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from 302 to 1,198 during his incumbency of the presidency, he raised 

 the standard of the school in like proportion. Tlie graduates of the 

 institute are found everywhere, and, so far as my own knowledge is 

 concerned, always with the same result as to their standing and their 

 efficiency. 



It must be admitted that as an educator in the very highest sense 

 President Walker had no superior, and with that rare faculty of 

 acquiring a personal relationship to each student his influence has 

 never been surpassed, except it may be in the case of Mark Hopkins. 



How can I sum up the life of General Walker? His works, his serv- 

 ice as a public officer, his devoted life as an educator, his brilliant 

 career as a soldier — all these apj^ea^. to one; and yet they in themselves, 

 taken all together, making, as they do, a magnificent monument to his 

 memory, planned, erected, completed by himself, do not fully answer 

 the question. One must have known him personally, have known his 

 devoted adherence to principle, have realized and felt his courageous 

 action at all times in order to completely appreciate and understand 

 him. How^ many knew him ! How many miss him ! The Loyal Legion 

 knew him — knew him as a brave soldier, a man of cai)acity in the field, 

 a man of resources in planning, and a man of courage in carrying out 

 his plans; a man who won the commendation, the admiration, the 

 affection of his comrades in arms, whether of low or of high rank. 

 The institutions of learning with which he was connected knew him; 

 students knew him as a man who loved them, who believed in their 

 sports, who entered into their ambitions and asi)irations, who guided 

 them with his advice. He once wrote to a young man that he never 

 wished to shut the door on anyone Avho was seeking an education, and 

 was alw^ays willing to give another trial to a young man who had 

 failed. You and I know that as an educator he won their affection. 

 They felt at liberty to approach him personally, to call upon him, to 

 visit him. I know how the men who came from under his guidance 

 here in the institute stand in the world, how their services are sought, 

 how their preeminent attainments secure for them at once a living 

 position. 



The economists and statisticians of the country will miss him; they 

 knew him, knew his worth, knew his integrity in all that interests 

 them, knew the value of his advice. The philanthropic and benevolent 

 institutions of this State and city knew him and will miss him, for he 

 was ever ready to give his thought, his sympathy, and his presence to 

 all good enterprises, and his kindly sympathy with those who had 

 fallen along the track of life was warm and devoted. * * * 



