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Memorial of Orlando Meads, LL. D. 



.sixty years before ; and in looking back over such a long membership, 

 moved. We rejoiced with him in the occurrence of such a pleasant 



lot of anybody, that when it happens it cannot fail to gain recognition. 

 Not merely that it speaks of along life: the art of continuing exis- 

 tence is one that cannot be learned even through much study, and 

 when long life comes to any one, it is from the -bountiful favor of 

 nature, to whom alone must be the praise. But to have lived for 

 sixty years in active communication with one's fellow-men, and through 

 all that time to have given up the mind to steady and successful cul- 

 ture and development, — year by year through study and example 

 to have exerted a beneficent and extending influence upon one's day 

 and generation, — to have practiced a profession stainlessly, and to 

 have gained in it such honors as most surely show the kindly regard 

 and influence of others, and to have gone through life without a friend- 

 ship broken or grown cold ; this is one of those careers which must 



the Institute now seeks to put on record its just appreciation and loving 

 memory of Orlando Meads. 



