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ample rewards she received, it would have been her wish, perhaps, 

 that we should be content with this well balanced account ; but re- 

 membering her quiet ways, her simple dress, and her scorn of self- 

 indulgence, we feel that we ought to indicate by some sign the use 

 she made of the earnings from her several employments. She had 

 few ills of her own, but from her childhood she had been full of 

 sympathy and tenderness for others who suffered. In her youth 

 she gave to such personal service, out of the abundance of her 

 strength, but later on she shared her wages with them, to a far greater 

 advantage ; and many now remember her best as the anxious friend 

 who anticipated their wants. 



Early in the winter of 1888, feeling that her strength was giving 

 way, she resigned her chair at Vassar College, and I'etired as Professor 

 Emerita. Other employments were relinquished. She returned to 

 Lynn, and, after a very trying illness, she died there on the 28th of 

 June of the same year. 



THEODORE DWIGHT WOOLSEY.* 



Theodore Dwight Woolset was born in the city of New York, 

 October 31, 1801. Both his parents were of English descent. His 

 father, a prominent and successful merchant, sprung from a family 

 which was early settled on Long Island. His mother, a sister of the 

 first President Dwight, was a granddaughter of Jonathan Edwards. 

 He was doubly connected with President Dwight, whose wife was a 

 sister of his father. The relatives of President Woolsey were stanch 

 Federalists of the Hamilton school. This was one of the influences 

 which gave a highly conservative tone to his political feeling. He 

 always felt a strong antipathy to Jefferson, and his ideas of govern- 

 ment. He disbelieved in the doctrine of universal suffrage. Dr. 

 Woolsey was graduated at Yale College in 1820, when he received 

 the highest honors of the class. On leaving college he spent a year 

 in the study of law in the office of Mr. Charles Chauncey of Phila- 

 delphia, — a fruitful year in its influence on his subsequent literary 

 life. Deciding to enter the ministry, he joined the Princeton Theo- 

 logical Seminary, which he left at the end of a year to become a 

 Tutor in Yale. This return to New Haven was in 1823. While 

 holding this office, he studied during another year in the Yale Theo- 

 logical School. In 1825 he was licensed to preach ; but a distrust 



* Not ready in time for tlie preceding Annual Report. 



