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Next day, at St. Andrew's Church, he, as usual, had charge 

 of the organ. Into his opening voluntary he wove the 

 music of the preceding evening, the "Feste Burg"; it 

 ran through all the chants of the morning service ; it per- 

 vaded the accompaniment to the hymns; it formed the 

 undertone of all the interludes; it was not relinquished 

 until the close of the postlude. And the same was true of 

 the afternoon service. I have always insisted that, had he 

 lived in Germany, he would have been a second Beethoven. 

 This will seem a grossly exaggerated tribute, but I do not 

 hesitate to maintain it. So passionately was he devoted 

 to music that at times he sent his piano away from his 

 house in order to shun temptation to abridge his profes- 

 sorial work, and especially was this the case when he was 

 preparing his edition of Vergil. A more lovely spirit 

 never abode in mortal frame. No man was ever more 

 generally beloved in a community ; none, more lamented at 

 his death. The splendid organ erected as a memorial to 

 him in the great auditorium of the university; the noble 

 monument which his students have placed over his grave ; 

 his portrait, which hangs in one of the principal rooms; 

 the society which commemorates his name all combine 

 to show how deeply he was respected and beloved. 



Entwined also with my happiest recollections is Brun- 

 now, professor of astronomy and director of the observa- 

 tory. His eminence in his department was widely rec- 

 ognized, as was shown when he was afterward made 

 director of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, N. Y., and, 

 finally, astronomer royal of Ireland. His musical abilities, 

 in connection with those of Frieze, aided to give a delight- 

 ful side to this period of my life. There was in him a quiet 

 simplicity which led those who knew him best to love him 

 most, but it occasionally provoked much fun among the 

 students. On one occasion, President Tappan, being sud- 

 denly called out of town, requested Brunnow, who had 

 married his daughter and was an inmate of his family, to 

 find some member of the faculty to take his place at morn- 

 ing prayers next day. Thereupon Brunnow visited sev- 



