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INAUGURATION 
 
 OF 
 
 Pl\ESIDENT WeNI^ DaI^LING 
 
 OF 
 
 HAMILTON COLLEGE. 
 
PUBLIC EXERCISES 
 
 AT THE 
 
 INAUGURATION 
 
 OF 
 
 REV. HEIRT DARLING, D. D, LL. D., 
 
 AS THE 
 
 Eighth President of Hamilton College, 
 
 IN 
 
 CLINTON, N. Y., 
 
 ON 
 
 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 18,81. 
 
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 MAY i>4-^' 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE TRUSTEES. '"^ ' ^•:r 
 
 UTICA, N. Y. 
 
 Ellis H. Roberts & Co., Book and Job Printers. 
 
 1881. 
 

INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 Hamilton College began its existence as an Academy 
 for higher Christian Education, in 1793. Its founder, 
 Eev. Samuel Kirkland, was born in Norwich, Conn., 
 December 1, 17-il ; was graduated from Princeton College 
 in 1765 ; was a missionary to the Oneida Indians from 
 1776 to 1797; died in Clinton, February 28, 1808. The 
 principals of Hamilton Oneida Academy were, success- 
 ively, Rev. John ISTiles, Rev. Robert Porter and Prof. 
 Seth Norton — all graduates of Yale College. 
 
 In 1812, Hamilton College I'eceived the charter under 
 w^hich it is now organized, from the Regents of the Uni- 
 versity of the State of New York. Its first president, 
 Dr. AzEL Backus, was born in Franklin, Conn., October 
 13, 1765, and was graduated from Yale College in 1787. 
 The doors of the College were opened for students Octo- 
 ber 24, 1812, and recitations began on the 1st of No- 
 vember. The Inaugural Discourse of President Backus 
 was delivered December 3, 1812, in the Congregational 
 Church, in Clinton. Previous to his death, December 28, 
 1816, President Backus had given diplomas to 83 gradu- 
 ates and honorary alumni, in three classes. Of the 25 
 graduates under President Backus, the only survivors in 
 September, 1881, were Hon. Charles P. Kirkland, '16, 
 of New York, and Charles A. Thorp, '16, of Norwich. 
 
 The second president. Rev. Dr. Henry Davis, a native 
 of East Hampton, Long Island, w^as graduated from Yale 
 College in 1796; was a tutor in Williams College, 1796- 
 98 ; a tutor in Yale College, 1798-1803 ; Professor of 
 Greek in Union College, 1803-10; President of Middle- 
 bury College, 1810-17. Dr. Davis gave diplomas to 329 
 graduates and honorary alumni, in 17 classes. He re- 
 
4 Hamilton College. 
 
 signed the presidency in 1833, and died on College Hill^ 
 March 7, 1852, at the age of 82 years. 
 
 The third president, Rev. Dr. Sereno Edwards 
 D WIGHT, a son of President Timothy D wight, of Yale 
 College, was born at Greenfield Hill, Conn., May 18, 
 1786 ; was graduated from Yale College in 1803 ; a tutor 
 in Yale 1806-10, and pastor of Park Street Church, in 
 Boston, 1817-26. He held the presidency of Hamilton 
 College for two years, 1833-35, and gave diplomas to 39 
 graduates and honorary alumni, in two classes. President 
 Dwight died November 30, 1850, at the age of 67 years. 
 The fourth president, Rev. Dr. Joseph Penney, was 
 born in Ireland, August 12, 1793 ; was graduated from 
 Trinity College, Dublin, in 1813, and came to America in 
 1819 ; after successful pastorates in Rochester and North- 
 hampton, Mass., was elected to succeed President Dwight 
 in 1835, and resigned in 1839. He gave diplomas to 53 
 graduates and honorary alumni, in 3 classes. Dr. Penney 
 died in Rochester, March 22, 1860, at the age of 67 years. 
 The fifth president. Rev. Dr. Simeon North, was born 
 in Berlin, Conn., September 7, 1802 ; was graduated from 
 Yale College, with the valedictory, in 1825 ; was a tutor 
 in Yale, 1827-29; and Professor of Languages in Hamil- 
 ton College, 1829-39. His Inaugural Discourse was de- 
 livered in the Congregational Church, in Clinton, May 8, 
 1839. He held the presidency until 1857, and gave 
 diplomas to 661 graduates and honorary alumni, in 19 
 classes. Dr. North is still a member of the Board of 
 Trustees His connection with the College, as Professor, 
 President and Trustee, covers a period of fifty-two years. 
 The diplomas of 1858, to 49 graduates and honorary 
 alumni, were signed by Hon. Hiram Denio, one of the 
 Trustees, and announced by Professor Theodore W. 
 Dwight, who presided at the commencement exercises. 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 5 
 
 The sixth president Eev. Dr. Samuel Ware Fisher, 
 lA^as born in Morristown, N. J., April 5, 1814; was gradu- 
 ated from Yale College in 1835 ; was pastor of the Fourth 
 Presbyterian Church, in Albany, 1843-47; pastor of the 
 Second Presbyterian Church, in Cincinnati, 1817-58; 
 was Moderator of the New School General Assembly in 
 
 1857, and elected President of Hamilton College, July 6, 
 
 1858. His Inaugural Discourse was delivered in the 
 Stone Church, in Clinton, November 4, 1858, after the 
 Address of Induction by Hon. Horatio Seymour. 
 President Fisher resigned in July, 1866, after giving 
 diplomas to 306 graduates and ho'norary alumni, in eight 
 classes. He was installed pastor of the Westminster 
 Presbyterian Church, in Utica, November 15, 1867 ; re- 
 signed this pastorate January 13, 1871, and died in Cin- 
 cinnati, 0., January 18, 1874. 
 
 The seventh president, Eev. Dr. Samuel GriLMAN 
 Brown, son of President Francis Brown, of Dartmouth 
 College, was born in North Yarmouth, Me., January 4, 
 1813 ; was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1831 ; 
 traveled in Europe from 1838 to 1840 ; was Professor of 
 Oratory in Dartmouth College, 1840-63, and of Intellec- 
 tual Philosophy, 1863-67. He was elected to the presi- 
 dency of Hamilton College in 1866, and delivered his In- 
 augural Discourse in the Stone Church, in Clinton, July 
 17, 1867, after the Address of Induction by Hon. 
 Hiram Denio. President Brown's resignation took 
 effect after the commencement exercises of June 30, 1881. 
 During his presidency, diplomas were given to 775 gradu- 
 ates and honorary alumni, in fifteen classes. Dr. Brown 
 still retains his seat in the Board of Trustees. 
 
 The eighth president, Eev. Dr. Henry Darling, a 
 native of Eeading, Pa., was graduated from Amherst 
 College in 1842 ; was one year a student in Union 
 
6 Hamilton College. 
 
 Theological Seminary, and two years in Auburn Theo- 
 logical Seminary ; was pastor of the Presbyterian Church 
 in Hudson, 1848-53, of the Clinton Street Church in 
 Philadelphia, 1853-61, of the Fourth Presbyterian 
 Church in Albany, 1863-81, and Moderator of the Pres- 
 byterian General Assembly in May, 1881. Dr. DARLiNa 
 was elected to the presidency at a special meeting of the 
 Trustees, April 12, 1881. At the same meeting, Ex- 
 President Simeon North, Ex-President S. G-. Brown, 
 and Prof Edward North were appointed a Committee 
 of Arrangements for President Darling's Inauguration. 
 
 During the forenoon of Thursday, September 15, 1881, 
 the Trustees of the College held an adjourned meeting in 
 the Chapel of the Presbyterian Church in Clinton. In 
 the afternoon, the Inauguration of President Darling- 
 was solemnized before a large audience of students and 
 citizens, in the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 The Members of the College Choir who led in singing 
 the H3^mn of Welcome, were Seniors A. H. Evans, W. 
 C. Miner, E. L. Palmer, D. R. Rodger and L. C. 
 Smith; Juniors C. L. Bates, H. M. Love and C Gr. 
 McAdam; Sophomores J. P. Morrow and C. M. Paine. 
 The Organist was Senior F. A. Spencer, Jr. 
 
 The presence of the following officers, alumni and 
 friends of the College added to the interest of the 
 occasion : 
 
 Ex-President Simeon North, College Hill ; Ex-Presi- 
 dent S. G. Brown, Utica ; Rev. Dr. S. H. Cridley, Water 
 loo; Dr. Charles Aver\^, Clinton; Hon. William J. 
 Bacon, Utica; William D. Walcott, New York Mills 
 Dr. Oren Root, College Hill; Thomas W. Seward, Utica 
 Rev. Dr. Benjamin W. Dwight, Clinton; Charles C 
 Kingsley, Utica ; Hon. Theodore W. Dwight, New York 
 Eev. Dr. W. E. Knox, Ehmra; Rev. Dr. N. W. Goertne^, 
 Hamilton College; Rev. \)\\ L. M. Miller^ Ogdensburg 
 Publius V. Rogers, Utica; Gen. S. S. Ellsworth, Penn 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 7 
 
 Yan ; Eev. Dr. Anson J. Upson, Aubarn Theological 
 Seminary; Grilbert MoUison, Oswego; Hon. John N. 
 Hungerford, Corning; Hon. Ellis H. Roberts, Utica; 
 Rev. Eurotas P. Hastings, Jaffna College, Ceylon ; Hon. 
 Charles McKinney, Binghamton; Arnon G. Williams, 
 Westmoreland ; Rev. Richard Gr. Keyes, Watertown ; 
 Rev. Dr. Selden Haynes, Rome; Dr. John C. Gallup, 
 Houghton Seminary; Col. J. H. Wells, New York; Rev. 
 A. M. Stowe, Canandaigua ; Prof. Edward ISTorth, Hamil- 
 ton College ; Rev. Dr. James H. Taylor, Rome ; Rev. Dr. 
 Thomas B. Hudson, Clinton ; Daniel Waterman, Utica ; 
 Rev. Dr. W. A. Bartlett, Indianapolis, Ind. ; Hon. Milton H. 
 Merwin, Utica; Rev. F. A. Spencer, Clinton; Rev. Dr. 
 Thomas J. Brown, Utica; Rev. H. H. Peabody, Rome; 
 Prof. A. McMillan, Utica; Prof. Ambrose P. Kelsey, 
 Hamilton College ; James McKinney and James Rodgers^ 
 Albany ; Rev. E. H. Payson, Oneida ; Richard Schroep- 
 pel, Utica; Prof. Oren Root, Jr., Hamilton College; Rev. 
 Dr. Willis J. Beecher, Auburn Theological Seminary; 
 Dr. H. F. Porter, New York Mills; Dr. Joseph Sei- 
 both and Hon. H. J. Cookinham, Utica; H. P. Willard, 
 Boonville ; Horace P. Bigelow, Waterville; Dr. E. B. 
 Wicks, Clinton; Rev. Henry M. Dodd, Dexter; Prof. 
 John W. Mears, Hamilton College ; Chester Huntington, 
 New York ; Prof. A. A. Chester and Prof A. G. Hop- 
 kins, Hamilton College; Rev. Isaac 0. Best, Clinton 
 Grammar School ; Benoni Butler, Timothy Parker, M. 
 H. Thompson and James M. Howe, Utica; Andrew L. 
 Williams and Elliott S. Williams, Clinton ; Re7. Charles 
 F. Janes, Yerona ; Prof Henry A. Frink, Hamilton Col- 
 lege; Francis M. Burdick, Utica; Frederick E.Cleve- 
 land, New York ; Prof A. G. Benedict, Houghton Sem- 
 inary; J. Calder, New York Mills; Rev. J. F. Brodie, 
 New York; James S. Sherman, New Hartford; W. S. 
 Carter and P. L, Chester, Auburn Theological Seminary; 
 Frank E. Dwight, Robert S. Rudd and F. W. Joslyn, 
 New York; Gilbert Reid and M. M. Curtis, Union Theo- 
 logical Seminary ; Myron E. Carmer, Dryden ; Charles 
 A. Borst, E. C. Dayton and Frank S. Williams, Clinton; 
 John Otto, Jr., Buffalo, and many others. 
 
OEDER OF EXERCISES. 
 
 I. Music, 
 
 By the Utica Philhakmonic Orchestra. 
 
 II. Selections from the Scriptures, 
 
 By Eev. SAMUEL H. GRIDLEY, D. D. 
 
 III. Prayer, 
 
 By Rev. SAMUEL G. BROWN, D. D., LL. D. 
 
 IV. Music, 
 
 By the Utica Philharmonic Orchestra, 
 
 V. Address of Induction, 
 
 By Hon. WILLIAM J. BACON, LL. D. 
 
 VI. Inaugural Discourse, 
 
 By President HENRY DARLING, D. D., LL. D. 
 
 VII. Hymn of Welcome, 
 
 By the Undergraduates of the College. 
 
 VIII. Address of Fellowship, 
 
 By Rey. ANSON J. UPSON, D. D., LL. D., and ; 
 Rev. S. IREN.EUS PRIME. D. D. 
 
 IX. Benediction, 
 
 By Rev. L. MERRILL MILLER, D. D. 
 
 X. Music. 
 
HYMN OF WELCOME. 
 
 Tune — Pakk Street. 
 
 I. 
 
 With grace to choose the Bible's creed, 
 And folio vr it in word and deed, 
 Straight on thro' good report and ill, 
 God bless our Mother on the Hill. 
 
 II. 
 
 To be a shield when armies fail, 
 A beacon light when storms assail. 
 Thro' days of darkness hoping still, 
 God help our Mother on the Hill. 
 
 III. 
 
 With sons devout, in battle brave 
 To serve the Church, our land to save. 
 With ranks that wait their Leader's will, 
 God bless our Mother on the Hill. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Then welcome friends with helping hands, 
 And welcome lore from distant lands ; 
 Thrice welcome Leader, toil and drill. 
 With Blessed Mother on the Hill. 
 
HON. AYILLIAM J. BACON'S ADDRESS. 
 
 The duty assigned to me in the services of this day, is- 
 one from which I might well have asked to be excused. 
 It fell much more naturally and appropriately to other 
 hands, and belonged, by an original designation, the pro- 
 priety of which was most readily recognized, to the chair- 
 man of the Board of Trustees, that highly honored and 
 gifted man, that profound jurist, and wise and able coun- 
 selor of the board, Hon. Henry A. Foster. Although he 
 has measured more than four score years, he still moves- 
 among us with physical powers but moderately if at all 
 impaired, and in the full, strength of his imperial intel- 
 lect. How great a satisfaction it would have been to us- 
 all to have listened to his address of induction and his 
 hearty words of welcome to our incoming President, it 
 would be quite superfluous for me to say. It grieves me 
 to add that a painful domestic bereavement, in which we 
 all deeply sympathize, as we do with our associate and 
 brother, Dr. Kendall, in the sad calamity which has be- 
 fallen him in the sudden and unexpected loss of his 
 gifted son, deprives us this day I fear of the pleasure of 
 welcoming the presence of either at this important and 
 interesting event in the history of our college. 
 
 May He whose office especially and peculiarly it is, to 
 minister to the afflicted and pour the oil of joy into 
 wounded hearts, be to each of them a Son of consolation, 
 and in an emphatic sense "the shadow of a great rock in 
 a weary land." 
 
 We have assembled this day, my friends and fellow- 
 citizens, to induct into his high and responsible office, the 
 eighth President of Hamilton College. It is an occasion 
 of deep interest to all her sons here or elsewhere, and to 
 this community an event of no ordinary importance. 
 We meet too under circumstances of unusual interest 
 and solemnity. It was pertinently remarked by Presi- 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. ■ 11 
 
 dent Fisher in the admirable address delivered by him at 
 the jubilee celebration in 1862, that the time of the 
 founding of our college was one most memorable in his- 
 tory. It was in 1812, after the great Kevolution had 
 passed which established us as a nation and started us 
 forth on our great mission as a free and united republic, 
 but still "it was amidst the smoke and thunder of war 
 with one of the mightiest of the European powers, that 
 the foundations of the college were laid." 
 
 How deeply momentous and profoundly solemn is this 
 moment in which we are standing here. For many weary 
 days and weeks we have been almost breathlessly waiting 
 beneath the deep shadow of impending death, and the 
 whole nation has been watching with an intensity of in- 
 terest that language can not describe, by the bedside of 
 the illustrious sufferer, who with fortitude unequaled and 
 unapproached save by the one who has also stood by his 
 side, the equally brave, self-sustained and faithful wife^ 
 who with a breaking heart has worn a cheerful face, has 
 ibeen battling for life. From that bed of pain what les- 
 sons of courage, confidence and faith have been sent forth 
 to all the people of this land. If he conquers in this 
 strife, as Grod grant he may, what a chorus of grateful 
 praise and thanksgiving will go up to heaven from the 
 heart of the whole united nation."^ 
 
 * Witliin four days after the utterance of the above sentiment, it 
 pleased God by a sudden and at the moment a most unexpected 
 stroke, before which we are dumb, and which it is not our province 
 to question or interpret, to remove President Garfield from the 
 scene of his earthly activities to the repose of the grave. Let us not 
 murmur nor vainly ask why was this, but submit all to that ordering 
 of human affairs which only infinite knowledge can comprehend, 
 and infinite wisdom and goodness justify. 
 
 I desire, however, in brief words, to express my belief that few 
 greater, wiser or better men have ever occupied the high seats of 
 power in our country. He came to the chief magistracy more fully 
 equipped for its duties than any of his predecessors, with possibly 
 a single exception. As a parliamentary debater I think lie had no 
 man who was his equal in either House of Congress. It was my 
 ^ood fortune to serve with him during the three sessions of the 4oth 
 Congress, and I had good opportunities for comparing him with the 
 
12 - Hamilton College. 
 
 Neither the necessities nor the proprieties of this occa- 
 sion demand from rae any discussion of the principles of 
 that higher education which it has been the aim of the 
 authorities of this institution to introduce as an important 
 and essential part of its curriculum. This theme has 
 been largely and well discussed elsewhere, and doubtless 
 will be again ; nor yet is it my province to dwell upon 
 what may be deemed the new departure that is contem- 
 plated, and from which so much has been promised and 
 so much is expected. It has been intimated to me by 
 one whose slightest suggestion has to me almost the force 
 of authoritative law, that as this address of induction has 
 now for the first time in our history fallen to the lot of 
 an alumnus of the college, and one too who had a per- 
 sonal acquaintance with each of the preceding seven 
 presidents of Hamilton, "why," to use his own words, 
 "should not that address include sketches of those seven 
 presidents from Dr. Backus downward ?" 
 
 Why not, indeed? For several reasons, any one of 
 which might well answer. In the first place, grateful as 
 the theme might be, neither the limited time granted to 
 me, nor the material just now at hand are sufficient for 
 the purpose. In the second place, that specific work was 
 most fully and ably done by Dr. Fisher, in the admirable 
 
 most noted public men of tlie day. In largeness and breadth of cul- 
 ture, in clearness of discrimination, in accurate conception of princi- 
 ples and statement of facts, and in occasional and indeed not 
 infrequent electric bursts of eloquence, lie bad neither peer nor 
 rival. At times his magnificent periods would almost seem to shake 
 the dome of the Capitol, approaching, if indeed he did not rival the 
 Athenian orator when he "fulmined over Greece," and shook the 
 throne of Philip. 
 
 In his personal bearing he was most winning, and more .magnetic 
 perhaps than any public man of our times, save Henry Clay. No 
 man ever came within the circle of his personal influence and attrac- 
 tion, without being drawn to him " with cords of love and the bands 
 of a man," and I may be pardoned for saying that it will ever be to 
 me a proud and consoling reflection that even for a brief season I 
 enjoyed his friendship and shared his confidence. Alas, that he was 
 compelled to write, in the inexpressibly sad and perhaps prophetic 
 words his failing hand and fainting heart were able to trace, " Stran- 
 gulatus pro Eepublica." 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 13 
 
 jubilee discourse of 1862, to which I have already 
 alluded ; and in the third place the doctrine of the "per- 
 severance of the saints," is not, I fear, so fully established 
 in all your minds as to enable your patience to hold out 
 fairly to the end. I must forego this task, and yet I may 
 by your indulgence, perhaps, be allowed to select from 
 the honored list the first two and the last two presidents 
 for a brief and imperfect commemoration. 
 
 With regard to President Backus, it should perhaps be 
 said his fame was with me for the most part traditional, 
 for I was too young at the time of his accession to office 
 to have a personal acquaintance with him, and yet it was 
 my good fortune as a boy to listen .to some three or four 
 of those massive discourses by which he attracted the 
 attention not only, but roused and kindled the heart of 
 Central New York. He was a man of large and rugged 
 frame, and his style of thought and expression was some- 
 what in harmony with his physical presence. There 
 might be applied to him perhaps without much exaggera- 
 tion the phrase by which the Irish orator characterized 
 the elder Pitt, "Original and unaccommodating, the fea- 
 tures of his character had the hardihood of antiquity." 
 He never suppressed an opinion that he honestly enter- 
 tained for fear of awakening a prejudice, nor held back a 
 truth lest it might offend an esthetic taste. Truth was to 
 him " the immediate jewel of the soul," and he held it 
 above all price and subject to no politic accommodation. 
 All this, however, was but the outside shell, rough and 
 rus^cfed to the sisrht, but it inclosed a heart as tender and 
 sympathetic as a child. Masterly and powerful as he was 
 in discourse, his nature was strongly and deeply emo- 
 tional, and he rarely if ever closed the most energetic and 
 impressive sermon without in its final passages breaking 
 out into passionate appeals and tender implorations, and 
 almost without exception manifesting the depth of his 
 emotion, and the yearning strengtk of his love by a 
 copious flow of tears. 
 
 In addition to these traits, it should be said of 
 President Backus that he was a man of quick apprehen- 
 sion and a keen sense of humor, and I am inclined to 
 
14 Hamilton College. 
 
 think that the best part of the capital of our college for 
 wit is founded upon his lively sallies, his apt retorts, and 
 his cutting, although not ill-natared, sarcasms. They are 
 traditional in our college, and form a repertory upon 
 which the successive generations of students have been 
 perpetually drawing for some of their best and brightest 
 things. 
 
 President Davis came to our college as the successor of 
 Backus with a high reputation both as a scholar and a 
 preacher. This is clearly evidenced by the fact that he 
 was simultaneously elected to the presidency of Yale and 
 of Hamilton. Pie declined the former and accepted the 
 latter, and held the office for the long term of 16 years. 
 He saw some stormy days, and passed through some try- 
 ing scenes, but I truly believe that he was throughout 
 most conscientious and sincere, and never doubted that 
 he was acting in the line of duty. In manner he was 
 most courteous and dignified, and always preserved a 
 most even and equable temper. I ought to remember 
 him, as I do with veneration not only, but with gratitude, 
 for to my few merits he was very kind, to my manifold 
 failures and errors he was very blind, or winked so hard 
 that he either did not or affected not to see them, and so 
 I got on smoothly and serenely over what otherwise 
 might have been a somewhat rough and even tempestuous 
 sea. 
 
 *' Peace to the memory of a man of worth, 
 A raan of letters and of manners too," 
 
 Of the remaining list of presidents, until we reach the 
 last two in the line, I propose for the reasons I have 
 already suggested, to make no remark but this, that 
 while all the others preceding and following him save one, 
 have gone to the land of silence, there yet remains with 
 us of that goodly company one venerable form, the light 
 of whose beneficent countenance and the benefit of whose 
 large experience are still enjoyed by the Board of Trustees. 
 Long may that light continue to shine, and that valued 
 counsel be given. Of him I can say no better or worthier 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. , 15 
 
 word than to repeat the felicitous quotation made by 
 President Fisher from the Latin classic, 
 
 Serus in ccdum redeas, diuque 
 Laetus inter sis nobis. 
 
 What I have now to say of the remaining two 
 presidents, mast be compressed into the briefest space. 
 Of Dr. Fisher I had occasion to speak at some length in the 
 commemorative discourse delivered soon after his la- 
 mented death, and I have no desire to change or qualify at 
 all the estimate X then made of him as a man, a minister 
 of the word, and as the presiding officer of our college. 
 As a preacher he certainly stood in the front rank of 
 American divines; he had a strong and steady purpose^ 
 and no small degree of executive ability. It may be 
 that in matters of college discipline, he was a little too 
 much of a martinet, and carried inquisition into minor 
 offenses, involving no moral turpitude to an unwise 
 extent, for although I may err in judgment in this 
 regard, I still believe that in college government as in 
 some other institutions, there are some things that may 
 not either be seen, or if seen, be judiciously overlooked. 
 But however this may have been, there can be no 
 diversity of opinion in respect to the value and import- 
 ance of the work accomplished by Dr. Fisher for the 
 college outside its walls. In this enterprise he was untir- 
 ing in labor and unflagging in zeal. lie made the name 
 of Hamilton widely known and honored, and a large debt 
 of gratitude will ever be due to tha*t man of blessed 
 memory who gave himself to that most beneficent and 
 most needful work. 
 
 Concerning the last in the line preceding him whom 
 we this day induct into office, I realize distinctly the 
 presence in which I speak, and that will prevent me from 
 saying much that my heart would prompt and my voice 
 willingly utter. But even that presence will not restrain 
 me from declaring my unqualified conviction that in high 
 and finished culture, in purity of purpose and conscien- 
 tious discharge of duty, in harmonious relationship with 
 
16 , Hamilton College. 
 
 those more immediately associated with him in the col- 
 lege government ; above all in the courteous dem_eanor 
 of the true gentleman, and the entire self-control and the 
 Christ-like spirit exhibited by him in scenes of more than 
 common trial and difficulty, he was not excelled, if indeed 
 he was equaled by any of his predecessors. 
 
 If now there shall be united in harmonious combina- 
 tion in the coming man, the varied gifts and distinguish- 
 ing characteristics of these two illustrious and immediate 
 forerunners, the outcome will be that perfect president we 
 all have been looking for, and whom we now hail as the 
 new incumbent of this exalted trust. 
 
 President Darling, a high and noble work is before 
 you. An enlarged, a liberal, a Christian education is not 
 a new thing in the history of o*ur college, nor is it now 
 for the first time to be inaugurated here. The founda- 
 tions of this institution were laid by the faithful mission- 
 ary Kirkland, and his inspiration was the oft-repeated 
 prayer that its establishment might " under the smiles of 
 the God of wisdom prove an eminent means of diffusing 
 useful knowledge, enlarging the bounds of human happi- 
 ness, and aiding the reign of virtue and the kingdom of 
 the blessed Eedeemer." 
 
 These great ends have never been lost sight of in all 
 the nearly seventy years of our history. Most emphati- 
 cally was the last great lesson emphasized by President 
 Fisher in his inaugural discourse, and faithfully has it 
 been carried out by his successor in office. May yours 
 be the happy mission of following these illustrious prece- 
 dents, and yours the high privilege in the coming years 
 to send forth from this seat of science, learning and relig- 
 ion, bands of cultivated and ingenuous youth who in 
 their daily lives shall illustrate and exemplify the lessons 
 they shall here have learned, by exhibiting the full and 
 matured fruits of a ripe scholarship, a highly cultured 
 intellect, a noble manliness, a warm Christian heart, and 
 an earnest and active Christian faith. 
 
 Representing, as I do, the Board of Trustees, I hesitate 
 not to pledge to you their full and hearty support in 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 17 
 
 every well directed effort to enlarge the influence and 
 enhance the reputation of our college, and as their organ 
 I now place in your hands the Charter, the Key and the 
 Seal of this Institution. They constitute your investiture 
 and are the insignia of your authority and power. The 
 Charter is the fundamental law which governs us all, the 
 Key in an emblematic sense is to be employed in opening 
 that temple of knowledge and wisdom into which you 
 are to invite and conduct its youthful votaries, and with 
 the Seal you are to impress upon mind and soul imperish- 
 able lessons and undying records. 
 
 May all that we hope and you anticipate be fully and 
 successfully achieved, and may you receive, in the dis- 
 charge of your high functions, the abundant and approv- 
 ing smile of that " God of wisdom," whose presence and 
 power the sainted Kirkland so ardently invoked. 
 
 Accepting the Insignia of Office. 
 
 At the conclusion of Judge Bacon's address, after 
 receiving the Charter, Seal and Keys of the College^ 
 President Dakling addressing the speaker, trustees and 
 faculty, said that he accepted with diffidence and distrust 
 from the representative of the board of trustees, the 
 insignia of his office as president of Hamilton College. 
 He realized as clearly as any one that the presidency of 
 a college. like Hamilton was no sinecure. He had been 
 emboldened to assume the task by the urgent wishes and 
 earnest encouragement of life-long friends, and with the 
 hope that it was the will of the Master. He had no 
 promises to make on entering upon his duties, but pledged 
 his best efforts and energies to the sacred trust that had 
 been imposed upon him. He had heard with pleasure 
 the well deserved and kindly references to his distin- 
 guished predecessor. President Brown, and felicitated 
 himself that his future home would not be so far distant 
 from College Hill that he could not often avail himself 
 of the valuable advice that his successful experience had 
 so well fitted him to give. 
 
DR. DARLING'S IMUGURAL. 
 
 Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees: 
 
 The circumstances under which I address you, a min- 
 ister of Christ exchanging the pastoral office for the 
 presidency of a literary institution, not only suggest but 
 almost define the subject of my discourse; Culture and 
 Heligion, their relative place and sphere in the education 
 of the American College. 
 
 And this theme, " the subject of the day," as it has 
 very appropriately been called, is commended upon this 
 occasion to our consideration, as well by the purposes of 
 the establishment of this institution, as by the circum- 
 stances of our present assembly. " It is my earnest wish," 
 said the Christian missionary by whom this college was 
 founded, "that it may prove an eminent means of diffus- 
 ing useful knowledge, enlarging the bounds of human 
 happiness, and aiding the reign of virtue and the kingdom 
 of the blessed Eedeemer." I proceed, therefore, at once 
 to the discussion of the theme that I have already 
 announced, and which has, for the two reasons just men- 
 tioned, a special claim on this occasion upon our atten- 
 tion. 
 
 Gibbon, in his " History of the Decline and Fall of the 
 Eoman Empire," says that when Julian sought'so deter- 
 minately to re-establish paganism as the religion of the 
 world, among other expedients to this end, he issued an 
 ■edict prohibiting Christians from teaching the arts of 
 grammar and rhetoric."^ The fact is exceedingly suggest- 
 ive. It clearly implies, not only that at that time 
 Christians occupied to some extent these offices, but also 
 that when thus elected by the magistrates, they did not 
 hesitate, together with grammar and rhetoric, to teach the 
 great facts and doctrines of their religious faith. And the 
 
 *Milinan's Gibbon, vol. II, page 442. 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 19 
 
 text of the edict confirms this supposition. " Those who 
 refuse to adore the gods of Homer and Demosthenes let 
 them be content," said the emperor, "with expounding 
 Luke and Matthew in the church of the Galileans."* 
 And this union, in education, of intellectual culture and 
 religion — a union which it was the special purpose of this 
 edict of Julian to break np — was one of the marked 
 characteristics of the primitive church. The early Chris- 
 tians, though Celsus says that "they were uneducated 
 and boorish men ; men who could not open their mouth 
 before the learned," aspired after a scientific exposition of 
 their faith, and a Christian science. And such schools as 
 that in Alexandria under Pantaenus, and Clement, and 
 Origen, established certainly as early as the middle of the 
 second century, became as JN'eander says, "nurseries of 
 learned and pious men, the Alma Mater of those great 
 and good men who were the lights of the early church."f 
 
 But these two influences, thus largely united in the 
 primitive age of Christianity, there have been times in 
 the subsequent history of our race, when society has, for 
 substance, repeated that edict of Julian, and when, if 
 " Christians were not prohibited from teaching the arts of 
 grammar and rhetoric," they were prohibited from teach- 
 ing them as Christians, that is, from uniting with intel- 
 lectual culture the great facts and doctrines of our holy 
 religion. 
 
 Such an epoch was that known as the revival of letters 
 in the fifteenth century. When the fall of Constantinople 
 had sent crowds of Grreek exiles into Italy, and from 
 thence Creek culture had poured like a quickening flood 
 strong and deep over all Europe, " men became so intoxi- 
 cated," as Principal Shairp says, " with the new learning 
 as to imagine that in it alone they found an all sufficient 
 portion, and to recoil not only from the outworn paths of 
 of scholasticism3 but also of Christianity. "J Such an 
 epoch was confessedly the larger part of the last century. 
 
 * Epistles of Julian, 42. 
 
 f Neander's Church History, vol. I, page 539J 
 
 X Culture and Religion, page 48. 
 
20 Hamilton College. 
 
 The sense-philosophy, which then prevailed had a direct 
 tendency to divorce religion from culture ; and though 
 this tendency was largely arrested by those idealistic 
 systems of philosophy which followed, it will, I suppose, 
 be conceded that in this regard our age is rapidly going 
 back to that of the preceding century. 
 
 And this brings me in the development of my theme, 
 " Culture and Eeligion, their relative place and sphere in^ 
 the education of the American College," to my first 
 position. 
 
 Men demand, in our day of these two things, an entire 
 separation. They affirm that the education of the college 
 should be wholly secular, that its only aim should be the 
 educing or drawing forth of all that is intellectually 
 potential in man. And here is a philosophical argument, 
 which is often used to confirm this position. Education 
 has to do only with the logical and scientific faculty. Its 
 purpose is to teach men to know. Bat these are not the 
 faculties which receive spiritual truth. The great doc- 
 trines of the Bible " can not be held in the grip of the 
 logical vice." It is spiritual sense that apprehends them. 
 They are never so much known as helieved. 
 
 And this philosophical argument is supposed to be 
 greatly strengthened by a historical argument. Culture 
 and religion have both attained the highest fruition in 
 this world, separate and apart from each other. Greece 
 was the culmination of the world's culture, and that cul- 
 ture was almost entirely apart from religion. Judea was 
 the fountain head of the world's religion, and religion so 
 long as it remained there, knew very little, comparatively, 
 of culture. Indeed Hellenists and Hebraists are in our 
 day frequently used as the synonyms of culturists and 
 religionists. And to this two facts should be added, 
 which have oftentimes, on this subject, the potency of the- 
 strongest argument. The education which the state 
 gives, is in this country almost secular. It has in it no 
 other element than that of culture; and as from its 
 originally primary character, it is continually aspiring ta 
 become more and more closelv assimilated to that which 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 21 
 
 iias heretofore been regarded as the distinctive province of 
 the college, so does it tend very naturally to impart to 
 that higher education its own secular! ty. Men reason 
 from the lower to the higher; from a part to the whole ; 
 from what the state does to what the church or private 
 beneficence should do. 
 
 And then, as a matter of fact, how often in education, 
 is it not culture and religion which are united, but cul- 
 ture and a narrow, hitter^ sectarianism, which under the 
 garb and name of religion, has in it nothing of its spirit. 
 Indeed when men talk of culture and religion as essen- 
 tial elements of education, or when they protest against 
 an education, which excluding Christianity is purely sec- 
 ular, how often does the mind at once image to itself the 
 school, or college, or university in which men are taught 
 not our great common Christianity, but the mere shibbo- 
 leth of a sect. 
 
 But do these arguments establish the position of the 
 secularist in education, and may we at once dismiss our 
 theme by affirming that culture and religion are two 
 things which in the college have to each other no rela- 
 tions ? 
 
 In the definitions which are ordinarily given of cul- 
 ture, nothing is more common than to make it synony- 
 mous with perfection. "Culture," says Matthew Arnold, 
 " is the harmonious expansion of all the powers which 
 make the beauty and worth of human nature ;" "it is the 
 growth and predominence of our humanity proper as dis- 
 tinguished from our animality ;" "it is not a having and 
 a resting, but a growing and becoming."* 
 
 But all such definitions of culture, do they not include 
 religion, and without it are they not ail simply impossi- 
 ble? Can there be perfection, completeness, the harmo- 
 nious expansion of all the powers of human nature, in 
 an education which ignores man's relations to Cod, and 
 the duties which grow out of those relations? That 
 there is a religious side to our humanity, an impulse in 
 
 * Culture and Anarcliy, page 13. 
 
22 Hamilton College. 
 
 every heart to seek God, and a capacity to attain both to- 
 his knowledge and love, no student of the human mind 
 can deny. And this is not a mere adjunct of man's na- 
 ture. It is his own permanent^ if not highest self. The 
 world with which science deals is not the whole world of 
 existence, nor is it of all truth that the logical or scien- 
 tific faculty can take cognizance. "No ; there is a world 
 outside!^ or more properly speaking inside, of the merely 
 phenomenal ; and there is a spiritual faculty by which in 
 that world truth may be apprehended." Every fact also 
 related on one side to sensation is related on the other ta 
 morals, and " the game of thought," as Emerson expresses 
 it, "is at the appearance of one of these two sides to find 
 the other."* To what verdict then can we come with 
 regard to that man whose heart and conscience and spir- 
 itual aspirations are allowed to go for nothing, but that 
 he is half a man, that he is developed only on one side of 
 his nature. "Learning without Grod," says Milton, 
 ^'maketh a distorted mind." 
 
 But to observe more fully the incompleteness of all 
 culture that is separate and apart from religion, let us, at 
 this point in our discussion, very carefully notice its in- 
 ability to impart to character very many of the highest 
 and noblest qualities of the human soul. Thus, intellec- 
 tual culture without careful moral training can not correct 
 the evils of the heart. It can not interpose any efiicient 
 obstacle against vice. It is powerless to secure virtue. 
 Indeed in many cases its practical effect is the very oppo- 
 site of this. It is an actual training for crime. It stimu- 
 lates the evil passions of our nature. It makes men 
 wicked by rule. It reduces vice to a system. It sub- 
 jects the clear head and the strong arm to the impulses of 
 the bad heart. 
 
 Cicero, whose moral perceptions seem to have been 
 more delicate and more highly cultivated than any other 
 writer of the pagan world, saw this fact, and in the third 
 book of his treatise, " De Natura Deorum," presents us 
 
 * Emerson's Prose Works, vol. II, page 81. 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 23 
 
 in its proof with an elaborate argument. "What de- 
 bauchery," is his language, " what avarice, what crime 
 amongst men, is there which does not owe its birth to 
 thought and reflection^ that is to reason. As the old 
 woman wished, 
 
 That to the fir which on Mount Pelion grew, 
 The axe had ne'er been laid ; 
 
 SO we should wish that the gods had never bestowed this-- 
 abilitj on man, the abuse of which is so general that the 
 small number of those who make good use of it, are 
 often oppressed by those who make a bad use of it, so 
 that it seems to be given rather to help vice than to pro- 
 mote virtue amongst us."* And Aristotle afl&rms the 
 same truth : " In what concerns virtue, three things are 
 necessary, knowledge, deliberate will, and perseverance ; 
 but whereas the two last are all-important, the first,, 
 knowledge, is a matter of little moment. "f And who 
 can question the truthfulness of these words of heathen 
 sages ? To secure purity in the life, the most potent in- 
 strumentality is to bring Grod in close contact with the 
 soul. "Pious awe of the great unknown," says Carlyle^ 
 "makes a sacred canopy under which all virtues grow. "J 
 Yice is mean, groveling, earthly. It is a degradation of 
 the immortal spirit, and for the soul to feel its relation- 
 ship to God is man's greatest security against its commis- 
 sion. The whole creation around us God's temple, and 
 every emotion of the mind an act of worship, the heart 
 would be secure from the assaults of the tempter. 
 
 And conspicuous examples in history of the truth of 
 this remark can be easily given. I have already had oc- 
 casion, in this discussion, to speak of Greece as the cul- 
 mination of the world's culture, and as to the extent of 
 that culture I suppose that we are in very little peril of 
 exaggeration. Galton in his work on hereditary genius — 
 
 . *De Natura Deorum, book III, 28-31. 
 f Quoted in Biblica Sacra, vol. I, page 403. 
 X Address as Rector of Edinburgh University. 
 
24 Hamilton College. 
 
 as quoted by Joseph Cook — asserts that " the intellectual 
 culture of Attica in the fifth century before Christ, a 
 desolate stretch of pine barrens, was as much higher 
 than that of the loftiest race on the globe to-day as the 
 ability of that proudest race is higher than that of the 
 African."* Eufus Choate, in speaking of the orations of 
 Demosthenes, says "that there is not an audience in the 
 United States, except the judges and lawyers of the 
 Supreme Court, that could bear such condensation of 
 matter, and that the most powerful impact of iron and 
 brass can not strike out a single stone from the rhetorical 
 monument that -Demosthenes thus raised for himself" 
 And that distinguished lecturer alread}" referred to asserts 
 . " that one in 5,000 of the mature men of Athens were in 
 such a sense distinguished that to this hour we are proud 
 to make them our teachers in philosophy, oratory, poetry 
 and art."f Moreover, the common people, students of 
 philosophy, and accomplished critics in art, " smiths, 
 tanners, cobblers," as Xenophon describes them, gathered 
 together to hear the discussions of philosophy, and to 
 pronounce their verdict upon the- highest works of art 
 ever submitted to any age; when did our humanity ever 
 attain to so refined and exalted a culture? 
 
 But unparalleled in its perfection, as was all this intel- 
 lectual development of Greece, every one knows that it 
 left the soul of that people dead. Grecian culture 
 showed not the slightest power to purify the life. It 
 brought forth no virtue ; it checked no vice. At the 
 very acme of Athenian culture, the evidence of Athenian 
 corruption was overwhelming and appalling. The very 
 center of the world's art and philosophy was the very 
 center of its depravity. " Virtue is teachable," was the 
 famous motto of Socrates, and in illustrating and enforc- 
 ing it through the streets and in the workshops of 
 Athens, he spent more than thirty years; but from all 
 these efforts we have no evidence that the slightest moral 
 improvement followed. In one of Plato's dialogues, an 
 
 *■ ' ■ ' — — ~~ — ~— — — • 
 
 * Heredity, page 16. f Heredity, page 16. 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 25 
 
 intimate friend and pupil of Socrates extolling his master 
 in a eulogy which has been called an apotheosis, declares 
 as a matter equally of wonder and admiration that 
 Socrates alone, one single man in all Athens, was not 
 guilty of a vice too revolting to be named."* 
 
 Indeed the whole atmosphere of Athens was sur- 
 charged with a moral pestilence, and where culture was 
 most splendid, vice was most hideous. 
 
 And the same is true of disinterestedness or unselfish- 
 ness in character. No Godless culture can by any 
 possibility engender it. 
 
 It has well been said of continual self-consciousness 
 that it is fatal to high character; that the man who is self- 
 contained, and never embraces in his desires and purposes 
 any good, but that which centers in himself, is the very 
 lowest type of our humanity ; and that there is no truer 
 sign of any man's advancement than that he is growing in 
 forgetfulness of self, and in the reaching out of thought 
 and endeavor after others. This truth is most impress- 
 ively taught in the sacred scriptures. Abounding in 
 such commands as, '' thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy- 
 self," "as we have therefore opportunity let us do good 
 unto all men," "look not every man on his own things, 
 but every man on the things of others," the argument by 
 which inspiration enforces these commands is always the 
 God-like and Christ-like character that is thus formed. 
 
 But certainly this desire and effort for the good of 
 others is not natural to our humanity. We have no 
 inborn propensity for such disinterestedness. Individual- 
 ism is with human nature so strong that " every man for 
 himself" is very apt to express the practical aim of all. 
 What discipline then can overcome this native propensity 
 and give to character this beautiful adornment? That 
 this is often included in the definitions which are given of 
 culture I know. Matthew Arnold does this. Culture 
 includes, in his language, "these two things, the scientific 
 passion for pure knowledge, and the moral and social pas- 
 
 * Seel ye in lectures to educated Hindus, page 18. 
 
26 Hamilton College. 
 
 sion for doing good ; " and in quoting Montesquieu as^ 
 saying that the end of culture is to render an intelligent 
 being yet more intelligent; the English professor adds^ 
 in the words of Bishop Wilson, and " to make reason and 
 the will of God prevail.""^ 
 
 And the same is true of Prof. Huxley, in his '"chess 
 playing theory," as it has been called, of culture. The 
 liberally educated man, as described by him, has among 
 other things, " learned to love all beauty, whether of 
 nature or art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as 
 himself." 
 
 But is it possible for culture, confining that word to the 
 impulse in man to seek his own highest perfection, to 
 beget in any human soul this spirit of disinterestedness ? 
 Can men be effectually taught^ not to look on their own 
 things, but also on the things of others ? Can they be 
 taken out of self, as a center, by the simple consideration 
 of the fact that to be thus self-centered is unlovely, and 
 does not conduce to man's highest happiness even in this 
 world? It is impossible. Culture enlightens self, but never 
 causes in any man the dying of self It takes the whole 
 weight of Christian motive, to carry man out of and 
 beyond himself, and to place him in that new center of 
 nature and destiny to which all our humanity stand 
 equally related. 
 
 Indeed, culture that ignores religion, is very apt to 
 become a principle of exclusion and isolation. A godless 
 education fosters pride and personal esteem. It creates 
 distinctions in society. It is a devisive quality. It begets 
 self-worship. " Behold that head," said the cultured 
 Theodore Parker, as from his dying bed in Florence, he 
 saw the marble bust of himself, which had just been 
 completed by a distinguished Italian sculptor, "behold 
 that head ; what achievements in literature and philoso- 
 phy could it not accomplish." " Unto me who am the 
 least of all saints," was the exclaim of the cultured, but 
 also devout and pious Paul, " is this grace given that I 
 
 * Culture and Anarchy, page 19. 
 
Inauguration of President Darling, 2T 
 
 should preach among the Gentiles unsearchable riches of 
 Christ." And such is in all cases the contrast between 
 culture without, and culture with religion. 
 
 And it is for this reason that Christianity and philan- 
 thropy have historically always gone along in the world 
 hand in hand. There is no such thing as an undevout 
 beneficence. No wave of sympathy ever rolls in upon the 
 stricken hearts of men which flows not first to the 
 majestic on high, and thence refluent earthward. The 
 life hidden with Grod is the life which diffuses blessings 
 among men. Love to God is the parent of love 
 to men. It is the fountain from whence it flows. 
 "Like unto it" {ofioia) is what Christ says of the relations 
 of the second commandment to the first, and by that 
 word our dear Lord meant to affirm not that the second 
 commandment is simply of equal authority and dignity 
 with the first, but as Bishop Bloomfield says, the second 
 "springs out of the first and is indissolubly connected 
 with it."^ 
 
 But I have not yet completed the argument in opposi- 
 tion to the secularization of education. It is a fact 
 worthy of notice that whenever the attempt has been 
 made to secure for education, in its relation to religion, a 
 negative character, that it is almost sure to become posi- 
 tive. A non-religious education is, in other words, very 
 apt to issue in an anti-religious education. There is here, 
 with regard to Christ, the seeming impossibility of per- 
 manent neutrality. That education which is not for Him 
 is almost sure, ultimately, to become against Him. 
 
 When Thomas Jefferson founded Central College, in 
 Virginia, now the University of that State — an event in 
 his life which he seems to have accounted as more worthy 
 of remembrance even than his authorship of the declara- 
 tion of independence, or his presidency of our country ; 
 for it was that alone that he commanded to be commem- 
 orated upon his tombstone — it was a non-religious educa- 
 
 * Bishop Bloomfield, Greek Testament. 
 
28 Hamilton College. 
 
 tion that he intended in that institution to impart. 
 Jefferson, designed, as one of the late rectors of that 
 university. Dr. W. H. Euffner, writes, "simply to exclude 
 Christianity from its curriculum. The subject of theology 
 tie omitted in the plan of studies, and no provision was 
 made for having any religious worship in the university.* 
 
 But, "/ac^7^5 est descensus^ When Jefferson died, in 
 1827, the non-religious education of the university be- 
 came, for a time, anti-religious. 
 
 But there is another thought in this connection, partic- 
 ularly worthy of attention. The culture of the college, 
 entirely separated from the teachings of Christianity, is 
 very prone to beget a mental condition, which is, in a 
 high degree, unfavorable to any subsequent reception of 
 spiritual truth. 
 
 I have already remarked that, in addition to the scien- 
 tific or logical faculty, every man has a spiritual faculty, 
 or, in other words, a power to apprehend spiritual truth. 
 But this faculty, like every other, is capable of either 
 growth or decline. It may, by one sort of discipline, be 
 increased, and by another decreased. And now that sort 
 of discipline which decreases this faculty, I afl&rm is a 
 culture which has in it no practical recognition of man's 
 capacity to know and love God. The years of any man's 
 college life, spent exclusively in scientific investigation, 
 or philosophical reasoning, his power of apprehending 
 spiritual truth the mean time remaining uncultivated, 
 will find if ever afterwards he should be brought into 
 contact with such truth a repugnance, if not inability to 
 consider it. 
 
 Nor is this all. Almost every individual, in this coun- 
 try at least, receives his religious faith in the first place 
 by tradition. It comes to him through the nurser}^ He 
 is taught divine truth by parents, or he learns these 
 truths through the prevailing .sentiment of the commu- 
 nity. And knowing nothing else to believe, or that 
 there is any faith, but this, he receives it and quietly 
 
 * Preface to Lectures before the University. 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 29 
 
 rests upon it. But religious faith thus received by tradi- 
 tion and in our innocence supposed to be unquestioned 
 as to its truthfulness, we find by and by is assailed. Men 
 affirm that it is all a deception. They deny the supernat- 
 ural character of Christ, the authority of the sacred scrip- 
 tures, it may be question even the existence of Grod. 
 And with all this, there likewise comes, just at this time, 
 a capacity for evidence. Traditional piety can now pass 
 into personal conviction, and educational religion become 
 the religion of the understanding. And this ordeal 
 passed through, in very many instances in the years of 
 the college curriculum is oftentimes terrible. An old be- 
 lief on trial, the faith of our fathers to be our own, or to 
 make room for some new creed, the agony is deep, in- 
 tense, enduring. Some of you remember, I doubt not, 
 this battle, as that young Englishman, Frederick W. Eob- 
 ertson, fought it amid the solitudes of the Tyrol. And 
 when in these days, out of that battle I behold so many 
 coming, not as the victors, but the vanquished, their old 
 faith gone, and in its place either a wanderer between 
 two worlds, 
 
 " One dead, 
 
 Tlie otlier powerless to be bom, 
 Witb nowhere yet to rest bis bead," ■ 
 
 or a defiant unbeliever, I can but feel that in every col- 
 lege, with culture, there should go religion. 
 
 And then, although this is not the occasion for sermon- 
 izing, who at all familiar with the teachings of inspiration 
 will not just here recall Solomon's description of the 
 misery of Grodless knowledge. The book of Ecclesiastes 
 is autobiographic. It is of himself that Solomon there 
 writes, as having "gotten more wisdom than all they that 
 had been before him in Jerusalem ;" yet as all that wis- 
 dom was undevout, had in it no recognition of the divine 
 authority and government, he avers that it was only an 
 illustration of that sentiment with which he commences 
 the book, and which is really its text: "Vanity of 
 vanities, saith the preacher; vanity of vanities, all is 
 
30 Hamilton College. 
 
 vanity," "for in much wisdom is mucTi grief; and he that 
 increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." And what a 
 striking illustration of the truth of these words of inspiration 
 is found in Albert Durer's ideal of melancholy as he has 
 embodied it on canvas. The genius of the world's labor 
 and knowledge is represented in an hour of arrested 
 thought, reposing from her toil. Her arm rests on a 
 great book, her hand grasps an open compass, at her feet 
 lie the tools of the carpenter, the geometer and the 
 alchemist, and with an infinite sadness depicted upon her 
 countenance, the geoius is looking out into the vast 
 regions of space before her. Over her head is a square 
 window divided into sixteen compartments, each filled 
 with a number, and all so arranged that the sum which- 
 ever way counted, horizontically, vertically, or diagonally, 
 is the same — thirty-fouv. By the side of the square win- 
 dow hangs an hour-glass, whose sands are half run, and a 
 bell, and just as the sun sets there is seen in the distance, 
 flying across the scene, a bat bearing a scroll, on which is 
 written the word "Melancholy." How remarkable! 
 When the great painter of Nuremberg would give us the 
 genius of melancholy his election fell upon the genius of 
 knowledge. 
 
 Here then is my first position with regard to the 
 relative place and sphere of culture and religion in the 
 education of the American College. Religion must be 
 allied to culture. Education must not be secular. 
 Hellenism is not the perfection of our humanity. 
 
 But religion thus to be allied with culture, and all cul- 
 ture incomplete without it, let us not fail on the other 
 hand to observe, that religion demands culture, and that 
 without it there is very largely the same incomplete and 
 imperfect development that we have just described. That 
 men often attribute to religion a reach and sufficiency co- 
 extensive with all the wants of human nature, call it the 
 one thing needful, is indeed true, but the statement is 
 altogether too general to bear the scrutiny of a careful 
 analysis. 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 31 
 
 I have affirmed that for the reason that man has a 
 spiritual faculty, a faculty which enables him to appre- 
 hend spiritual trnth, religion must have its place in edu- 
 cation, that is, if education is the educing or drawing 
 forth of all that is potentially in man, tnen is the cultiva- 
 tion of the religious side of our natures implied by its 
 very definition. 
 
 But then man has other faculties beside this spiritual 
 one. He can study natural and mental phenomena. He 
 can become acquainted with the laws which control phys- 
 ical events. He can familiarize himself with the great 
 deeds and high thoughts of past ages. And if he does 
 not can he be said in any way to have accomplished the 
 purposes of his being? A mere religionist is he not, as 
 truly one-sided as the mere culturist; and humanity con- 
 templated in its totality, has it not an aspect toward the 
 world, just as well as toward God? That Christianity, or 
 rather the church has often been jealous of the results of 
 scientific investigation, and has some times placed itself 
 in direct opposition to them, I know. It seems to have 
 felt that it was possible that such investigations might be 
 found in antagonism to its faith. But this ought never 
 so to be. The church should hail all truth with delight. 
 It should welcome every rising tide of knowledge. Aye 
 more ! The church should itself learn all the new knowl- 
 edge which the age learns, assured that all knowledge is 
 not simply worthy of acquisition, but is so harmonious as 
 ultimately to appear mutually helpful and supporting. 
 
 But the thought upon my general theme which I desire 
 just here to present, will perhaps appear more strikingly 
 in the concrete, than in any of these abstract remarks. I 
 have already in this discussion spoken of Judea as the 
 I)irthland and fountain-head of religion to the world. 
 "It was," to quote the language of another, "in that 
 nation the most isolated and exclusive of all peoples, a 
 nation shut off from all the world by the most narrow 
 restrictions and prejudices that there arose in all the 
 force of living conviction, a religious faith, the most un- 
 restricted, the most expansive, and all-embracing which 
 
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 the world had hitherto known, or ever will know." And 
 in this aspect of Hebrew history and character, He- 
 braism, aiming at self-conquest, self-devotion, the follow- 
 ing not our own individual will, but the will of God, at 
 obedience ; and that Hebraism which had its full fruition 
 in Christianity, aiming to secure all this, by conforming 
 to the image of a self-sacrificing example, it is beyond 
 thq possibilities of human thought to estimate the debt 
 of gratitude which the world owes to that people. But, 
 notwithstanding all this, was Hebraism the law of human 
 development, or only a contribution to it? Have we 
 here the ideal of our humanity completing itself on all 
 sides, or only an imperfect picture of it? In answering 
 this question let us for a moment take the intellectual 
 culture of Attica anywhere between the third and fifth 
 century before Christ, and suppose it to be transferred to 
 Judea. Let Demosthenes speak, and Sophocles sing, and 
 Thucydides write, and Socrates teach in Jerusalem just 
 as they did in Athens, and can any man fail to see that 
 there has been thus added to Hebraism very much that 
 in it before was actually wanting. Indeed, I can hardly 
 err when I affirm that what is now so commonly called 
 ^'•sweetness and light^' were very rare qualities in Hebra- 
 ism ; that its ideal of life was very largely unattractive 
 and narrow, or at least that it challenges our reverence 
 more than it elicits our love, and was characterized more 
 by strength than beauty. Jewish character, says 
 Michaeles, was so strangely wanting in the aesthetic sensi- 
 bilities as to place it at a very wide remove from the true 
 ideal of the world's civilization. 
 
 Raphael has left among his works as one of the mas- 
 ters of painting, a striking picture of St. Paul. He rep- 
 resents the apostle as a small man, with Jewish form and 
 features, with a bodily presence weak and almost con- 
 temptible, but as inspired with the greatness and majesty 
 of his mission. He leans forward. He stretches out his 
 hands, his lips parted, yet compressed, bespeak intense 
 earnestness ; his eyes flash fire ; his brow beaming with 
 thought, burns also with feeling ; and the very hairs of 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 83 
 
 his head partly stand on end, and partly stream behind 
 him, as if they were all alive with that passion for souls 
 which he expressed in his epistle to the Romans, when he 
 says: "For I could wish that myself were accursed from 
 Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to the 
 flesh.'" The picture is the very embodiment of power 
 and disinterested earnestness, and as such may stand for 
 us as a striking illustration of the very best form of 
 Christian Hebraism. In the recent explorations at 
 Athens, a statue of Sophocles has been discovered, and 
 is now in the museum of St. John Lateran at Rome. It 
 is in wonderful contrast to Raphael's Paul. "Every 
 limb," we are told, " is shaped according to the nicest 
 laws of proportion ; rhythm regulates every attitude and 
 movement ; the mouth seems formed for the utterance of 
 musical harmonies; the drapery displaying rather than 
 veiling the fine structure of the body, images the trans- 
 parent purity of his style, and the light fillet which con- 
 fines the natural and graceful tresses of the poet, indi- 
 cates the almost uninterrupted series of triumphs which 
 crowned his long and prosperous life."^ The statue is 
 an impersonation of beauty and repose, and as such is an 
 exceedingly apposite illustration of the best age of 
 Hellenism. 
 
 But culture and religion, indissoluble factors in educa- 
 tion, both having here their place and sphere, neither the 
 law of human development, but both contributors to it,, 
 what now is the precise relation of these factors to each 
 other? Are they equipollent? Are they two things which 
 are to be carried along with each other, side by side, in 
 exactly equal proportions, or is the one to be primary and 
 the other secondary^ and the primary character of the one 
 — if such a character exists at all — is constant and unvar- 
 ied by circumstances? 
 
 The answer that Matthew Arnold gives this question 
 is well-known. Deploring the mechanical and material 
 civilization of our age, the greed of men after that which 
 is altogether external to themselves, and which they 
 
 * Prof. Tyler in the Independent. 
 c 
 
84 Hamillon College. 
 
 vainly imagine constitutes greatness, this English professor 
 affirms, that for all this, culture is the remedy. And here 
 is the way in which he supposes culture will accomplish 
 this end. It makes men dissatisfied with that which is 
 merely mechanical or external. It will not allow men 
 thus to materialize and vulgarize themselves. "As an 
 harmonious expansion," is his language, "of all the pow- 
 ers which make the beauty and worth of human nature, 
 culture goes beyond religion. Its aim is higher." And 
 indeed, as to America, what this writer particularly de- 
 plores in education, is the subordination of culture to re- 
 ligion. " From Maine to Florida and back again, all 
 America," says Arnold, "Hebraises.""^ 
 
 But are these statements true, and in the relations of 
 culture to religion, in the education of the American col- 
 lege, are we to give the first place to culture? Without 
 any direct purpose of replying to the argument just 
 alluded to, no one, I think, can read that book of 
 Matthew Arnold, "Culture and Anarchy " in which it is 
 particularly urged, without being impressed with the fact 
 that it is not religion, that the professor had in mind, when 
 he thus wrote, but Puritanism, or that form of modern 
 English dissent, which called by himself ^^the dissidence of 
 dissent" collects its disciples very largely from the ranks 
 of the unlettered, and has both in its individual and 
 organic life very little of what our author speaks of so 
 repetitiously as, "sweetness and light." 
 
 But in the relation of these two things to each other, 
 culture and religion, suppose we now give in education 
 the pre-eminence to the last. Is that the position which 
 it should always fill ? That this claim is frequently made 
 for it is unquestioned. " The duties of religion," says the 
 learned Dr. Isaac Barrow, " are almost the only study 
 which we are not at liberty to cultivate or neglect. They 
 constitute the only science which is equally and indis- 
 pensably necessary for men of every rank, every age, 
 every profession. Admit the authenticity," he adds, " of 
 
 * Culture and Anarcliy. Preface, p.36. 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 35 
 
 the Bible, and the principal object of education becomes 
 at once as obvious as it is important, to regulate the senti- 
 ments and form the habits of beings degenerate indeed 
 and corrupt by their own fault, but made by the Creator 
 rational in their faculties and responsible for their con- 
 duct." "The end of learning," says Milton in his tract on 
 education, " is to repair the ruins of our first parents by 
 regaining to know God aright, to imitate him and be like 
 him."* "It was for religion," says Thomas Carlyle, at 
 his inauguration as lord rector of the University of 
 JEdinburgh, "it was for religion that universities were first 
 instituted, practically for that, under all change of dialect 
 they continue. * * All is lost and futile in univer- 
 sities if that fails. Science and technicalities are very 
 good and useful in college, but in comparison of religion 
 they are as adjuncts to the smith's shop." 
 
 But let us not, on this point, accept the statements of 
 others, but for ourselves test the question. Culture and 
 religion in education, is the first, culture always to be sub- 
 ordinate to the last, religion. 
 
 I have already in this discussion had occasion to 
 remark that the exclusive cultivation of the scientific and 
 logical faculty has a very strong tendency to weaken, 
 possibly almost entirely to destroy the, spiritual faculty ; 
 that is, culture, or the impulse in man to seek his own 
 perfection, whenever pursued alone, weakens religion, or 
 the impulse in man to seek God. But now it is not so 
 with the reverse of this process. Men do not lessen the 
 power of the scientific and logical faculty when their aim 
 is altogether to quicken their spiritual apprehension. On 
 the contrary, attending to his moral nature man actually 
 provides in some measure, for the satisfaction of his 
 intellectual nature. In seeking to know God we advance 
 in every other department of knowledge. There is a 
 profound philosophy in those words of Christ : " Seek ye 
 first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all 
 these things shall be added unto you." Keligion includes 
 
 * Milton's Tracts, vol. l\ , p. 381. 
 
36 Hamilton College. 
 
 culture and in some degree secures it. It is arch- 
 itectonic. 
 
 Thus, behold the faculties of the mind, freed through 
 the power of a religious faith, in some measure, at 
 least from the clogs and palsies and obstructions of 
 sin, and observe how they are pre-eminently fitted for 
 the investigation of truth. Behold Christianity, in its 
 power to influence the sensibilities of the heart, a gulf 
 opening at our feet, waves of endless woe beating in its- 
 dim recesses with sullen thunder, self-help impossible,, 
 man's help futile, these on the one side; on the other a 
 voice of melting love, a hand of kingly power ; a personal 
 deliverer and friend, a river of grace flowing down from^ 
 the throne of God, the riddle and sting of death taken? 
 away and the entrance upon glory, with songs and ever- 
 lasting joy, are there any such trumpet calls either to 
 tears or songs^ in the whole w^orld as these? And surely 
 if the vastness and grandeur of the objects upon which 
 the intellect dwells have any tendency to give it growth 
 and energy ; or if high enthusiasm of the emotions is cal- 
 culated at all to kindle and push the understanding into 
 powerful action and accomplishment, just as increased 
 fires awaken and accelerate connected machinery, then 
 must Christianity, giving man God as the object of his 
 thoughts and the hope of heaven as the motive of his 
 action, elevate, ennoble and strengthen the mind. And 
 the Bible afl&rms this influence of religion upon the intel- 
 lect. "The entrance of thy word giveth light, it giveth 
 understanding to the simple." 
 
 And then again, the aim of education to give the mind 
 its proper ideal^ and so to train its powers, that that ideal 
 may be realized, where but in the very forefront of edu- 
 cation hiust we place the teachings of religion? Self- 
 perfection is the highest aim of culture. This is its- 
 ideal, and it is to actualize this, that men are to appro- 
 priate to themselves all the past results of human effort, 
 thought and experience. The divine glory, or in other 
 words, the advancement of the kingdom of God, by man 
 becoming in that kingdom himself a conscious worker, is 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 37 
 
 tlae highest aim of religion. This is its ideal and it is to 
 actualize it that men are so to live, that whether they eat 
 or drink, or whatever they do, they are to do all to his 
 glory. And this last ideal what dignity does it impart to 
 any calling of life, or to any act of life. 
 
 "A servant witli this clause," 
 
 sings the quaint George Herbert, 
 
 " Makes drudgery divine, 
 Who sweeps a room, as for thy law. 
 Makes that and the action fine." 
 
 " Man is not placed," says Fichte, '^ in a world of sense 
 alone, but the essential root of his being is in Grod. 
 Hurried along by sense and its impulses, the conscious- 
 ness of this life in God may be readily hidden from him, 
 and then, however noble may be his nature, he lives in 
 strife and disunion with himself, in discord and unhappi- 
 ness, without true dignity and enjoyment of life ; but 
 when the consciousness of the true source of his exist- 
 ence first rises upon him, and he joyfully resigns himself 
 to it, till his being is steeped in the thought; then peace 
 and joy and blessedness flow in upon his soul.""^ 
 
 And the same is true of that discipline by which alone 
 man is enabled to rescue his life from thraldom to the 
 passing moment ; or to his bodily senses, and thus to 
 realize any truly noble ideal. Nothing so effectually 
 secures this as religion. "Energy and devotion to an 
 ideal belongs," says Matthew Arnold, " to Hebraism, and 
 however men may depart from it they must yet come 
 back to it for the happiness of doing what they know." 
 
 But especially on this point should it be remarked that 
 religion, from its very nature, must have, in education as 
 in everything else, the first place, or none at all It can 
 never be subordinate. It is the end, or it is nothing. 
 Sovereignty is the prerogative, that it universally claims. 
 ''I am God, and before me there is none other." Man's 
 
 * Lectures on the nature of a scholar, page 24. 
 
S8 Hamilton College. 
 
 moral nature is higher than his intellectual. It is a more 
 perfect reflection of the divine mind. It finds its re- 
 sponse in the deeper places of our being. It stands in 
 relations to eternity more intimate and vital. It alone 
 defines the character of our immortality. 
 
 Such, then, is the relative place and sphere of culture 
 and religion in the education of the American college. 
 Both contributors, august and invaluable, to human 
 development, but neither its law, both should go together. 
 Education should never be secular. There should be no 
 attempt after mere culture in the college. But neither 
 should education be exclusively religious. Men who 
 study to know God, do indeed in that study find some 
 satisfaction for their intellectual needs ; but all that is 
 inadequate fully to meet their necessities. Hellenism 
 must go with Hebraism. But these two forces in educa- 
 tion are not equipollent. To religion always belongs the 
 first place. 
 
 And now this whole discussion, how exceedingly sug- 
 gestive is it, of the active interest^ that the church, as the 
 representative and guardian of religion, should feel in the 
 college. 
 
 That brilliant Frenchman, Eenan, speaking of what he 
 regards as the neglect in this country of higher educa- 
 tion, and an undue regard for popular instruction, 
 says "we will long have to expiate this fault by our 
 intellectual mediocrity, vulgarity of manners, superficial 
 spirit, and lack of general intelligence." I have nothing 
 in this connection to say of this charge. Possibly there 
 may be in it some measure of truth. But in this remark 
 of Kenan, substituting for " this country," the church, or 
 more particularly certain branches of it, and affirming 
 their neglect of higher education, as evinced by their 
 lack of active interest and sympathy for the college, and 
 I do aver its truthfulness. 
 
 And of this fact allow just here an illustration. And 
 should there be in it any semblance of narrowness, let 
 me simply say "that narrowness, just a little of it, is 
 always a condition of effect. The world's best work, 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 39 
 
 best thinking, best loving, is all done by convergent 
 energy." 
 
 In the early history of the American Presbyterian 
 Church, a branch of the Keformed Church of Europe, 
 that found a home on this continent as late as the opening 
 years of the eighteenth century — the first Presbytery was 
 organized in 1706 — the cause of higher education was 
 particularly cared for. As early as 1719, or a little more 
 than a decade of years after Presbyterianism took root in 
 this country, Tennent built his log college at JSTeshaminy, 
 a college that gave to the church its Blairs, Finlays, Kow- 
 land and the two Tennents, Gilbert and William, sons 
 more illustrious even than their distinguished father. 
 And the log college was soon followed by other institu- 
 tions of a similar character, by the famous school of Dr. 
 Allison, established by the Synod of , Philadelphia in 
 1743, "for the gratuitous education of young men in the 
 languages, philosophy and theology, and whose pupils, 
 by a special arrangement of the synod, received from 
 Yale College the degree of Batchelor of Arts ; ""^ and 
 finall3^ as early as 1746, by Princeton College, " the 
 child," as Dr. Hodge calls it, of the Synod of New York, 
 and an institution in whose interests all the churches of 
 that faith in our country were enjoined by the highest 
 ecclesiastical authority to make an annual collection. 
 
 But surely the Presby^terianism of our day can hardly 
 claim to have maintained this spirit of her founders. 
 The late Dr. Courtland Yan Eensselaer, who spent 
 almost the whole of his professional life in the advocacy 
 of Christian education, frequently alluded to what he 
 called a decline of active interest on the part of the 
 Presbyterian Church, in the cause of higher education, 
 and was wont to characterize it "as the profoundest mis- 
 take in her history." And had that distinguished ser- 
 vant of the church been spared to see what is now pain- 
 fully familiar to us, he would repeat, I have no question, 
 that remark with peculiar emphasis. 
 
 * History of the Presbyterian Cliurcli, by Dr. C. Hodge, vol. H, p. 
 218. 
 
40 Hamilton College. 
 
 And from such a neglect of the church, must not the 
 most calamitous results follow ? Eenan speaks of our 
 country as expiating its alleged fault in this matter, by 
 intellectual mediocrity, vulgarity of manners, a- superfi- 
 cial spirit and a lack of general intelligence, and while I 
 do not affirrfi these specific results, as following from the 
 same neglect by the church, I do affirm, in their place, 
 others quite as much to be feared. Thus, if the church 
 pays no regard to higher education, nothing can prevent 
 its secularization. If faith does not educate, unbelief 
 will. There is no question as to the establishment, in 
 this age, of colleges and universities. The only possible 
 inquiry regards their character. 
 
 And then, the church, no more in close and vital con- 
 nection with the college, can we err when we affirm of her 
 ministry, the peril of at least intellectual inferiority? 
 "When the Emfjeror Julian prohibited Christians from 
 teaching the arts of grammar and rhetoric, Gibbon says, 
 that "he expected, in the space of a few years, that the 
 theologians, who then possessed an adequate share of the 
 learning and eloquence of the age, would be succeeded 
 by a generation of blind and ignorant fanatics, incapable 
 of defending the truth of their own principles, or of ex- 
 posing the various follies of polytheism.""^ And the ex- 
 pectation was well founded. Christianity can not afford 
 to have her advocates taken out of or away from the 
 society and influence of institutions of learning. "It is," 
 says Mr. Emerson, "because the universities of Eng- 
 land are parcel of the ecclesiastical system, that the 
 clergy, for a thousand years have been the scholars of the 
 nation."! Moreover, the opposition of science, falsely so- 
 called to religion, and of human reason to revelation, 
 "what could more effectively intensify this, than a separa- 
 tion of the church from the college. The time has been 
 in the history of our world, when the church could reply 
 to all spiritual doubts and unbelieving utterances, by acts 
 
 *Milman's Gibbon, vol. II, p. 443. 
 f Prose Works, vol. II, p. 265. 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 41 
 
 of force, and the brute thunder of ecclesiastical anathe- 
 mas. But all that is passed now. Unbelief, fortif3Mng 
 herself by facts in physics, or arguments in metaphysics, 
 must, in our daj^ be met and overcome by the same 
 weapons. And the special field of all such conflicts, of 
 very necessity, the porticos and groves and academies of 
 modern learning, it is almost a confession of defeat for 
 the church of Christ from these to retreat. 
 
 O that the representative and guardian of religion, that 
 factor in the education of the college, which must always 
 have the first place, the church, was here fully alive to 
 her responsibility. When by the unconquerable boldness 
 of the Hollanders, that tide of Spanish invasion which 
 for nearly 80 years had inundated their land, was rolled 
 away, the Prince of Orange, desirious of bestowing some 
 special honor upon the citizens of Leyden, because of 
 their peculiar bravery, offered to make their city either 
 the seat of an annual fair which would bring great wealth 
 to it, or the seat of an university. The people were 
 famine stricken. They staggered in their wan and wasted 
 frames along streets that had been smitten as by the blast 
 of fire in their terrible siege. But all honor to the mem- 
 ory of the citizens of Leyden. They chose the university. 
 What glory, what success would come to a church, that in 
 these days should place such an estimate as this upon the 
 college, that would prefer its upbuilding to her own out- 
 ward decoration. ''There is in this university," said 
 Carlyle in that address, from which I have already quoted, 
 "a considerable stir about endowments. That there 
 should be need of such is not honorable to us at a time 
 when so many in Scotland have suddenly become pos- 
 sessed of millions, which they do not know what to do 
 with. Like that Lancashire gentleman who left a quarter 
 of a million to pay the national debt. Poor soul ! The 
 deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money 
 as our ark of the covenant." 
 
 It is with us as a literary institution, as Carljde says it 
 was with the University of Edinburgh. There is a con- 
 siderable stir about endowments, and while I would not 
 
42 Hamilton College. 
 
 say with this great English essayist, that the very exist- 
 ence of the need is not honorable to us ; I am ready to- 
 affirm that nothing more, for a supply of the need^ is neces- 
 sary than a deep realization, on the part of all who love 
 the Lord Jesus Christ, that in the intellectual culture of 
 the college religion should have the first place. 
 
 And, honored guardians and friends of Hamilton Col- 
 lege, in thus forecasting what must ever be my aim in the 
 conduct of its affairs, I rejoice that I am but following the 
 whole line of its history. This college has always been 
 a Christian college. It was for the glory of his master 
 that a Christian missionary laid its foundation ; it was 
 for the same end that there has been all this building of 
 nearly ninety years upon it, and it is that the same 
 superstructure may be continued that at your call I have 
 come to you with sensibilities even amidst the pleasures 
 of this occasion, bleeding from the rupture of those cords 
 of friendship, which for so many years bound me to a 
 generous people. I am here to serve God in the cause of 
 Christian education. 
 
 And what a microcosm of my theme of discourse to- 
 day, is the motto upon that seal, which in this service, I 
 have received as the insignia of my office, 
 
 " Lux et Veritas." 
 
 You can not better express the highest aims of scholar- 
 ship than by the use of these words. " Light and Truth," 
 that is what all men seek after in this world. It is the 
 end of culture. But just as if, without him, there was 
 no true "Light or Truth," the Lord Jesus Christ affirms, 
 of himself — 
 
 " I am the Light, 
 I am the Truth.'' 
 
REV. DR. A. J. UPSOFS ADDRESS. 
 
 President Darling: 
 
 It is with sincere pleasure that I am permitted at this 
 time to address words of fellowship and congratulation 
 to you. 
 
 During the past ten years our personal relations have 
 been increasingly intimate. We have been Christian 
 ministers in the same capital city. We have labored 
 together as pastors of neighboring and aflS.liated churches. 
 We have been bound together as members of the same 
 ministerial brotherhood. We have often conversed to- 
 gether of things pertaining to the kingdom of God. We 
 have often heartily united in many plans for the promo- 
 tion of the kingdom of our common Lord. And now 
 you have come into this new sphere of duty closely 
 allied to my own. You have come under the influence 
 of associations here that are not only hallowed in my 
 memory, but which have blessed the larger portion of my 
 life. Permit me most sincerely to congratulate the col- 
 lege and yourself And let me frankly say that I do this 
 because, with some knowledge of the peculiar responsi- 
 bilities of the place into which, as I believe, God, in his 
 providence, has called you, I recognize also your peculiar 
 fitness for this difficult and responsible and influential 
 position. 
 
 Let me say, too, that I am not alone in the conviction, 
 that by your scholarship, by your industry, by your 
 energy, by your executive force, by your practical wis- 
 dom, for which Cicero has given us a single word — by 
 yoxxY prudentia, in the past, you have already given abun- 
 dant assurance cf success in the immediate future. 
 
 Many of us, Mr. President, are familiar with your 
 habits of exhaustive study. We recognize your self- 
 controlled enthusiasm in the best things. Many of us- 
 
44 Hamilton College. 
 
 appreciate your wisdom already shown in the develop- 
 ment of youthful character and influence, and in the con- 
 trol and direction of powerful churches. We know how 
 wise and strong you have been as a leader of men, upon 
 the platform, and in the guidance of a great assembly. 
 To those of us who are thus familiar with your career 
 these characteristics are a presage of increasing influence 
 and success in your new position. With such convic- 
 tions as these, I need hardly repeat, it is for myself a real 
 pleasure to recognize our fellowship, and to speak words 
 of congratulation to you to-day. 
 
 And yet I do not for a moment suppose, that merely 
 because of our personal relations, or because of any 
 peculiar fitness in myself, I have been called to address 
 you now. Others are here who have long been identified 
 with the history of this college, and who honor this occa- 
 sion by their presence, who could speak to you with far 
 greater impressiveness and eloquence. 
 
 And yet, providentially, I have been so placed, in such 
 relations, that I am enabled to convey to you congratula- 
 tions much more significant than any merely personal 
 words can express. The Kegents of the University of 
 the State of New York, who have the supervision of the 
 colleges and academies of the State, have always cher- 
 ished sentiments of peculiar esteem and regard for Ham- 
 ilton College. Permit me, Mr. President, as a member of 
 that board, to express to you and your associates, our 
 heartiest congratulations and good wishes. The college 
 received its charter from the Board of Eegents nearly 
 seventy years ago. In age you are the third college in 
 the State. The distinguished statesman after whom your 
 college is named, and who was one of its early patrons, 
 was the author of the statute which organized the Board 
 ■of Eegents. Five members of the board were graduates 
 of this college. Its efficient secretary and assistant sec- 
 retary, for many years, are among your most honored 
 graduates. The learning and influence of your officers 
 of instruction and government, have often been recog- 
 nized in the convocations that have been held in Albany 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 45 
 
 under the auspices of the board. No educational papers 
 have there been read of greater interest and value than 
 those contributed from this colle2;e. And no colleofe in 
 New York has been more loyal to the educational inter- 
 ests of our own commonwealth, than has the college 
 which bears the name of the great political genius of the 
 State and the Union, Alexander Hamilton. 
 
 We have no doubt that the traditions of the college in 
 this regard will be perpetuated by yourself. It is the 
 earnest desire and present purpose of the Board of Re- 
 gents to make their influence increasingly felt in the 
 higher education of New York, and to stimulate in every 
 legitimate way the collegiate as well as the academical 
 education of the State ; so that the sons of New York 
 need no longer neglect their own, so that the sons of New 
 York need no longer cross the borders of their own com- 
 monwealth, to gctin what they conceive to be, the highest 
 educational advantages. 
 
 With these plans, we believe, that you, sir, and your 
 associates will sympathize. And in this belief the Re- 
 gents of the University of New York congratulate them- 
 selves, as well as yon to-day. 
 
 And you will not be surprised, sir, that as a Professor 
 in Auburn Theological Seminary I bring you the frater- 
 nal greetings of its authorities, and ©f all our theological 
 seminaries. You are an alumnus of Auburn Theological 
 Seminary, and the first alumnus of that institution who 
 has been elected president of this college. We feel our- 
 selves honored by your election to this influential posi- 
 tion. The natural union of the seminary and the college 
 is thus, we believe, recognized and emphasized. For the 
 two are essentially one. We have a similar history ; we 
 have largely the same friends ; we have a common con- 
 stituency, a common patronage and a similar ""purpose. 
 Less than a hundred miles apart, railways and ^telegraphs 
 and telephones are rapidly enabling us to live within 
 hearing, if not in sight, of each other. 
 
 Of the 1,230 ministers who have pursued their studies 
 in Auburn Theological Seminary, 277 weref graduates or 
 
46 Hamilton College. 
 
 undergraduates of Hamilton College — a number large 
 enough to indicate that we are very closely related and 
 reciprocally interested in each other's prosperity. We 
 would not be divorced, and 3^ou will not divorce us. Of 
 the 1,230 ministers who have pursued their professional 
 studies in Auburn Seminary, 999 have been college-bred 
 men. We believe in college-bred ministers, and so do 
 you ; and therefore we can not fail to be greatly inter- 
 ested in each other's work. 
 
 We bid you and your associates, Mr. President, God- 
 speed in all your efforts to add to the resources of this 
 college, and to perpetuate and increase the thoroughness 
 and breadth of its scholarship. No talents can be too 
 great, no learning can be too profound, no culture can be 
 too thorough to consecrate to Christ and his church. 
 
 And let me, in the name of the Christian ministers and 
 churches of the State, welcome you to this position into 
 which God has called you. This is a college founded by 
 a Christian missionary, for the advancement of "the 
 kingdom of the blessed Eedeemer" — the "light" of the 
 gospel has illuminated its halls — the " truth " of the gos- 
 pel has been taught by its instructors. Of its 2,200 
 graduates, 625 have been Christian ministers. May it 
 ever be a Christian college. Palsied be the tongue that, 
 in yonder chairs of instruction, shall ever deny the truth 
 as it. is in Jesus ! 
 
 The Christian people of this State, sir, welcome you to 
 your high place, as a representative Christian minister. 
 For they are thus assured that the truth here taught will 
 be expressed in words that have no uncertain sound. 
 
 And more than this : Most of us are thoroughly con- 
 vinced that a Christian college must look largely, for its 
 support and patronage, to some particular Christian de- 
 nomination, to which it stands in a kind of representa- 
 tive relation. We believe " it is a strong guaranty of the 
 permanence and success of a college to be entrenched in 
 the affections and sympathies of a Christian people, who 
 feel a special responsibility as to its fortunes, and a special 
 joy and pride in its fame and influence." Sectarian pecu- 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 47 
 
 liarities should not be offensively obtruded ; a narrow, 
 proselyting spirit should be condemned ; conscientious 
 convictions should not be rudely assailed in the public 
 and ofl&cial instructions given ; and yet the influence of 
 the college in this direction should not be indefinite and 
 negative, but pronounced and positive. Tlie religious 
 tone of the institution should be clearly defined, so that 
 patrons may know the kind of influence that in this re- 
 spect will surround their sons ; so that donors may be 
 sure their gifts will not be diverted. In that most intelli- 
 gent commonwealth on our eastern border, large sums 
 that have been given in the past to "Christ and the 
 church," are in danger to-day of being transferred to the 
 agnostics. By pursuing a policy of uncertainty or indif- 
 ference in this direction, a college gains nothing, and loses 
 much. 
 
 Do not misunderstand me ; a college will not depend, 
 for its prosperity, exclusively upon the religious sympathy 
 of its patrons and friends. By no means. A college will 
 also depend largely for its prosperity upon its location, 
 upon its scholarship, upon its reputation for good learn- 
 ing and thorough instruction, upon its libraries and other 
 appliances for education, upon the good will of its 
 alumni, upon the sympathy and affection that will gather 
 round it, in the progress of years. 
 
 And yet, prominent among these sources of prosperity, 
 perhaps leading them all, are those conscientious convic- 
 tions that bind to it, patrons and friends, with hooks of 
 steel. For a Christian college to disregard altogether this 
 source of life and power, is suicide ! 
 
 Because we believe that you, sir, sympathize with these 
 views, the Presbyterian ministers and churches of this 
 State greet you to-day You believe as we do, that the 
 relation between the Presbyterian church and this college 
 is reciprocal, and should be close and permanent. The 
 church needs the college, and the college needs the 
 church. 
 
 Both propositions are true — one is as true as the other. 
 Why not have a Nassau Hall ? Why not have a Prince- 
 
48 Hamillon College. 
 
 ton College in New York, as well as in New Jersey? 
 Your location is similar. The organization of the Uni- 
 versity of the State, under the supervision of the Kegents, 
 presupposes that each of the colleges shall represent 
 some phase of religious opinion. Why not concentrate 
 here the same abundant wealth and learnicg and culture 
 that have made the College of New Jersey increasingly 
 renowned all over the earth? Why not gather here a 
 similar reservoir of Christian influence, that shall fertilize 
 the world? 
 
 But, Mr. President, as one of the graduates of this col- 
 lege, I am also permitted to represent .the alumni, and 
 greet you with cordiality as our leader. 
 
 As graduates of Hamilton College, we, sir, consider 
 ourselves to be a very respectable body. More than 
 two thousand two hundred men have marched in our 
 ranks, and to-day our little army among the living is sev- 
 enteen hundred strong. Some of us have stood before 
 kings. Many of us, we think, have been useful to the 
 State as executive officers and law-makers. Some of us 
 upon the bench, we believe, have faithfully administered 
 justice and enforced the laws. We know that others of 
 our number have become deservedly trusted financiers; 
 and others still have wielded a wide influence in the 
 marts of trade. Many have healed the sick, and many 
 more, in this land or in foreign countries, have cared for 
 the souls of men. 
 
 On the roll of our army, are the names of many schol- 
 ars and teachers, and some distinguished authors. We 
 have certainly made our voices heard from the pulpit 
 and from the platform, at the bar and in the senate. 
 
 To be sure, not many years ago, in the city of New 
 York, there was a closely contested competition by under- 
 graduates in the department of public speech, in which 
 very many of the leading colleges of the country took 
 part. To be sure, in advertising the competition, they 
 did placard, all over the city, the name of our little col- 
 lege at the very end of the list of colleges, in very small 
 letters, entitling us "and_Hamilton." We could find no 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 49 
 
 fault with the arrangement or the st_yle. It was very 
 •natural. 
 
 Neither could we blame our enthusiastic boys if, at the 
 •end of the competition, when the victory was gained by 
 •one of their number, they did — taking him on. their 
 shoulders and carrying him out of the hall — shout till the 
 welkin rang, somewhat in derision, the no longer humil- 
 iating words, "and Hamilton." 
 
 But we would not make too much of trifles. We 
 would not be too sensitive. We are among the smaller 
 colleges. And yet every one may have wondered why 
 our remarkable merit has not been recognized invariably 
 by the authorities of our own college. Some may have 
 wondered why some graduate has not been made president ! 
 There is no mystery about it. Hamilton graduates are 
 all otherwise engaged. The business in which they are 
 employed is too important to be left! 
 
 Besides, they know by experience that their own little 
 college does not need their help. It is attractive enough 
 to draw to itself the very best in the land. Have we not 
 drawn five of our presidents from one of the two largest 
 colleges in the country? And did not the second of 
 these five deliberately prefer to succeed Azel Backus here 
 rather than Timothy Dwight at New Haven ? Did it not 
 require the combined power of both the universities of 
 Dublin and Glasgow to educate for us our fourth presi- 
 dent! And have we not attracted another, one of her 
 most cultured sons from the halls of Dartmouth ? And 
 now we have to thank Amherst College for another 
 leader. And in truth, we are grateful. With no affecta- 
 tion we can seriously say, that with all our own ability 
 and learning, these imported instructors have done us 
 good. They have given us ideas which, perhaps, we our- 
 selves might never have originated. They have intro- 
 duced new methods of education which the experience of 
 other colleges has proved to be useful. While correcting 
 our faults, they have not been blind to our merits. 
 
 Mr. President, our .salutations are fraternal. It is a 
 cheering indication of the increasing heartiness of our 
 
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50 Hamilton College. 
 
 people that, more than our fathers, we are recognizing our 
 college relations and expressing our attachment. Gradu- 
 ates are gathering in larger numbers every year, to cele- 
 brate college anniversaries. The alumni cf Hamilton 
 College share this spirit of the times, in their desire to 
 express in every possible way their enthusiastic attach- 
 ment to their educational home. We want to be enthu- 
 siastic. We do not want to be ashamed of our enthusiasm. 
 We are glad to have more and more substantial reasons 
 for it, in the ability, the learning and the accurate schol- 
 arship of yourself and your associates. We want to have 
 more and more substantial reasons for it, in the surpassing 
 excellence of the education here given. 
 
 The graduates of this college are not rich. So far as I 
 know there are not many millionaires among us. If 
 there be the benevolent eyes of our financial commis- 
 sioner — our college procurator will soon discover them I 
 The graduates of Hamilton College are not rich. But 
 we are wealthy in the treasures of our good-will and 
 affection for this venerable college. We love our mother 
 on the hill. We can never forget what she has done for 
 us. God bless her ! 
 
 And, Mr. President, these, my old friends and neigh- 
 bors, among whom I have lived so long, will not think 
 me presumptuous if I say to you, for them, that you will 
 not long be a stranger in this beautiful valley. Your 
 experience will be very different from my own, if you do 
 not receive a cordial welcome to their hearts, their homes 
 and their churches. You will never know, in this world, 
 some of the best of these. God has taken them. I wish 
 you could have know them as I did. How such men as 
 Judge Williams and Dr. Gridley would have encouraged 
 your heart and strengthened your hands ! Bat their 
 helpful influence remains. It has entered largely into the 
 formation of the character of this community, and will 
 not pass away. 
 
 Not only in this immediate vicinity, but in the city 
 near us, and throughout central New York, the influence 
 of the college is felt and recognized. It has educated 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 51 
 
 many who might not otherwise have received a collegiate 
 education. The obligation is largely felt. It is acknowl- 
 edged. It can be appealed to successfully. 
 
 I hav^e thus endeavored to express to you, Mr. Presi- 
 dent, the cordial greeting of those who are sincerely 
 interested in the prosperity of this seat of learning. I 
 may not have echoed the sentiments of every one. But 
 whatever infelicities may have characterized what has 
 been said, however we may have failed to express the con- 
 victions of all, one thing, I hope, is evident — that for 
 myself and those I represent, we belong to neither of two 
 classes : We have no sympathy with one class who have 
 no faith in the college, nor with another class who expect 
 too much of it. 
 
 There are those who have but little or no faith in this 
 college. If it lives, if it drags out a half lifeless exist- 
 ence, it far surpasses their expectations. And, therefore, 
 they are content with any facilities or with any results. 
 They wonder how anybody can give anything to such a 
 hopeless enterprise. They wonder how anybody can ac- 
 cept a place among its ofldcers of instruction or govern- 
 ment. If they give anything to it themselves, or send 
 any one here to be educated, it is under compulsion. 
 They have no faith in it. 
 
 And, on the other hand, there are those who expect 
 too much. Great numbers should throng its halls. Its 
 course of study should be enlarged into the curriculum 
 of a university. They compare it with institutions four 
 times as old, and wonder why this stripling has not the 
 vigor and the power of mature manhood. They remem- 
 ber that dear, precious old myth, about Minerva spring- 
 ing full-armed from the brain of Jupiter, a myth that 
 they have heard repeated every commencement since 
 their childhood, and somehow they expect the college 
 will realize it. In their desire to accomplish so much 
 they do not appreciate what has already been done. 
 
 Now I need not say that for myself and those I repre- 
 sent, we do not sympathize with either of these two 
 classes. I preach to-day no doctrine of despair. We 
 
52 Hamilton College. 
 
 have faith in the college because of what has already been 
 done, and we would have reasonable expectations only 
 for the future. We w^ould obey the exhortation of the 
 psalmist and not " forget all His benefits." We would not 
 murmur so much over what we have not as to forget 
 what we have. Mr. President, you have doubtless 
 already discovered that many improvements are here 
 needed, and many enlargements may here be made. But 
 I think you would be greatly encouraged in your good 
 work if, in your mind's eye, you could carry, as I do, the 
 picture of yonder college as I saw it in 1840, in my boy- 
 hood, when my name was first enrolled in one of its 
 classes. Why, sir, the . cold, bare and dingy room into 
 which I was introduced was enough to depress the 
 exuberant spirits of the most irrepressible sophomore. 
 There is no such room there now. I had left a pleasant 
 home in the city of Utica, and the first thing they asked 
 me when I entered the room was whether I had brought 
 my mantel piece. 
 
 In those days rough brick jambs were thought to be 
 good enough for college boys. They don't think so now. 
 But I had to buy a wooden mantel piece, and I tied it to 
 the chimney with nails and strings. 
 
 In those days the north end of the college campus was 
 a desert, stript of all its verdure. There were no flowers. 
 There was no observatory then. Our " royal Dane," our 
 glorious cannoneer, was not then "assaulting the skies" 
 with his artillery. 
 
 North college. Dexter Hall, had been half finished, but 
 the students were chopping up the inside for kindling 
 wood. The college chapel, in its artistic proportions one 
 of the most graceful buildings in the State, was in the 
 inside just as rough and marred and sculptured as such 
 rooms used to be, but are not now. To find the library,. 
 I climbed up into the third story of the chapel, where 
 the little collection of books was mixed up with geological 
 and mineralogical specimens. Genesis and geology, if 
 not reconciled, were in close proximity there. 
 
Inauguration of President Darling. 53 
 
 The chemical laboratory was 'down in the cellar of the 
 chapel. Our venerable friend, Professor Avery, then in 
 the maturity of his powers, was doing his best down 
 there to analyze light, in the midst of darkness. The 
 now convenient laboratory was unbuilt. 
 
 In the spacious hall where now are gathered Prof 
 Eoot's invaluable collections was a carpenter's shop. 
 The south college was not half covered with crumbling 
 stucco. The little college campus was enclosed with a 
 wooden fence and guarded all around by a row of ancient 
 poplars. Now, without question, on yonder hill-side is 
 the most beautiful college campus in all the land, and I 
 have seen most of them. No college in the State has a 
 better library building. These and the other facilities I 
 have named, are the accumulations of a single generation. 
 
 If you, Mr. President, could see this college as I saw it 
 in 1840, and contrast it with what you see there to-day, 
 it would strengthen your faith. 
 
 And when I remember how God has blessed this col- 
 lege with men of such ability and scholarship to preside 
 over it, two of whom are living and honored here to-day ; 
 when I remember how, in spite of all the evident disad- 
 vantages of this position, faithful instructors have here 
 given the best of their life to the education of hundreds 
 of young men, and when, as I read your triennial cata- 
 logue, there rise before me so many living forms with 
 their bright and beautiful faces, some of whom have gone 
 down in the smoke of battle, and most of whom are 
 blessing the world by their labors for God and man ; 
 when I remember the many occasions where the influ- 
 ences of the Holy Spirit have been especially felt by the 
 young men gathered in those old halls ; and the many 
 times when great numbers have there been ^' renewed in 
 the temper and spirit of their minds," and made "heirs 
 of God and joint heirs with Christ;" when I think of 
 all these, I will not believe that God will let this college 
 die ! If I may say so, too much has been invested here 
 for God to permit it to be lost. 
 
54 Hamilton College. 
 
 You have come here, sir, at a propitious time. The 
 blessings of God have been recently poured upon this 
 nation ; the avenues of trade are crowded with business. 
 Commerce with foreign nations was never so prosperous. 
 Streams of gold have been flowing into the coffers of the 
 nation, till there is not room to contain them. 
 
 You have come at a propitious time to be president of 
 this Christian college. The assassination of our chief 
 magistrate has brought out the latent Christian faith of 
 this people as never before. 
 
 We do believe in prayer. "We worship the Grod of our 
 fathers. We are a Christian people, and we mean to sus- 
 tain and develop Christian institutions. With one heart 
 and mind we repeat the- beautiful hymn of one of your 
 own associates, suggested by the motto on your college 
 seal, '■^ Lux ei Veritas :^^ 
 
 Welcome tliou servant of the Lord ! 
 
 Lift liigh the quenchless torch of truth ; 
 With purest light from Grod's own word, 
 
 Guide thou the steps of generous youth. 
 
 Be thine the high and holy part. 
 
 Lessons to teach that heavenward lead ; 
 
 And thine the hungry mind and heart 
 With daily bread of life to feed. 
 
 Allies unseen thy steps attend, 
 
 And saints redeemed thy service share ; 
 
 Upward from many a Christian friend 
 Ascends for thee the strength of prayer. 
 
REV. DR. PRIME'S ADDRESS. 
 
 Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees : 
 
 The college, the church and the country are to be con- 
 gratulated on the event that marks this .day and makes it 
 memorable. A city set on a hill can not be hid, and a 
 college with such a history as Hamilton has, with its long 
 line of illustrious presidents and professors, and a host of 
 -alumni adorning the Church and the State, must become 
 a glory in the land, when it reflects the added luster of 
 such a burning and shining light as this day appears in 
 the firmament of learning. 
 
 As a trustee of two sister colleges I bring the hearty 
 good wishes of both, and of all colleges that stand by the 
 oracles of eternal truth and teach only what they know. 
 In this day of conflict between truth and error, between 
 knowledge and science, it is a cause for profound congrat- 
 ulation that this institution has installed in its presiden- 
 tial chair, a gentleman of honored lineage, a Christian 
 scholar, a stalwart divine, a man of large and liberal 
 views, of strong common sense, with knowledge of men 
 and letters, who will give high tone to the work of edu- 
 cation, while he illustrates in his person and his life the 
 dignity and benediction of sound, manly, religious learn- 
 ing. I have long known him in the councils of the 
 church of which he is one of the leaders, and of whose 
 general assembly he is now the moderator. Among the 
 ^YQ thousand ministers serving at her altars, not one is 
 more admirably fitted to sustain, exalt and perpetuate the 
 reputation of Hamilton College. 
 
 Supported by a faculty whose fame is identified with 
 the stars, he will make this college (bright as the past has 
 been) to shine more and more unto the perfect day. 
 
 The retiring president. Dr. Brown, rests on the well 
 earned rewards of a faithful, successful and honored 
 administration. He carries with him the respect, affec- 
 
56 Hamilton College. 
 
 tion and best wishes of the friends of Hamilton college. 
 God grant that he and his beloved family may rejoice in 
 his prolonged and increasing usefulness, till they rest from 
 labor in the joy of the Lord. 
 
 Mr. President, a few days in this valley of wondrous 
 wealth and beauty, have revealed to me its admirable fit- 
 ness as the site of a college of the first rank among 
 American schools of learning. The principles and spirit 
 of your inaugural address to which we have just listened 
 with profound gratification, inspire the assurance that 
 such must be the rank of an institution over which you 
 preside. The valley of the Mohawk unexcelled in fertil- 
 ity and prosperity, teeming with riches and intelligence, its 
 thousand church spires drawing down the blessings of 
 heaven, ought to complete the endowment of this college 
 without a year's delay. 
 
 Eejoicing with you in the circumstances of cheer and 
 hope under which you enter upon your high calling, and 
 invoking the enthusiastic rally of the alumni, and the 
 favor of Him whose knowledge is light and life, I pray 
 that this day may be one which you, Mr. President and 
 the college, will remember always with gratitude and 
 pleasure. 
 
9 
 
 FFICERS OF -ffAMILTON CoLLEGE. 
 
 TRUSTEES. 
 
 Elected. 
 Hon. henry a. foster, LL. D., Rome, 1836. 
 
 Rev. SIMEOX XORTH, LL. D., D. D., Clinton, 1839. 
 
 Hon. HORATIO SEYMOUR, LL. D., L. H. D., Utica, .... 1844. 
 
 Rev. SAMUEL H. GRIDLEY, D. D., Waterloo, 1847. 
 
 Hon. WILLIAM J. BACON, LL. D., Utica, 1856. 
 
 WILLIAM D. WALCOTT, Esq., New York Mills,. 1863. 
 Rev. SAMUEL G. BROWN, D. D., LL. D., Utica, 1867. 
 
 CHARLES C. KINGSLEY, A. M., Utica, 1867. 
 
 Rev. L. MERRILL MILLER, D. D., Ogdensburg, 1869. 
 
 PUBLIUS V. ROGERS, A. M., Utica, 1869. 
 
 Gen. S. STEWART ELLSWORTH, A. M., Penn Yan, .... 1870. 
 Rev. henry KENDALL, D. D., New York, 1871. 
 
 GILBERT MOLLISON, Esq., Oswego, 1871. 
 
 Hon. JOHN N. HUNGERFORD, A. M., Corning, 1871. 
 
 Hon. ELLIS H. ROBERTS, LL. D., Utica, 1872. 
 
 Hon. DANIEL P. WOOD, A. M., Syracuse, 1874. ' 
 
 Hon. GEORGE M. DIVEN, A. M., Elmira, 1874. 
 
 Hon. THEODORE W. DWIGHT, LL. D., New York, 1875. 
 
 Hon. JOSEPH R. HAWLEY, LL. D., Hartford, Conn.,.. 1875. 
 Pres. DAVID H. COCHRAN, Ph. D., LL. D., Brooklyn,.. 1875. 
 
 Rev. WILLIAM E. KNOX, D. D., Elmira, 1876. 
 
 Rev. JAMES B. LEE, D. D., Bovina, 1877. 
 
 Rev. JAMES B. SHAW, D. D., Rochester, 1877. 
 
 Hon. CHARLES McKINNEY, Binghamton, 1877. 
 
 Pres. HENRY DARLING, D. D., LL. D., Clinton, 1880. 
 
 Hon. SHERMAN S. ROGERS, Buffalo, 1880. 
 
 Prof. EDWARD NORTH, L. H. D., Clinton, 1881. 
 
 Prof. THOMAS S. HASTINGS, D. D., New Yoek, 1881. 
 
 PUBLIUS V. ROGERS, A. M., 
 
 acting treasurer, .• 1880. 
 
 CHARLES C. KINGSLEY, A. M., 
 
 acting secretary, 1880. 
 
 Rev. N. W. GOERTNER, D. D., 
 
 commissioner, 1859, 
 
FACULTY. 
 
 Key. henry DARLING, D. D., LL. D., 
 
 PKESlDE^SfT, 
 AND "WalCOtt PROFESSOK OF THE EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY. 
 
 CHARLES AVERY, LL. D., 
 
 PROFESSOR Emeritus of chemistry. 
 
 OREN ROOT, LL. D., 
 professor Emeritus of mathematics, mineralogy, and geology. 
 
 CHRISTIAN HENRY FREDERICK PETERS, Ph. D., 
 
 Litchfield professor of astronomy, and director 
 OF THE Litchfield observatory. 
 
 ELLICOTT EYANS, LL. D., 
 Maynard-Knox professor of law, history, civil polity, 
 
 AND political ECONOMY. 
 
 EDWARD NORTH, L. H. D., 
 Edward-Robinson professor of the greek language 
 
 AND GREEK LITERATURE. 
 
Rev. JOHN WILLIAM MEARS, D. D., 
 
 Albert-Barnes professor of intellectual and moral. 
 
 PHILOSOPHY AND INSTRUCTOR IN MODERN LANGUAGES, 
 AND LIBRARIAN. 
 
 AMBROSE PARSONS KELSEY, Ph. D., 
 
 Stone PROFESSOR of natural HISTORY. 
 
 Rev. OREN ROOT, Jr., A. M., 
 Samuel F. Pratt pe(>fessor of mathematics. 
 
 ALBERT HUNTINGTON CHESTER, E. M., Ph. D., 
 
 Childs professor of agricultural chemistry, 
 
 AND professor OF GENERAL CHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY, 
 METALLUHGY and mining ENGINEERING. 
 
 Rev. ABEL GROSVENOR HOPKINS, A. M., 
 
 Benjamin-Bates professor of the latin language 
 and latin literature. 
 
 Rev. henry ALLYN FRINK, Ph. D., 
 Kiugsley professor of logic, rhetoric and elocution. 
 
 HERMAN CARL GEORGE BRANDT, A. M., 
 
 examiner in greek and latin languages. 
 
" It is my eaknest wish that the Institutioj^?^ mat grow and 
 flourish ; that its advantages may be permanent and exten- 
 sive ; and that under the smiles of the god oe wisdom, it 
 may prove an eminent means of diffusing useful knowledge, 
 enlarging the pounds of human happiness, and aiding the 
 
 REIGN OF VIRTUE AND THE KINGDOM OF THE BlESSED REDEEMER." 
 
 SAMUEL KIRKLAND. 
 
 FORMS OF BEQUEST. 
 
 I. I give and bequeath to the Trustees of Hamilton College, at Clinton^ Otieida 
 County, N. Y., the sum of Thirty Thousand Dollars for the endowment of a Professor- 
 ship in said College, to he called the Professorship, on condition 
 that the principal shall never he used or diminished, hut he securely invested, and the net 
 income and interest shall he devoted to tlie payment of the salary of the incumhent of said 
 Professorship, 
 
 II. I give and hequeath to the Trustees of Hamilton College, at Clinton, Oneida 
 County, the sum of Five Tliousand Dollars, \or Ten TJiousand Dollars,] for the founda- 
 tion of a Lectureship in said College, to he called the LecturesJiip, 
 on condition that the 2^rincipal shall never be used or diminished, hut he securely in- 
 vested, and the net interest ayid income thereof shall be devoted to the payment of the sal- 
 ary of the incumhent of said Lectureship. 
 
 III. I give and hequeath to tlie Trustees of Hamilton College, at Clinton, Oneida 
 'County, N. Y., One Thousand Dollars for the foundation of a perpetual Scholarship in 
 said College, to be called the Scholarship, on condition that 
 the sam£ shall he securely invested, and the net interest used for the payment of the tuition 
 bills of the incumhent of said Scholarship. 
 
 IV. I give and bequeath to the Trustees of Hamilton College, at Clinton, Oneida 
 County, N. Y. , Dollars, on condition that the sam^ shall be 
 securely invested as a part of the Library Fund of said College, and the net interest tltereof 
 expended for the care and increase of the Library. 
 
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