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CHAPTER XVII. 



THE DREAM FULFILLED. 



'The new professor rose from his place, amidst the highest 

 university authorities in their official seats ; and in that clear manly 

 voice, which so long retained its hold on the memory of those who 

 hearvl it, began, amidst deep silence, the opening words of his in- 

 augural lecture. Even to an indifferent spectator in must have 

 been striking, amidst the general decay of the professorial system in 

 Oxford, and at the time when the number of hearers rarely ex- 

 ceeded thirty or forty students, to see a chair, in itself the most 

 important in the place but which, from the infirmities of the late 

 professor, had been practically vacant for nearly twenty years 

 filled at last by a man whose very look and manner bespoke a 

 genius and energy capable of discharging its duties, as they had 

 never been discharged before, and at that moment commanding an 

 audience unprecedented in the range of academical memory. . . . 

 The whole place seemed to have received an element of freshness 

 and vigour. . . . But to many of his audience there was the yet 

 deeper interest of again listening to that well-known voice and 

 gazing on that well-known face, in the relation of pupils to their 

 teacher.' STANLEY, Life of Arnold. 



ON Linnaeus's return from this tour the professorship 

 of Physics and Anatomy at Upsala became vacant by 

 the resignation of Dr. Roberg, who had held it over 

 thirty years. Roberg requested his dismissal, which 

 was granted, with the appendage of his whole salary, 

 as he had exercised his functions over thirty years. 1 

 1 Pulteney. 



