Benjamin Silliman. 3 
teacher successively on the catalogues of the college. He was 
a pupil both of Dr, Stiles and Dr. Dwight, and the colleague of 
the latter during eighteen years. With President Day and Pro- 
fessor Kingsley he was associated for half a century and more 
in the government of the institution. 
In the capacity of a college officer, he was preéminent as a 
teacher. The professor’s chair, in the laboratory or the lecture- - 
room, was the place above all others in which his enthusiasm, 
his sympathy with youthful aspirations, his varied acquisitions, 
is acquaintance with the world of Nature and of Art, and hi 
courses, that on geology, he gave with peculiar zest and elo- 
Soars and to clothe the world with the plants and animals of 
former days. 
Professor Silliman was less concerned in the government of 
the students than some of his associates; but questions were 
continually arising in which his counsel was of weight. He 
was prompt in rebuking every form of youthful delinquency, yet 
was never harsh or inconsiderate. No student ever left his pres- 
ence feeling wronged or indignant. He would much rather sac- 
rifice a rule than injure an offender. If he seemed sometimes 
to be lenient, it was the leniency of a father, for his mind re- 
tded the improvement of his scholars rather than the enforce- 
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