concerning it, and because no 

 science equals this in its religious applications. 



'' It was a deep conviction of the importance of such a professor- 

 ship that led me to seek its endowment. The manner in which 

 it was secured has already been referred to. Mr. Williston had 

 just agreed to endow a professorship, which was finally called the 

 Graves Professorship, in honor of Mrs. Williston' s maiden name, 

 and he offered to give half enough to endow another, if some gen- 

 tleman could be found to take the other half, and proffer his name 

 to the whole. I immediately communicated with Samuel A, 

 Hitchcock, of Brimfield, and I merely stated the case and told 

 him that as he was childless, I wanted that he should make the Pro- 

 fessorship of Natural Theology and Geology his heir, and that so 

 long as I was connected with the College, I would fill the chair, 

 and thus make it a Hitchcock affair all round. The conceit struck 

 him favorably, and by return mail the proposal was accepted. Sub- 

 sequently, through fear that some of his securities might fall below 

 par, he added two thousand dollars more, making the whole endow- 

 ment twenty-two thousand dollars, which is the largest among the 

 professorships, and the income is almost sufficient to sustain two 

 professors." 



The perplexities in the management of a New England Col- 

 lege are amusingly sketched as follows : 



" There are three bodies of men officially connected with College, 

 at whose meetings the President is expected to preside, and for 

 which his duty is to prepare business. The first is the Trustees, 

 whose meetings, in ordinary times, are only once a year. The 

 second is the Prudential Committee, who look after pecuniary 

 affairs, and almost anything, in fact, needed to be done in the 

 absence of the Trustees. These hold their meetings regularly as 

 often as once a month, and frequently much oftener. The third 

 is the Faculty, who hold a weekly meeting for attending to the 

 discipline and government of the College, considering petitions, 

 and seeing to it that everything is in place and order. Here 

 everything that makes friction or is out of gear, among officers or 



