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the end of the earth.” There my son and his poster- 
ity have dwelt and multiplied, and the love and serv- 
ice of the College which I should approve have not 
been wholly wanting among them. In so remote a 
place there must be urgent need of instruction, 
though the report seems to be well founded that set- 
tlements farther westward have since been made, and 
that some even of my own posterity have penetrated 
the continent to the shores of the Pacific Sea. Among 
the descendants of John Hoar have been that worthy 
Professor John Farrar, whose beautiful face in marble 
is among the precious possessions of the College; that 
dear and faithful woman who gave the whole of her 
humble fortune to establish a scholarship therein, 
Levina Hoar; and others who as Fellows or Overseers 
have done what they could for its prosperity and 
growth. 
Pardon my prolixity, but the story I have told is 
but a prelude to my request of your kindness. There 
is no authentic mode in which departed souls can im- 
part their wishes to those who succeed them in this 
world but these, the record or memory of their 
thoughts and deeds, while on earth; or the reappear- 
ance of their qualities of mind and character in their 
lineal descendants. 
In this first year of Radcliffe College, — when so 
far as seems practicable and wise, the advantages 
which our dear Harvard College, “the defiance of 
the Puritan to the savage and the wilderness,” has so 
long bestowed upon her sons, are through your means 
to be shared by the sisters and daughters of our peo- 
