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ground, he would listen without response to those whose views were 

 different from his own, refrain from stating his objections unless the 

 situation imperatively called for statement, and give his auditor an 

 impression, and a true impression, of respectful and sympathetic interest ; 

 and yet in due time would follow the course which his own judgment 

 dictated as wise. The quality of his mind was eminently judicial. He 

 saw all sides of a difficult question so clearly that he sympathized with 

 those who saw perhaps only one side. In the Advertiser office he dealt 

 with business men, statesmen, soldiers, conservatives, radicals, vision- 

 aries ; learned something from all, dealt courteously with all, gained the 

 respect of all, and yet never failed to maintain his own sound and 

 independent judgment. 



The most active and strenuous years of Professor Dunbar's life, between 

 the ages of twenty-nine and thirty-nine, were given to the Adv-ertiser. 

 In his hands its editorship was distinctly a public service ; and, cool- 

 headed and sagacious as he was, uninfluenced by any vapid sentimental- 

 ism, he so regarded his vocation. But his strength, never very great, 

 was seriously shaken by these ten years of severe application, and in 

 1869, when the Advertiser changed hands. Professor Dunbar was glad to 

 dispose of his mterest and to retire from the paper. 



Shortly after, he was offered a professorship of political economy 

 in Harvard University. This was a career he had never looked for- 

 ward to, and he doubted his own capacity for it. Nevertheless, after 

 some hesitation, he accepted, on condition that he should have time for 

 restoring his strength and adding to his equipment. After two years 

 spent in Europe in study and travel, he entered in 1871 on the duties of 

 the professorship, to which he devoted himself for the rest of his life. 



Although thus launched on the career of a scholar and teacher, his 

 abilities were such as to cause him to be enlisted soon in the work of 

 guiding and managing the affairs of the University. On the retirement 

 of the late Professor Gurney, in 1876, he became Dean of the Faculty 

 of Harvard College, and retained that post until 1882. When the 

 present Faculty of Arts and Sciences in Harvard University was organ- 

 ized in 1890, he became its first Dean, and so acted until 1895. In 

 addition, he served frequently on committees, and was in constant 

 intercourse with the .President of the University, who relied greatly on 

 his advice. Repeatedly through his academic cai-eer, he was called upon 

 to act as judge, as mediator and pacificator, as organizer of new plans, 

 as administrator of new systems. All these duties were discharged with 

 remarkable judgment and success ; yet they were felt by him to be 



