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to the writer of these lines: "Whatever I may have of in- 

 tegrity of character, I owe to Carlyle. I became acquainted 

 with his writings early in my life, and he has had the great- 

 est influence over me of any man who ever wrote." Mr. Hit- 

 tell was also sensibly molded by Carlyle's gospel of work; 

 few men ever carried out so conscientiously the doctrine of 

 unremitting, strenuous toil. Thus may we account for 

 achievements in a single lifetime seldom exceeded in extent 

 and excellence combined. He enjoyed his life to the full, and 

 he had the proud consciousness of success in almost every- 

 thing he undertook. 



In his latest years, outside of his interest in the Academy, 

 he was a spectator rather than a participant in public activi- 

 ties. In consequence, his opinions were not modified through 

 actual friction with events, and he did not, from the stand- 

 point of the present, keep up with the startling changes in 

 modern methods and beliefs. To the unthinking or unim- 

 aginative, he was of the old school, of a past era, of ancient 

 viewpoints. So, too, may we all, as the years draw to the 

 end, be regarded by the rising generation as old-fashioned in 

 principle and as unprogressive ; and so, too, may we, in return, 

 look upon the latest generation as too radical, unchristian, or 

 even immoral. It is the way of all time. The new crowds 

 out the old, and is in turn crowded out by the still newer. 

 Each may be right in the light of his own time ; for one day 

 differeth from another in glory and in the shadows which it 

 casts. 



G. W, Dickie, 

 Leverett Mills Loomis, 

 Ran.som Pratt, 



Committee. 



