Hamilton College - Hamiltonian Yearbook (Clinton, NY)

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. 2:0 gorace $rinsmabe giffIman, 2.2,. E. TRUSTEE OF HAMILTON COLLEGE SINCE 1865, IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF THE ENDOWED SILLIMAN SCHOLARSHIP, THEENDOWED HALL FOR Y. M. C. A. AND THE NEW IN? ERIOR OF THE ENLARGED CHAPEL. THIS VOLUME OF THE HAMILTONIAN IS MOST RESPECTFULLY Eebicateb.

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Horace Brinsmade Silliman, LLD. Digitized by 600816 L, JI

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Horace Brinsmade Silliman, ELD. HE name of Horace B. Silliman is sure to live Iustrously in the annals of Hamilton College. What he has done for the College in is architecture is something which cannot be concealed. Yet it illustrates by contrast his fixed habit of doing good by stratagem, carefully shunning any public recog- nition of most timely and thoughtful generosities. It was due to his large- heartedness that Hamilton College has the distinction of being the tirst College in America, if not the first in the world to own an attractive hall purposely built and thoroughly furnished for the exclusive use of its Y. M. C. A. Mr. Silliman makes no concealment of his belief that wealth is put to one of its highest uses when architectural beauty is wrought with glad simplicity and made to minister to the comfort and beauly of Christian worship. This was one of his motives in building the costly Memorial Church in Cohoes, where his father, sixty years ago, prayertully and patiently nurtured the beginnings of what is now one of the strongest churches in theState. This was his motive for giving asumptuous reality to President Stryker's plan of enlarging the auditory of the College Chapel and making it an attractive place for students in their daily worship. Mr. Silliman is also wise in counsel and eloquent in public discourse, as is well remembered by those who heard his Sunday evening address at the Commencement of 1890. We copy below his address in the College chapel at the Presentation Holiday, November I6, 1897 : h Dr. Stryker said to me that I could speak as an adopted son of Hamilton. I have begun to feel as though I was an adopted father. The relation is a peculiar and most pleasant one. I can go back of where Mr. Benedict started. No doubt the eye of Dr. Stryker has much to do with it. But the spirit of Hamilton had more to do with it thirty years ago implanting in the heart and mind of Mr. Benedict that which is better than what is so much sought after by those who seek the approving murmur of the shallows. In his heart was planted a love of true classical education. Because he was true to the human- ities he built yonder Hall of Languages. He did well to build it. It not 12