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the excellency and usefulness of tliat manhood depends up- 

 on the wisdom, the sagacity, the care and the skill of him 

 to whom is entrusted the rearing and training of that boy! 

 Socrates was the teacher of Phito and of Aristotle, the 

 briglitest luminaries of the ancient heathen world ! And 

 of this last, Philip of Macedon, the w^isest monarch of his 

 day, and father of Alexander the Great, is said to have ex- 

 pressed his high admiration by writing, that he was not so 

 "thankful to the Gods for making him a father, as he w^s 

 for their giving him a son in an age when he could have 

 Aristotle for his instructor." 



If the time permitted I could tell you, by the recital of 

 remembered instances, how Professor Mitchell's wise and 

 far-reaching care, his ever-present and friendly watchful- 

 ness and parental solicitude for the student, manifested 

 themselves in the lecture room, on public occasions, in the 

 social circle, and in the administration of discipline. Eve- 

 ry where, and in all things, he acted as if under an abiding 

 conviction, that he was forming the princij^les and char- 

 'detev of those to whom would presentl}^ be committed, not 

 only their own individual, personal happiness, but the 

 guardianship of the great public interests of the land, and 

 the momentous concerns of souls that would live when the 

 cares and turmoil of this world were ended. Thoughts 

 dwelling upon these responsibilities were ever present with 

 him, and words of instruction, of advice and of warning, as 

 the occasion served, mingled themselves in, and if I may 

 »o say, infused fragrance to, all his direct communications 

 with the young. I could tell you how he projected short 

 pedestrian excursions into the surrounding country for the 

 benefit of his class, in order that the}' might reduce the prin- 

 ciples of science which they had learned from the book into 

 practice ; and how his conversation always abounded with 

 striking and pleasant anecdotes, about men of other coun- 

 tries and other times ; intended by him not only to relievfes 

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