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ty, and assumed the duties of the chair of Mathematics. 

 I was there then, an untaught, undisciplined and unsophis- 

 ticated youth. I remember what a deep impression his 

 commanding form, his noble brow on which mind seemed 

 enthroned, and his dark, lustrous eye made upon our young 

 hearts. Besides him there were the President, the vene- 

 rable Dr. Caldwell, Dr. Hooper, Professor of languages, 

 and two Tutors, the late Priestly H. Mangum, and John 

 M. Morehead, afterwards Governor of the State. Profes- 

 sor Olmsted, now of Yale, his '^Jidus et cants comes " 

 added his strength to the Academic Corps, some months 

 later. How many now living and dead whose characters, 

 as developed in the various departments of human life, have 

 the precepts and example of Professor Mitchell in the last 

 forty years contributed more than any other man's influ- 

 ence to form and develope ! 



Does any one ask where are the monuments of his labors ? 

 We answer they will be found among the members of the 

 Cabinet — among Senators in the Council Chamber — Rep- 

 resentatives in the Halls of Congress — Governors of States 

 — Judges sitting in the highest places of Justice — Legisla- 

 tors — Ministers to Foreign Governments — Heralds of the 

 Cross — Men of renown in all the departments of human 

 enterprise — Lawyers, Physicians, Professors, Schoolmas- 

 ters — a mighty array of talent, of learning and worth, the 

 influence of which is felt through all the land, and will con- 

 tinue to be felt while industry and knowledge shall be 

 honored, or gratitude find a name and place of esteem 

 among men. 



Have not the recorded observations of mankind given 

 the character of an established and admitted fact to the as- 

 sertion that a man's future usefulness depends upon his 

 early associations ? and that the destiny of every human 

 being is written upon his heart by his Mother or by. his 

 Teacher ? If " the Boy is father of the Man," how much of 



