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the public welfare ; and there are others of the race, 

 ready, we doubt not, to take up the line of march in a 

 kindred spirit. 



Among the figures of the past that continue to rise 

 before me, I discern Jones Very, the modest, retiring 

 poet, who, as Greek tutor at Cambridge, in his walks with 

 one and another of us Freshmen, strengthened our best 

 aspirations, and drew, in later life, from such a man as the 

 late William Goodwin Russell, the leading advocate in 

 Boston, a heartfelt tribute to the value of a close personal 



intercourse with such a man as 

 Jones Very at the forming period 

 of one's life. 



Time and again have I heard 

 my father express, in glowing 

 terms, his sense of the inestimable 

 value to the Institute of the ser- 

 vices of the late Dr. Henry Wheat- 

 land. 



And now let us hear Eeverend 

 Charles T. Brooks (whose schol- 

 arly face always retained the sweet ingenuousness of 

 childhood). 



I speak for himself in the closing lines of the Ode for 

 the Dedication of Plummer Hall, which (after alluding to 

 Salem as the " City of Peace ") continues : 



" God of Peace, the city keep ! 



Guarded well by -watchmen three ! 

 Sentinels that never sleep, 



Learning, Faith, and Liberty. 



HoTyot^e ChaiT 



The President here alluded to the ancient chair that he 

 was using, as associated with Dr. Holyoke. It was an 

 Elizabethan arm chair presented to the Historical Society 

 at its initial meeting in 1821, and then two centuries old,^ 



