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in active use the powers we all honor so much to-day, and 

 thus the years that are to come after we have gone to our 

 reward will find him still a beneficent force in the com- 

 munity. 



In response to a toast to the city of Salem, the Mayor, 

 GEN. WM. COGSWELL, spoke as follows : 



I yield to no one in my sympathy with the aims and 

 objects of this Institute, which to-night celebrates and com- 

 pletes its twenty-fifth year of existence. Though a passive 

 rather than an active member of it, I have never failed to 

 watch with interest its doings, and lean bear witness to 

 its success ; and to you, Mr. President, chiefly and above 

 all others, is due the fact that we of a younger generation 

 have seen the coming in, and do now see the going out, of 

 the year which goes to make the first quarter of a century 

 of its existence ; and as some of these gentlemen about 

 me will say that a man who has weathered the storms of 

 twenty-five years of his life is more likely to live another 

 equal term of years than one who has not reached that 

 age, so I believe that this is but one of another and still 

 another, and many more quarter centuries, of an institu- 

 tion dedicated to a higher education and better knowledge 

 of the good old County of Essex. 



I cannot refrain from saying again, that whatever meas- 

 ure of success, whatever of advancement, whatever of 

 good, has so far been obtained, is, as it seems to me solely 

 because of the devotion, industry and skill of one whose 

 modesty on this, and on other occasions, is the best indi- 

 cation of the true worth of its possessor. Seldom, sir, is 

 it given to man to see so mu^h of the success of his own 

 good works, as is given to you on this occasion, while it 

 is never given to us to appreciate at their full value such 

 works, until the hand, the heart, the brain which wrought 

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