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bridge College Halls, but much larger, and a theatre for p-iblic 

 celebrations (in which the Greek play was performed not long 

 ago), with a sort of tnnsept between the t\vo, giving entrance 

 to each, the walls of which are covered with memorial tablets 

 containing the lists of the graduates of the several faculties, 

 with a number of appropriate mottoes. It was the going over 

 these lists and recognizing so many names of the old New 

 England families, that impressed me more than anything else 

 with a feeling how completely the war had penetrated every 

 circle of Northern society. O. W. Holmes s son, who has been 

 Professor of Law at Harvard, and has been just made a judge 

 (at the age of forty), went to the war before he graduated, and 

 was wounded three times. Theodore Lyman, brother-in-law of 

 Alexander Agassiz, whom I only knew as a naturalist (he has 

 just brought out an admirable monograph in the Challenger 

 Series), served on the staff of one of the Generals, and now 

 holds the rank of Colonel. He has just been elected to Con 

 gress. In every cemetery the graves of those who fell are 

 specially distinguished by small flags; and there are generally 

 little societies for keeping them decorated with flowers. I 

 asked Dr. Morison what he considered to have been the 

 principal motive that impelled the Northern volunteers ; and 

 he said without hesitation that it was &quot; country.&quot; The anti- 

 slavery feeling doubtless helped, but it was not the moving 

 power. The more I come to know of what they went through, 

 the less I have been surprised at their complaint of want of 

 sympathy on our parts, and their interpretation of our coldness 

 as resulting from a desire for a split that should destroy the 

 union which they felt bound by all the ties of patriotism to 

 uphold. . . . 



A great sensation was produced while we were in Boston 

 by a paper read at the Unitarian Club by Dr. George Ellis, 

 as to the proper mode of now dealing with orthodoxy. He ex 

 pressed the conviction that in the old controversies in which 

 the discussion was upon the meaning of texts, both sides accept 

 ing the Scriptural authority, the orthodox had the best of it ; 

 and that the way now to deal with the questions at issue is 

 to throw over this authority altogether. I think he is quite 



