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triumphs. Nor did he only urge them forward; he held up a torch to 

 direct their steps, and his elementary works upon Geometrical Ana- 

 lysis and Mechanics, adopted as the Text-books in the University, 

 prove how completely he identified himself with the progress of the 

 student, while at the same time they illustrate the power of that 

 mind which could grapple with and overcome the most difficult of 

 all intellectual labours, the rendering familiar and facile the elements 

 of science. And our President was successful. The mind of our 

 youth required but to be stimulated and directed. We are now as it 

 were centuries in advance of what we, a few years ago, viewed as the 

 limit of attainment, and many, whom to praise would be superfluous, 

 and whom I would name, but that they are present, form the best 

 comment on our President's zeal and foresight. 



As Provost, the same great objects were ever present to his mind„ 

 Education, over which he presided, called for his undivided atten- 

 tion, and he bestowed it ; and by the changes which he effected in 

 its literary, scientific, and ethical departments, he has acquired for 

 himself among the friends of the mind of Ireland imperishable glory. 

 This is not the place to speak in detail of the many improvements he 

 suggested or adopted ; of the different courses of study which he 

 supplied to the differing inclinations or tendencies of mind ; of the 

 elevation of mental and moral science to the station, which, in such 

 a country as ours, it should maintain ; of the separation of the im- 

 portant duties of the Professor from the laborious and important, 

 but subordinate, occupation of the Tutor ; still less of the zeal with 

 which he watched over the theological course of the University, 

 and laboured to raise it to meet the exigencies of the times, and 

 the wants of the people. If tbe prosperity of a country be in- 

 separably connected with the education of the higher and middle 

 classes of the population, and if the progress of science and litera- 

 ture be the never-failing index of a civilized and moralized popu- 

 lation, then must the individual who extends or improves education 

 be ranked among the truest lovers of their country, and the name 

 of Lloyd will be handed down among the benefactors of Ireland. 



Nor was our late President exclusive in his attachment to Science 

 or to Instruction ; while the medical school connected with the Uni- 

 versity received his fullest consideration, and enjoyed the advantages 

 of his reforms, — on natural science, in all its branches, he bestowed 



