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scope of her good influence, the millions of men on whom 

 her influence may be made to tell through all the ampli- 

 tudes of space and time. When I contemplate such a sub- 

 ject, the reason is content to yield to the imagination. I 

 remember the photograph, the magnetic telegraph, the 

 discovery of vaccination, the painless operations of surgery, 

 — the triumphs, the miracles of genius. I seem to see, for 

 the Earth herself and her cultivators, the coming time, 

 when husbandry, attended by all the ministries of science 

 and art, shall illumine and rejuvenate her countenance, 

 and recreate our life below." 



Notwithstanding the magnificent appeal of his Excel- 

 lency the Governor, the inauguration of the new college 

 dragged slowly on until the election of William Smith Clark 

 to the presidency in 1867. Clark was by nature and culture 

 a man of science. He had for several years been professor 

 of chemistry and had also occupied the chairs of botany 

 and zoology in Amherst College. He had made a brilliant 

 record in the Civil War, as Colonel of the Twenty-First 

 Massachusetts Volunteers, and had had some experience 

 in political life. He brought to his new duties fine abilities 

 as an organizer and administrator, was possessed by an en- 

 thusiasm, founded on moral convictions, that a great work 

 could be done, of lasting benefit to the people, and that he 

 could help do it. He wielded a graceful pen, possessed ad- 

 mirable powers of persuasion and a knowledge of men 

 which came both by instinct and a large experience of the 

 world. He was emphatically a man of affairs and knew how 

 to meet men. 



The unexpected is among the certainties in the lives of 

 men. "No man," said Oliver Cromwell, to the agents 



