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the National Teachers ' Association at Washington, on the 

 Relation of the Universities to the State School Systems ; 

 before the American Social Science Association of New 

 York, on Sundry Ref orrns in University Management ; be- 

 fore the National Association of Teachers at Detroit, on 

 the Relations of Universities to Colleges; before four 

 thousand people at Cleveland, on the Education of the 

 Freedmen; before the Adalbert College, on the Concen- 

 tration of Means for the Higher Education; before the 

 State Teachers' Association at Saratoga, on Education 

 and Democracy; at the Centennial banquet at Philadel- 

 phia, on the American Universities; and before my 

 class at Yale University, on the Message of the Nine- 

 teenth Century to the Twentieth; besides many public 

 lectures before colleges, schools, and special assemblies. 

 There seemed more danger of wearing out than of rusting 

 out, especially as some of these discourses provoked at- 

 tacks which must be answered. Time also was required 

 for my duties as president of the American Social Science 

 Association, which lasted several years, and of the Ameri- 

 can Historical Society, which, though less engrossing, im- 

 posed for a time much responsibility. Then, too, there 

 was another duty, constantly pressing, which I had es- 

 pecially at heart. The day had not yet arrived when the 

 president of the university could be released from his 

 duties as a professor. I had, indeed, no wish for such 

 release; for, of all my duties, that of meeting my senior 

 students face to face in the lecture-room and interesting 

 them in the studies which most interested me, and which 

 seemed most likely to fit them to go forth and bring the 

 influence of the university to bear for good upon the coun- 

 try at large, was that which I liked best. The usual rou- 

 tine of administrative cares was almost hateful to me, 

 and I delegated minor details, as far as possible, to those 

 better fitted to take charge of them especially to the vice- 

 president and registrar and secretary of the faculty. But 

 my lecture-room I loved. Of all occupations, I know of 

 none more satisfactory than that of a university pro- 



