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chology in the United States, and who left a pro- 

 fessorship among us to become first President of 

 Clark University in Worcester, — a learned and in- 

 spiring philosopher, devoted to the education of 

 teachers in schools of every grade from the lowest 

 to the highest. 



James Schouiee, successful lecturer and writer 

 on law and history, a lover of truth, a diligent ex- 

 plorer of the historical archives of this country, 

 author of a history of the United States, compre- 

 hensive and trustworthy. 



John William Mallet, of the University of 

 Virginia, one of that brilliant band of lecturers to 

 whom we listened in the winter of 1876-77, an 

 ornament of the University founded by Jefferson, 

 where scholars of every birthplace are made to 

 feel at home; where two of our earliest colleagues 

 had been professors. He is a chemist of inter- 

 national renown, whose researches are an endur- 

 ing contribution to the science that he professes. 



Charles Doolittle Walcott, Superintendent 

 of the United States Geological Survey, a govern- 

 ment bureau of the highest standing, that extends 

 its investigations to every part of the land, secur- 

 ing for other States, as it does for Maryland, an 

 accurate knowledge of the structure and resources 

 of the earth. The chief of this survey is a geol- 

 ogist whose administrative duties have not pre- 

 vented his personal devotion to scientific research 

 in which he maintains acknowledged eminence. 



Simon Newcomb, professor of mathematics in 

 the United States Navy, once professor here, who 

 has carried forward the researches initiated by 

 Copernicus. His astronomical memoirs, above the 

 ken of ordinary minds, have caused his name to be 

 enrolled in the learned academies of Europe among 

 the great investigators of celestial laws. 



I have now the honor to present to you 

 two scholai's from a neighboring common- 

 wealth, the Dominion of Canada, the rep- 

 resentative of the University of Toronto, 

 and the representative of McGill Univer- 

 sity in Montreal, who came to rejoice with 

 us in this our festival,— James Loudon 

 and William Peterson. We welcome 

 them in the brotherhood of scholarship 

 which knows of no political bounds, appre- 

 ciating what they have done to uphold the 

 highest standards of education in two great 

 universities, Avith which we are closely af- 

 filiated. 



It is not easy to discriminate among our 

 own alumni, so many of whom we honor 

 and admire, but on this occasion I have 

 been asked to present four candidates, all 

 of whom are widely known as scholars. 



JosiAH Royce, a graduate of the University of 

 California, one of the first to be called to a fellow- 

 ship among us, and one of the first four 

 Doctors of Philosophy in this University, Doctor 

 Subtilis, now Professor in Harvard University, 

 Gifford lecturer in two of the Scotch universities, 

 historian, man of letters, and philosopher. 



John Franklin Jameson, of the University of 

 Chicago, one of the most accurate and serviceable 

 students of the Constitutional History of this 

 country, an editor of historical papers, whose rare 

 erudition is always placed at the command of 

 others in a spirit of generous cooperation. 



Edmund B. Wilson, of Columbia University, a 

 profound investigator and an acknowledged 

 authority in biological science, — one of the men 

 not seen by the outer world, who look deeply into 

 the fundamental laws of organic life. 



WooDROW Wilson, of Princeton University, 

 writer and speaker of grace and force, whose 

 vision is so broad that it includes both north and 

 south, a master of the principles which underlie a 

 free government, whom we would gladly enrol 

 among us a Professor of Historical and Political 

 Science. 



I now present to you nine men, the num- 

 ber of the muses, each of whom, like others 

 already presented to you, is a leader of 

 higher education,— two from New Eng- 

 land, two from the Central States, two 

 from the far South, one from the North- 

 west, and two from the Pacific coast. 

 These are all our collaborators, — sentinels 

 on the watch towers, heralds of the dawn. 



Francis Landey Patton, under whose presi- 

 dency ' old Nassau Hall,' the College of New Jer- 

 sey, has become the University of Princeton, re- 

 vered as a preacher of righteousness, admired as 

 an Abelard in dialectics, beloved as an inspiring 

 teacher of theology and philosophy. 



William Rainey Harper, interpreter of the 

 Sacred Scriptures, a fearless leader, a skillful 

 organizer, who has brought into the front rank 

 the University of Chicago. 



Charles William Dabney, of the University 

 of Tennessee, a man of science, and Edward A. 



