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of lesser men. The day of great things was to him the day of small 

 things also, and he had faith in those who forged their sentences 

 as a " gold beater prepares a setting for pearls." 



His interest in the affairs of the community, the state and the 

 nation was that of a willing and service-loving citizen. Baltimore's 

 debt to him is deep and lasting. He helped to model her charter, 

 he was a cooperator in her charities and her philanthropies, and 

 was an adviser and more than an adviser in promoting her educa- 

 tional welfare. He was in constant demand for addresses, presen- 

 tations, and similar functions, both public and private. The Pea- 

 body Institute, the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the Samuel Ready 

 Orphan School, the McDonogh School, the Mercantile Library, the 

 Municipal Art Society, the Reform Leagues in city and state, the 

 Charity Organization Society, and the public schools, all to a greater 

 or less extent, received impulse or profit from his cooperation, and 

 no movement for good in the city and state failed to enlist his atten- 

 tion or his services. 



That which was true of city and state was also true of the 

 nation. At one time or another he was president of the American 

 Bible Society, of the Slater Fund to educate the Freedmen, of the 

 National Civil Service Reform League, and of the American Social 

 Science Association ; he was vice-president of the Peabody Southern 

 Education Fund, a member of the Board of Visitors of the Naval 

 Academy, a trustee of the General Board to promote Education 

 throughout the Union and of the Russell Sage Foundation, and a 

 member of the Venezuelan Boundary Commission. He held these 

 positions not as offices of honor but as offices of trust, involving 

 frequent attendance, extensive travel, and wide correspondence. 



In the world of scholarship as in the world of education and 

 philanthropy he was equally versatile and widely interested. For 

 thirteen years he served as president of the American Oriental So- 

 ciety, was a corresponding member of the British Association and 

 the Massachusetts Historical Society, and a member of many other 

 societies of an historical or scientific character. Most important of 

 all, he became the first president of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington founded for the promotion of scholarship and research. 



These varied connections were but the outward manifestations 



