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the decease of Dr. Dwight he was chosen president, and continued in this 
office until his resignation in 1846. He fulfilled the duties of the pres 
published a brief paper, in the Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of 
Sciences, on the origin of meteorites, called out by the recent fall (im 
1807) of the meteorite of Weston, in which he took the ground, that 
ordinary development of any one of them. He was an cr 
and a easoner. His moral and religious excellence has been 
universally recognized from his youth up. J knew President 
Day will feel that there is any exaggeration in applying to him the 
Sentence; “Mark the perfect man and behold the upright, for the end of 
that man is y 
He was the last survivor of the colleagues whom President Dwight 
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and drew around him, and whose united labors first gave cele? 
paces Yale College. Kingsley, Silliman, and now Day, the o 
three, are gone ; but they deserve to be rpetually honor 
who feel an interest in the institution to which their labors were 
y childhood that city was his home. 
f Rochester in 1856, he afterwa 
