enter the presence of future burgomasters, princes, and dukes of the empire." Our teachers might well have shown a mark of respect on entering a reciting or lecture-room of that day.

N. Cleaveland (1813) was young, vivacious, scholarly, showing the æsthetic tastes which always characterized him. He was the poet of his class, and among the best of college poets. I recall his poem before the Peucinian Society at its anniversary Nov. 22, 1812, and particularly the grace with which he disposed of the name of our river Androscoggin, too unwieldy for his verse, leaving, as he said, the unmanageable word for Indian bards to weave into their song. Mr. Cleaveland was tutor in the college three years, is remembered with grateful respect as head for several years of Dummer Academy Mass., and of a young ladies' seminary in Brooklyn, N. Y. He published several addresses which, especially when historical subjects are treated, exhibit faultless taste, skill in detail, delicate humor and breadth of treatment. When he died he had been for more than twenty years engaged on a history of the college and its graduates, now nearly completed by another hand.

In the class before me, George Evans was a youth rather rough at times, the writer, a mere boy, thought in an encounter with him in foot ball, with more reputation for capacity, I think, than for scholarship. He graduated with a poem, but at once forsook dalliance with the muses and gave himself earnestly to what the public deem the higher sphere of the law and politics. He rose rapidly to leadership at the bar; was sent to Congress in both branches, one of the ablest and most influential of the New England representation, and a power when it was something to be such in the Congresses of that day. Mr. Webster, it was said, regarded him as the strongest man in questions of finance.

Rufus Anderson, of the class of 1818, was contemporary with myself, tall in stature, fine, engaging person, diligent, of excellent scholarship, irreproachable. He was president of our principal society, the Peucinian, and exhibited elements of character which he sustained to advanced age-decision, firmness, method. He came to college with well-matured character, but in his senior year enforced it by a full consecration of himself to the service of Him who became henceforth the Sovereign of his heart. He inherited a physical constitution which discouraged the hope of long life. His father and mother were victims of consumption, and his brother, whose name stands next on the class-role, followed during the year after graduation. For some years it seemed as if he were on the same path of frailty. Yet Dr. Anderson passed beyond four score, ever a man of marked administrative faculty, of intellectual and moral force, publishing several works of great value, a guiding influence for more than forty years in the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and leaving a name honored in the Christian world.

Gideon Lane Soule of the same class deserves mention. He came

to college with the advantage of the excellent fitting for which Phillips Exeter Academy has had a name for almost a century, and honored his fitting by his decided taste for clasical study through his collegiate course, graduating with the intermediate Latin oration, always an honorary appointment. He, soon after graduation, was recalled by Dr. Abbot to assist him in the academy, became in time, when Dr. Abbot retired at his semi-centennial service, full principal, and discharged the duties of his station with eminent success until he had completed his own semi-centennial, the occasion being commemorated, as was that of his predecessor, by a notable gathering of the alumni of the institution and appropriate services.

The year 1820 was an epoch in the history of the college, as it was of the State. The District of Maine then became an independent State of the Union. To refer only in a general way to the new impulse communicated to the life of the college by a measure which at a subsequent period proved unfortunate, and by many of its friends was deplored; the authorities, in accordance with the advice of the new President, Rev. Dr. Allen, surrendered its charter to the State, in order to secure financial aid, a change was made in the charter by which influential men were added to its boards of trust and oversight, the medical school was established, new departments were added to its curriculum, new professors were appointed, and the number of students began to increase. Jacob Abbott heads the class of that year. A mere youth, his class-rank hardly betokened what he was to become, and yet characteristics of his mind and character were just putting forth, a peculiarly practical turn in thinking and manner of life, ever seeking practical and useful ends. Scarcely two years had passed before he was called to a professorship at Amherst. Soon after he opened the Mount Vernon School for young ladies in Boston, which gained high repute. Works from his pen on teaching, on vital points in the Christian scheme, which attracted the favorable attention of the ablest minds, and in rapid 'succession a copious library of books for the young, the product of his own inventive faculty, have given him a name with the Barbaulds and Edgeworths of a former English generation.

The class of 1822 had men who had distinguished themselves in professional life, as Appleton, for some years Chief Justice of Maine; James Bell, a distinguished New Hampshire name, who, though he had been in the Senate of the United Statés, found more solid satisfaction in his New Hampshire home and at the Bar, where he reached the highest rank; and Storer, who has gained a name to be remembered with respect and gratitude as a practitioner, as a teacher, and founder of the Tremont School of Medicine, in Boston, and a cultivator of Natural Science.

The college, if it had a voice, would demand liberal space for mention of another name in that class, William Smyth. The story of his early life reveals the heroic spirit that was born with him.

A mechanic's son, familiar with narrow circumstances, early taught to care for and even provide for an orphan brother and sister, acting as a mercantile clerk, meanwhile teaching private pupils and fitting himself for Junior standing in college, and then at once taking the head of the class, although scarcely with his own eyes, which he had abused by night study, and borrowing those of his chum. Called to a proctorship in the college and a teacher of Greek, his favorite branch, what may be regarded an accident developing what was to be his specialty for forty or more years-mathematical science, and as professor in that department, issuing in successive years a series of text books from algebra to the calculus, which were adopted by other colleges; a mechanic by inheritance, also architect, engineer, of true public interest; active in town or State affairs, after a contest in the courts establishing a system of public high schools; antislavery from the beginning, and as an associate in the cause, issuing annual reports of marked ability, and sustaining a public discussion in the public press with antagonists at home and in the South; and as his last work for the college, by personal effort, raising $34,000 for the "Memorial Hall," and superintending the foundation, when he was attacked by fatal disease of the heart, which in an hour or two terminated in death. . Had he lived, the work on that hall would probably have been completed, which at this writing, more than twelve years after, is under contract. Prof. Smyth was remarkably a man to be seen and known of men-of great simplicity, openhearted neither failings nor virtues hidden; of deepest, strongest affections, of integrity never questioned, of great energy and endurance of undoubted Christian character, fertile in device or expedient of a power of concentration at times almost a weakness. On one occasion, after a scene of disturbance for hours, he returned at midnight to his study, and calmed his vexed and harrassed spirit by what he called a "turn" at Laplace's "Mechanique Celeste."

The class of 1823 bears on its roll a name familiar throughout the land, William Pitt Fessenden. A lad when he entered sophomore, for he was but fourteen. Attractive in person, of high spirits, quick to learn, and one of whom it must be thought that everything depended on the influences that would act upon him and on turn he would take. That was soon decided by his early and rapid rise at the bar, and in a few years in political life. He soon represented his town in the State Legislature and was elected to Congress. An early friendship between his father, Gen. Samuel Fessenden, a prominent member of the Cumberland Bar, Maine, and Mr. Daniel Webster, opened an avenue of friendly encouragement and influence for the son. In his own State, in both branches of Congress, at an important crisis of affairs, his vigorous intellectual endowments, his bold stand taken at once in the conflict of debate then in progress, his chivalrous bearing, self-reliance and unflinching spirit had, it was declared, the "effect of a reinforcement on a field of battle." In

the Senate of the United States he gained a position so important and conspicuous that, as one of its ablest members affirmed, that chamber, by his death, "seemed without him to be a different body." Of the class of 1824 two members are conspicuous, Franklin Pierce and Calvin Ellis Stowe. The former was born in Hillsborough, N. H., son of Gov. Benjamin Pierce, a man of mark, a sterling specimen of our Revolutionary men, a staunch Democrat of the Jefferson school, who transmitted his spirit and principles to the son. While in college he showed the elements of a peculiarly chivalric bearing, and of the high social qualities which in subsequent years made him a general favorite and the idol of his political party. His preparation for college having been rather miscellaneous, and not having himself formed literary tastes or habits of study, the first half of his collegiate course was idled or played away. But a marked change came over him, as the writer noticed in the recitation-room, and was apparent in the merit-roll of his class, the secret of which Pierce himsolf revealed to him in subsequent years. When the relative standing of the class was ascertained at the opening of the Junior year, he found himself at the foot in scholorship. Disappointed and chagrined, he threw himself on his bed and meditated. He absented himself from college exercises, expecting and hoping some form of punishment as the necessary result. The college faculty were interested in him and forbore. Cooler judgment asserted itself, and, reinforced by the intercession of two of his class, led him to renounce his ill-advised purpose. "But," said he to his friends, "if I do so, you shall see a change." We did see it. From that time he devoted himself to his proper work. The writer remembers the noticeable change in his own exercise in Locke, the text-book of metaphysics, and was surprised by his full and ready command of the author. For months, with iron resolution, he rose at 4 A. M., and till midnight gave himself to his studies, never incurred a censure, was absent to the end of his course from but two college exercises, and then unavoidably, and graduated with the third honor of his class. He commanded the only military company which has ever existed among the students, and gave tokens of the predelictions and capacities after developed on a wider field. He left college with a reputation honorable to himself and his class. That turning period of his life reminds one of a very like crisis in the life of the eminent Dr. Paley, Archdeacon of Carlisle, both in the manner of it and the result. The subsequent career of Mr. Pierce at the bar, in the civil and political history of his State and the nation until he ascended to the chair of the Presidency of the United States, is of public record in our national annals.

The other member of that class is Calvin E. Stowe. He was a native of Natick, Mass. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a paper maker, and worked in his mill two years. He then fitted for college at Bradford, Mass., and Gorham, Me., under the well

remembered Rev. Reuben Nason; admitted freshman, he was soon recognized as the leader of his class. The writer noticed particularly his written Latin exercises for their latinity. The traits which have ever been ascribed to him, and for which he is specially remembered, were marked in his undergraduate course, his humor and wit, his mimic power, his ready and pertinent speech, his love of books, and his reading in unusual directions for an undergraduate; the simple, strong Saxon of his literary performances, with entire absence of attempts at rhetorical effect; sharp retort in the play of college wit and humor; a most excitable temperament, and, through all, a decided, uncompromising Christian profession and character. He left college for the theological seminary, received ordination, held professorships in Dartmouth and Bowdoin and Lane and Andover Seminaries, and has published several works and contributions to reviews.

The College Triennial not unfrequently fails to denote, in its classical fashion, real celebrities of a class because their names have not had appended what some may regard as the cabala of acadian bodies, the "semi-lunar fardels," as the eminent Dr. Cox wittily styled them, or other mystic initials, indicating honors, the reward of eminence, or as compliments, sometimes, forsooth, bought at a price. Our own class of 1825 has in its roll the name of "Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mr.," all the catalogue shows of a name that does its full share to make that class memorable in college annals.

The visitor at Salem, Mass., is shown with pride the dwelling in the lower part of the town where Hawthorne first saw the light. His family came from England, and settled in Salem early in the last century. The men followed the sea; and his father, a ship-master, died of yellow fever in Cuba when the son was but a child. His mother was said to be of great beauty and extreme sensibility. At the age of ten the boy, on account of his health, was sent to live on the borders of Lake Sebago, Me., and at the proper age was sent back to Salem to complete his fitting fer college. The writer's memory pictures him distinctly as he sat in his Latin and Greek recitation room, a dark-browed youth, with dark, drooping, full, inquisitive eyes, a full head of dark hair, gentle, grave, low, yet' musical, voice; shy as a maiden, always rendering his passages tastefully, writing his Latin exercises with facility and idiomatically. His English themes were complimented by the professor in charge, Prof. Newman, whose compliments were worth having. He was more a reader than a scholar on the merit roll. I cannot do better than quote the picture of him by the pen of a classmate, J. S. C. Abbott, recognized, it is likely, by his contemporaries: Though singularly retiring in his habits, dwelling in unrevealed recesses which his most intimate friends were never permitted to penetrate, his winning countenance and gentle manners won esteem and even popularity. Though fond of being present at festive scenes, ko

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