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triumphs. Nor did he only urge them forward; he held upa torch to 
direct their steps, and his elementary works upon Geometrical Ana- 
lysis and Mechanics, adopted as the Text-books in the University, 
prove how completely he identified himself with the progress of the 
student, while at the same time they illustrate the power of that 
mind which could grapple with and overcome the most difficult of 
all intellectual labours, the rendering familiar and facile the elements 
of science. And our President was successful. The mind of our 
youth required but to be stimulated and directed. We are now as it 
were centuries in advance of what we, a few years ago, viewed as the 
limit of attainment, and many, whom to praise would be superfluous, 
and whom I would name, but that they are present, form the best 
comment on our President’s zeal and foresight. 
As Provost, the same great objects were ever present to his mind. 
Education, over which he presided, called for his undivided atten- 
tion, and he bestowed it ; and by the changes which he effected in 
its literary, scientific, and ethical departments, he has acquired for 
himself among the friends of the mind of Ireland imperishable glory. 
This is not the place to speak in detail of the many improvements he 
suggested or adopted; of the different courses of study which he 
supplied to the differing inclinations or tendencies of mind; of the 
elevation of mental and moral science to the station, which, in such 
a country as ours, it should maintain; of the separation of the im- 
portant duties of the Professor from the laborious and important, 
but subordinate, occupation of the Tutor ; still less of the zeal with 
which he watched over the theological course of the University, 
and laboured to raise it to meet the exigencies of the times, and 
the wants of the people. If the prosperity of a country be in- 
separably connected with the education of the higher and middle 
classes of the population, and if the progress of science and litera- 
ture be the never-failing index of a civilized and moralized popu- 
lation, then must the individual who extends or improves education 
be ranked among the truest lovers of their country, and the name 
of Lloyd will be handed down among the benefactors of Ireland. 
Nor was our late President exclusive in his attachment to Science 
or to Instruction; while the medical school connected with the Uni- 
versity received his fullest consideration, and enjoyed the advantages 
of his reforms,—on natural science, in all its branches, he bestowed 
