20 Kcmsas Academy of Science. 



the acquisition of philosophy, history and mathematics, proved 

 how conscientiously and carefully he applied himself to everything 

 he uodertook. Outdoor life was to him a constant source of en- 

 joyment. He fairly reveled in the pure air about him. He was a 

 lover of physical exercise, and entered into the sports and games 

 of the athletic field of those days with jaws set and muscles hard 

 and tense, and whether defeat or victory came to him, he accepted 

 either as a gentleman. There was nothing small, nothing mean, 

 about him. 



When he graduated he stood at the head of his class and was 

 appointed valedictorian by the faculty. To win such an honor, 

 when among his classmates were General Armstrong, Franklin 

 Carter (afterwards president of Williams College), Prof. E. H. 

 Griffin (of Johns Hopkins University), Prof. George Raymond 

 (of Princeton University), and other notable men, was a great 

 achievement for a boy of twenty-two. His standing as a scholar 

 was at that time the highest ever reached by a student of Williams. 

 All these accomplishments, successes and victories were not ob- 

 tained by sudden fits of inspiration, but by honest, earnest work, 

 day after day. 



When F. H. Snow entered college he was a boy ; when he gradu- 

 ated, four years later, he was still a boy; and during the remaining 

 forty-six years of his life he continued to be a boy — the same happy, 

 joyous and free-hearted fellow, year after year. 



In 1864 the young man entered Andover Theological Seminary 

 to study for the ministry. He took this step very much against 

 the wishes of his father, who was anxious that his son should be a 

 partner with him in business. To the seminary, however, he went, 

 and during his course there he was often invited to preach in the 

 ■churches of the neighboring towns. His preaching met with great 

 acceptance, and at last a call came to him to be pastor of the Con- 

 gregational church at Concord. After the trial sermon, his father, 

 who was in the audience, the most interested man there, was so 

 -overcome by his feelings that he kissed his son. From that mo- 

 ment all opposition on the part of his father disappeard. Young 

 Snow, studying theology at Andover, was intensely aroused by the 

 War of the Rebellion, and, fired with a patriotic desire to serve his 

 country, became a worker in the United States Christian Commis- 

 sion, and was assigned to duty at the front upon the battle-fields 

 between Washington and Richmond. Here, as usual, he was ever 

 ready to do his duty. In the hospital, on the field of battle, and 

 everywhere. Snow was to be seen, ministering to the sick, wounded 



