inanimate is not enhanced by possessing the elements of beauty ? 

 Plant trees. Let me tell you of my personal experience as showing 

 what one liberal-minded, public-spirited man may do to make his 

 memory blessed. 



During my senior year while sitting in my college room one day? 

 a rap at the door was followed by the entrance of an old gentleman 

 of over 80 who came he said to again visit his old room, which he 

 as a student had occupied over 60 years before, and in v which I was 

 to him almost an intruder. He also wished to borrow the keys of 

 one of the libraries, that he might see how it had grown since he 

 was librarian over 60 years ago. Upon returning from his visit to 

 the library he told me how when he was appointed librarian he 

 had taken the library in a wheelbarrow down to the book binders 

 to be rebound. All in a barrow load, and I could not but think, 

 said he, how many wagon loads it would take to carry the present 

 library. But he added, that is nothing to the other changes I see 

 about me. Why, said he, when I was a senior I looked out of that 

 window and saw General Hillhouse while he was setting out the 

 elm saplings along that street, and what a glorious sight they are 

 to-day. 



Aye, old man, glorious indeed they are, and to-day the crown- 

 ing glory of that beautiful city are those overarching vaults of 

 green, which have made the " Elm City"" a synonym for beauty 

 wherever upon this planet the English language is spoken, and, 

 need I say it, that they have added hundreds of thousands of dol- 

 lars to the value of the real estate. 



Finally, ladies and gentlemen, let me conclude by urging upon 

 your most earnest consideration the most important matter of all 

 in my judgment, one which, receiving the attention due its para- 

 mount importance will open up the way for every good which is 

 possible to the race and hasten the time when the highest success 

 will crown our efforts in every direction. 



Fichte said that "if Germany was ever to be free and strong 

 it would be by becoming the chief educational state in Europe; 

 and realize that the education of its youth was the highest care of 

 the nation." 



Milton said of England that " the reforming of education is 

 one of the greatest and noblest of designs that can be thought of 

 and for the want of which this nation perishes." 



