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looking down under the shadows of age, and they wished 

 to show their fraternal feeling for those who are spend- 

 ing their later years as the brothers spent their earlier 

 years — under the restrictions of respectable poverty. 



It was natural that the claims of advancing age should 

 be most pressing on them and claim their first attention. 

 With united purses, share and share alike, they built 

 the spacions Home for Aged Men upon these adjoining- 

 grounds, and the enterprise was committed to its mission. 



That philanthropy assured, they bethought themselves 

 of appropriating some of their wealth to the advancement 

 of the education of youth. This plan was promptly decid- 

 ed, and again with equal contributions they built a line 

 laboratory for the study of physical sciences at Yassar 

 College, made absolute transfer of the property, and then 

 turned their attention to a problem for serving the men 

 of middle age. 



They summoned representatives from the Literary 

 Clnb of this City and from the assiduous workers of the 

 Society of Natural Science. To them they said — Unite 

 your forces and let us be yonr benefactors. We wish to 

 erect for you a building suited to your wants. We 

 would include the students of Art in our benefaction, 

 and to such a union of the intellectual workers of our 

 city we would give a habitation, a chance for enduring 

 influence. That offer was gladly accepted and an archi- 

 tect was requested to submit his plans. The very day 

 when those plans came to this city, the elder brother 

 heard a voice calling to him from the unknown world, 

 and he, submissive to the summons, turned his face from 

 us, from his cherished hopes, from his beloved brother, 

 and went away. 



The younger brother assumed the execution of the en- 

 terprise, bade the architect enlarge his plans, spare no 

 cost, more than doubled the original estimates, and ad- 

 vised that the work be quickly done. The work com- 

 pleted should be his monument to his brother. A few 

 minutes ago he gave us welcome to this spacious build- 

 ing. Since his words of welcome were spoken the magi- 

 cal ceremonial of the law has been performed. The title 

 of this property has been transferred. It is no longer in 

 him. It is the possession of this Society. He cannot 

 now welcome us to this building. It is our privilege to 



