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Wadsworth of Hartford, whom of course I knew. The 

 other was a stranger, whose manly strength and beauty of 

 person and ruddy freshness of countenance were in marked 

 contrast with the thin features and attenuated form of Mr. 

 Wadsworth. They looked at a print in the window. " Do 

 you not recognize it ? " said Mr. Wadsworth to his com- 

 panion. "Oh yes," was the reply; "it is Guildhall." I 

 had some feeling akin to sublimity in the thought that I 

 was standing so near two gentlemen at once, who had 

 travelled to London and seen Guildhall ; and the impres- 

 sion became deeper when I was told, a moment afterwards, 

 that the stranger was Professor Silliman, Mr. Wadsworth's 

 brother-in-law. 



When I came to College two years afterwards, President 

 Dwight had just passed away ; and though I had heard 

 the names of the eminent men who had been associated 

 with him, and were still connected with the College, the 

 name that was most brilliant to my imagination was that 

 of Professor Silliman, who had been made famous by his 

 published volumes of travels in Great Britain and on the 

 Continent of Europe. That work " Silliman's Journal " 

 it was called made its author widely known long before 

 there was any popular interest in the sciences of which he 

 was the pioneer Professor. Thus he became somewhat 

 as Dr. Dwight was in his time a medium of connection 

 between the learned and scientific community of the Col- 

 lege and the great world outside. From first to last, his 

 usefulness was due in no small measure to the fact that he 

 was an organ of communication between this College com- 

 munity, secluded by the nature of its pursuits, and the 

 great outside community for which the College exists. 

 There was formerly there is now something like a 

 natural tendency among the people at large to be jealous 

 of institutions of learning, as if there was something aris- 

 tocratic and anti-popular in them. No man in the history 

 of the College has done more than Professor Silliman has 



