22 TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



assert and prove the highest claim to the confidence and support 

 of the administration. 



Meanwhile the head of the Catholic church in the United States 

 provides schools for all the children of his church, applies disci- 

 pline to secure their attendance, pays the tax to support the pub- 

 lic schools, and performs foreign missions of the highest order for 

 the administration ; and in this connection it is curious to observe, 

 in an able and conciliatory article in the Edinburgh Review, a 

 suggestion that Washington is an appropriate place for the Papal 

 residence, while the Roman question is liable to be violently 

 discussed. 



It rarely happens that any one but a political laAvyer turns 

 aside to party controversy and public office without being pushed 

 on farther than he intended, and gravely injuring his former pur- 

 suit and position ; and so it happened to Dr. Reese. 



In the offices which he filled in the American Institute Dr. 

 Reese was sagacious, firm and faithful, and deserves to be well 

 remembered. 



If that is a happy life, which is filled up with the largest 

 measure of agreeable and innocent emotions, then Dr. Reese pro- 

 bably attained it ; and if his wit would sometimes, in spite of 

 him, boil over upon a fool, he had occasion to remember the say- 

 ing of Bacon, "that he that is of a keen wit had need to take 

 heed of other men's memories." But the habitual and earnest 

 bent of his mind and life was in the direction of doing good. 



Mr. Jireh Bull offered the following resolution, which was una- 

 nimously adopted : 



Resolved, That the thanks of the Institute be presented to Prof. 

 Mason for the memorial of the late Dr. Reese, which he has this 

 evening presented, and that he be requested to furnish a copy 

 thereof for publication, and to be presented to his family. 



