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MEMOIR OF THE LATE PRESIDENT, 
BY THE REY. J. H. SINGER, .D.D., 
SECRETARY OF THE ACADEMY, 
Tut lives of men of science are proverbially devoid of incident ; 
abstracted from the bustle and business of the great world with- 
out, and deriving their happiness as well as their occupation from 
the little world within, we but seldom find them influenced by the 
vicissitudes that shed the interest of adventure over the course of 
the legislator, the diplomatist, or the warrior. Even the steps 
that have led the scholar to eminence, the light that first dawned 
upon the path of invention, and the process by which conjecture 
has been gradually matured to certainty,—even these are too fre- 
quently unknown; and though they present the most interesting 
problems in intellectual science, are sometimes concealed by the 
modesty of him who is their subject, and sometimes forgotten 
or dimmed to recollection by the splendour of advancing disco- 
very. The life of our late President, though so important in its 
relation to the progress of education and science in this country, 
furnishes no exception to the general statement we have made ; and 
although his mind must have nurtured for years the germs of im- 
provement by which his memory has been made illustrious, it was 
in the silence and secrecy of his own solitary reflections. 
BartHoLomeEw Lroyp was born in the year 1772, and having 
been at an early period of life deprived both of his father and of his 
uncle, to whose care he had been committed after his father’s death, 
he entered soon upon those struggles with the world in which, by 
energy and perseverance, he was to obtain so signal a victory. At 
the age of fifteen he entered the University, and by his talents and as- 
siduity soon made himself conspicuous, obtaining successively aScho- 
larship and Fellowship in 1790, and 1796, on high and distinguished 
answering. On the numerous but important duties that devolved 
on him as tutor, or on the manner in which he fulfilled them, it is 
unnecessary to dilate, The affectionate recollections of his nume- 
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