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came to recite a lesson. He too was invaluable in his 

 place. 



On coming to New Haven, I found Mr. Silliman associ- 

 ated with Mr. (afterwards President) Day, Mr. Davis, Mr. 

 Kingsley, and my brother, Ebenezer Grant Marsh, in the Tu- 

 tor's office ; (there were then no Professors but Mr. Meigs ;) 

 and rooming as I did with my brother, I often saw those 

 lovely men there freely unbending amid the cares and labors 

 of office ; and never were there more congenial spirits, or men 

 more worthy of their stations. No wonder that Dr. Dwight 

 loved them, and conceived the thought of establishing them 

 as Professors for life. When Mr. Silliman returned from 

 his first winter in Philadelphia, and commenced lecturing on 

 chemistry, our class rushed to the lecture-room with great 

 eagerness to see and hear, and we considered ourselves as 

 peculiarly fortunate in being born at so late a period, and 

 as already wiser than all who had gone before us. What 

 much impressed us, and made us feel that this was a new 

 science, was to see Dr. Dwight, with whom we supposed 

 was all wisdom and all knowledge, come regularly to the 

 lectures, take a seat on the same floor with the scholars, 

 (that he might see the experiments,) and drink in with 

 great gusto all the truths which were developed. 



Perhaps I have gone as far as you may wish, in these 

 early remembrances of one whom from my boyhood I have 

 known and loved, and who from his attachment to my 

 father's family at Wethersfield, and to my brother who died 

 in the Tutorship, and I may perhaps add to the cause of 

 temperance, has ever admitted me to intimate friendship. 



One thing which I may not fail to mention, and which 

 endeared him to a large portion of the students, was his 

 sympathy with the great revival of 1802. Had he turned 

 from it in disgust, and become an infidel philosopher, what 

 a blast he would have proved among scientific men. But 

 he meekly bowed to the yoke of Christ. In August, 1802, 

 I with sixteen others, some of them proved eminent 



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