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8 THE BANNER AND POT POURRI of Pure Reasong when he called on President Dwight, he found him studying a bal- ance sheet. The most notable feature of the Dwight administration was Yale's ad- vance in material prosperity, the former Professor of New Testament Greek did not serve God and Mammong he served God, and made Mammon serve him. A Harvard student told me years ago, that, happening to be in New Haven one day, he saw President Dwight walking along College Street, the President overtook an undergraduate, and the two walked on together, chatting and laughing like classmates. The Harvard man was amazed. Imagine such a thing occurring at Harvard! said he. But the Yale incident was characteristic. President Dwight was an unaffected friend of the students, a kindly and inspiring counsellor to the younger members of the Faculty, a distinguished scholar, a great executive. His sense of humor has not been clulled by years. He still has time to hear a good story, and to tell you a better one in exchange. In his old age he has honour, love, obedience, troops of friends. His presence is a benediction. WM. LYON PI-IELPS. Yale College, I8 March, l9l0.

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YALE UNIVERSITY 1909-I0 7 lgrraihvnt Efilnuthg Enright The Noble soul by age grows luslier: Her appetite and her digestion mend. --J. Donne. IMOTHY DWIGHT comes of the best Yale stock-he is a great-grand- son of Jonathan Edwards, and a grandson of Timothy Dwight, President of Yale College from 1795 to l8l7. He was born in Connecticut on the sixteenth of November, l828. He was graduated from Yale in the class of I8-49. Alter his graduation, he pursued studies in theology, and f-or four years was a member of the College Faculty. He then served a term of two years at hard labor in the universities of Bonn and Berlin. From l858 to ISS6 he was professor of Sacred Literature and New Testament Greek at the Yale Theological School, and was then elected President of Yale University. After an immensely successful administration he voluntarily resigned the office in l899, at the age of seventy. Not a single member of the Corporation or of the Faculty knew of his intention until his letter of resignation was sent in. He has published a con- siderable number of books, and was one of the most useful members of the American committee for the revision of the Bible. On almost any day, be the weather fair or foul, he may be seen walking from his beautiful house in Hillhouse avenue to the New Haven Post Qfiice. I never saw him in a street-car in my life and if he had not always been a busy man, I think he would walk to New York rather than take the railway. At the completion of his administration, I heard a member of the Corporation fsince resignedj, a graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School, say that Dr. Dwight was one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all Yale's Presidents. Like many members of the Corporation who had been trained in theology, he pr-oved to be a first-class business man. For a considerable period of time, he took upon himself the double duty of President and Treasurer, and the University waxed fat. i Mr. Hadley used to say that when' he entered President P'orter's office, he found that amiable gentleman reading Kantls Kriiilf

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COLLEGE STREET LOOKING TOWARD CHAPEL STREET