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CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Preliminary Proceedings 7 
 
 Address by the Rev. A. P. Peabody, D.D g 
 
 Professor Horsford's Letter to the Trustees ... 21 
 An Ancient Legend : A Poem, by Miss Florence E. 
 
 Homer 29 
 
 Address by the Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D 34 
 
 Address by the Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D.D. . . 40 
 
 Address by Professor Eben Norton Horsford ... 49 
 To the Discoverer of Norumbega : A Sonnet, by 
 
 Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton 58 
 
 Address by Miss Anna Broadwell 60 
 
 All Hail to the College Beautiful : A College 
 
 Song, by Miss Katharine Lee Bates 61 
 
 An Open Secret : A Poem, by Miss Louise Manning 
 
 Hodgkins 62 
 
 Closing Proceedings 65 
 
 College Song, by Miss Anne Louise Barrett ... 65 
 
LIBRARY FESTIVAL. 
 
 'T^HE Official Boards, Faculty, and students of Wellesley 
 -■- College devoted Friday, June 4, to a festival in honor of 
 Professor Eben Norton Horsford. They did this as an expres- 
 sion of their appreciation, not so much of his benefactions to the 
 Library, Scientific Department, and the Faculty, as of the con- 
 stant personal interest he manifests, of the substantial help he 
 gives in a thousand ways which cannot be enumerated, and of 
 the high ideals to which his frequent official and friendly visits 
 and his well-matured plans have been an incentive. In all 
 these ways of help to the College and its interests he has fol- 
 lowed his dear friend, Wellesley's founder and father, in direct 
 succession. 
 
 June could not have been asked to give a fairer day, and taste 
 and skill had done their utmost within the College to cause 
 halls and chapel and library to assume a festal air. Fortunately, 
 since June supplies them in such abundance, the daisy is the 
 chosen flower of the class of '86 ; and crowds of their star-like 
 faces, in chapel and library, made a cheerful background for the 
 changing pictures of the day. In the chapel a platform, arranged 
 in three ascending tiers, placed the Beethoven Society in good 
 position, so that the choruses, which relieved the other exercises, 
 were heard with full effect. 
 
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 At a little past eleven, Professor Horsford with President 
 Freeman, and Mrs. Horsford with Dr. N. G. Clark, the pre- 
 siding officer of the day, led the procession of Trustees, Board of 
 Visitors, and Faculty, visiting librarians and friends of education, 
 to the platform. 
 
 The opening prayer was offered by Dr. Griffis, of Shawmut 
 Avenue Church, Boston. After the voluntary, by Professor Hill, 
 a few introductory remarks were made by Dr. Clark. He gave 
 a short history of the library, which was started by the presenta- 
 tion of Mr. Durant's own library of ten thousand volumes, and 
 has since received valuable gifts from various friends who were 
 named. The largest donor among these is Mr. A. A. Sweet, 
 of Hopkinton, who has founded a library for Bible study, in 
 memory of his daughter Gertrude, and intimated his intention 
 to enlarge it. 
 
 Dr. A. P. Peabody, of Harvard College, then gave an address 
 on the "Place of a Library in University Work." 
 
AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE. 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 BY THE REV. A. P. PEABODY, D.D. 
 
 'T~^HERE may be, but there is not necessarily, benevo- 
 lence in the property which a man leaves in dying 
 for the promotion of valuable ends. He may, indeed, thus 
 bequeath funds which he needed for his own support, and 
 to which there are no heirs who have a rightful claim, 
 and he may thus bestow what he would have been glad, 
 if he could, to give in his lifetime. But he who can, yet 
 will not, be generous in his lifetime, merits no praise, and 
 often incurs just blame, for his bequest of what he can 
 no longer enjoy or keep. He who gives largely of 
 what he still has in his possession, however rich, yet 
 has the consciousness of sacrifice. He surrenders, if 
 not what he needs, what in the so frequent vicissitudes 
 of fortune he may need ; what he might employ in 
 luxury or ostentation, or in the more refined enjoyment 
 of art ; what he might utilize in extending his business ; 
 what, if nothing else, might confer a higher rank in 
 the plutocracy of his time, and win for him more of 
 the conventional honor which, with all our moralizing, 
 we have not been able wholly to detach from wealth. 
 Then, too, however we may account for it, the more 
 one has, the less easy is it to give; and I am inclined 
 to think that the purse of the millionnaire shuts with 
 
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 a stronger clasp, and requires more of the grace of 
 God to open it, than that of him whose wealth lies all 
 in the future. You probably never knew a -man who, 
 having been poor, became generous after he grew rich. 
 All honor, then, to living benefactors, — the executors 
 of their own wills. 
 
 Not only in the heart of the donor, but in its actual 
 or potential worth, the gift is to be far preferred to the 
 bequest by will. Unforeseen circumstances may affect 
 injuriously the value of a bequest of long standing. Its 
 purpose may become of less real or comparative im- 
 portance, or may have been adequately met from other 
 sources ; while in a will made close under the shadow of 
 death there is sometimes more of pique or vindictive feel- 
 ing toward legal heirs' than of kind intent, and when this 
 is not so, there may be more of benevolent purpose than 
 of wise forethought. But the living benefactor knows 
 just what he is doing, and can direct his charity toward 
 actual and manifest needs and uses. It is the happiness 
 of Wellesley College that it owes its existence and endow- 
 ments chiefly to those who have been their own almoners. 
 The same funds in the hands of the best possible board 
 of non-resident trustees, with their inevitable diversity of 
 taste, proclivity, and judgment, would have been far less 
 efficient in meeting at once, and in their due proportion, 
 the general interests of the institution and the claims of 
 each separate department. There is very much the same 
 difference that there is between alms bestowed in person 
 and in kind, and the same sums dispensed through some 
 general agency. 
 
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 Then, too, we cannot be unmindful of the legitimate 
 earthly reward which accrues to the living benefactor. I 
 refer not to fame ; for I doubt whether so mean a motive 
 as the mere love of fame would overcome the greed of 
 gain. It would be Satan casting out Satan, which we 
 have divine authority for discrediting. But it is one's 
 right and blessedness to see the good he does ; to watch 
 the upspringing, blossoming, and perennial fruit-bearing 
 of the seed he sows ; to be conscious of having conferred 
 the benefit which he planned; to feed inwardly on his 
 own sacrifice, and to assimilate in the substance of his 
 own being the growing revenue of all that he has be- 
 stowed. Thus, what a man gives he has ; has it by a 
 firmer tenure than that by which he holds anything 
 else ; has It, too, with an interest that goes on com- 
 pounding while he lives in this world; and if it be for 
 the culture of mind, of soul, of character, it is an invest- 
 ment that will yield him even a richer income in heaven, 
 when the now blended rills of beneficence will flow apart, 
 and each may swell into a stream that for untold ages 
 will make glad the city of our God. 
 
 It is such beneficence that has called us together 
 to-day for a festival of gratitude. We rejoice in mu- 
 nificent alms-giving; but how much more in the be- 
 stowal of endowments adapted to raise the standard 
 of society, to make the world substantially better, and 
 thus surely, however indirectly, to reduce the scope 
 and contract the need of alms-giving! Among the 
 instrumentalities for this end, none has precedence of 
 the advanced Christian culture of women, — an end in 
 
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 the statement of which every word has its own intense 
 emphasis. 
 
 It is women that create home, that shape character, 
 that form pubhc sentiment. No community can rise 
 above their level. No man that has the heart of a man 
 can fail to crave their sympathy and furtherance in all 
 that is highest and best in his thought and in his work. 
 Where women are uncultivated, the culture of men is ex- 
 ceptional and sporadic, because it lacks home roots and 
 home fibres. In the ancient republics there were not 
 wanting wise and great men ; but their quahties and at- 
 tainments had no penetrating or diffusive power, because 
 they were unshared by those whose influence as educa- 
 tors, for good or for evil, precedes and overlaps and tran- 
 scends all the training and moulding forces that are at 
 the command of men. Therefore it is that at the very 
 eras that have given us works of genius which later ages 
 can imitate, but never equal, there was no little of bar- 
 barism, nay, even of savageness, in the pursuits, amuse- 
 ments, and modes of living of even the best society. The 
 contents of that multitudinously comprehensive word, 
 civilization, were beyond the reach of women, save in 
 very rare instances, and therefore were attainable by not 
 one man in ten thousand. 
 
 The mere culture of women would undoubtedly go far 
 toward redeeming society from coarseness and vulgarity. 
 It would inaugurate a reign of taste and art and grace. 
 Yet it could not be trusted with the destiny of man, least 
 of all with his training. What the highest refinement 
 could do, independently of religion, was shown in France 
 
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 in the brilliant epoch that preceded the Revolution, when 
 even vice seemed to have lost all of its grossness that is 
 not inherent and inseparable, and yet never had more 
 of essential vileness and depravity than there, in court- 
 circles, and among the most exclusive of the aristocracy. 
 Even more than knowledge, culture, which comprehends 
 literature, science, the arts which we call fine, and the 
 still finer arts that make society ornamental and attrac- 
 tive, is a power equally subtile and mighty, and intensely 
 dangerous when unhallowed, — dangerous even when not 
 transcending the conventional rules of morality. De- 
 voted to merely aesthetic pursuits and pleasures, it en- 
 courages show, ostentation, and extravagance ; it not only 
 tolerates, but even promotes, those half-innocent forms 
 of dissipation which lead on to excesses that are the 
 reverse of innocent, and it so satisfies social cravings 
 of a lower type as to keep those of a higher order in 
 abeyance. 
 
 The culture of women must be Christian, that their 
 influence may be in all regards safe and salutary. In say- 
 ing this, I do not mean that they should be trained in 
 sanctimonious ways of speech or behavior. Nothing 
 could be worse. Sanctimony is a hideous burlesque of 
 piety, often insincere, and when not so, indicating shallow- 
 ness, not depth, of religious conviction and feeling. But 
 we do need that those who are to give tone and character 
 to society, and whose impress each coming generation 
 must bear, should have the eternal right for their unvary- 
 ing law; that they should have the inflexible vigor of 
 moral rectitude which we sometimes term manly, yet 
 
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 which, we men must confess, is in fact oftener womanly ; 
 and then that these hardy sinews of robust virtue should 
 be filled in and rounded out with that beauty of holiness, 
 divinely perfect in Jesus Christ alone, and most nearly 
 perfect in those saintly women who trust in the dying, 
 and exult in the risen, Saviour. It is priestesses thus 
 endowed that we crave for the daily and perpetual service 
 of the home-altar, and for the rites of hospitality and of 
 neighborly and social fellowship. Under their ministry 
 the festive side of life will not be suppressed or curtailed, 
 but made and kept pure and sweet. There will be for 
 the young and unafflicted none the less, but all the more, 
 of gayety, fun, and frolic, because their gladness will 
 be gratitude, their joy praise, their glee thanksgiving. 
 Under such auspices there may be the condition of 
 society typified by the prophet when he says, " There 
 shall be upon the bells of the horses holiness unto the 
 Lord, and all the vessels in the Lord's house shall be 
 like the bowls before the altar." 
 
 Still more, we want advanced, while Christian, culture 
 for as many women as can obtain it and are capable 
 of it; and this not because we would unsphere women, 
 but because we would have them shine with a beneficent 
 radiance in their own appropriate sphere. Where many 
 men and few women are highly educated, the educated 
 woman is apt to be unsphered, nay, to unsphere herself, 
 — she is a phenomenon, a prodigy, — she takes on a 
 cerulean dye, or assumes masculine airs. But I see no 
 reason why a liberal education should not be at least as 
 common among women as among men. They need it 
 
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 for the professions that are open to them. As to the 
 medical profession, on which so many of them are now 
 entering, they can make good their place in it only by 
 exceeding it in every dimension. No man or woman is 
 fit for a liberal profession whose knowledge does not 
 go far beyond it. A mere specialist, whether man or 
 woman, grows less, and not beautifully less, with advanc- 
 ing years. It demands large and high culture to hold 
 one's own in a calHng which requires constant work of 
 detail. In the office of a teacher, also, there is no limit 
 to the availableness of women who are qualified for it. 
 Other things being equal, they are better teachers than 
 men, — more patient and persevering, and more thoroughly 
 in command of the easiest and surest avenues to the 
 minds of their pupils. Some of the best classical teachers 
 that I have ever known have been women ; and in my 
 early Cambridge days the person to whose tuition sus- 
 pended students, especially in the. upper classes, were 
 consigned in preference to all others, was a woman. 
 The history of the most eminent Italian universities, in 
 their palmy days, gives several instances in which women 
 held with distinguished honor important professorships ; 
 and I am sure that we need not go beyond these walls 
 for an ability to fill the highest of educational offices 
 and trusts, rarely equalled and unsurpassed in any of our 
 colleges. 
 
 But while I say these things because they ought to be 
 said, I am still more solicitous to have it felt that advanced 
 culture is to be sought, not only or chiefly to fit one for 
 an occupation, but to enlarge and exalt the entire inward 
 
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 being. It is of unspeakable benefit to one's own mind 
 and soul, and it enhances indefinitely one's power of 
 influence and usefulness. As in the outward world, so 
 in that of intellect, the higher the air the purer it is. 
 This was never more true than now; for in the lower 
 region of sciolism, and specialism, and the learning that 
 is but self-glorifying ignorance, there hang foul mists of 
 sophistry and delusion, from which the genuine scholar 
 emerges into a clearer light and a more healthful atmos- 
 phere. Nor is there any department in which this is 
 more true than in religion, the supreme interest of every 
 soul. The scepticism of our day is wonderfully plausible, 
 and is getting extended sway, simply because it is super- 
 ficial, and thus has easy hold and convincing power on 
 minds that know little and think less, while profounder 
 knowledge at once sees through it and looks above it. 
 
 But it is time for us to pass from these generalities to 
 the peculiar features of the endowment to which this 
 occasion is specially consecrated. Our friend, who is 
 winning for himself the enduring gratitude of every lover 
 of knowledge, learning, and wisdom, seeks to accomplish 
 the three most important purposes for an educational 
 institution that has the income necessary for self-support. 
 
 I. There is the library, of which every department has 
 for its type, intensified fourfold, Agur's two daughters of 
 the horseleach, crying. Give, give. To say nothing of 
 rare old books and choice editions for which a new 
 library should be on the watch as opportunities arise, 
 the annual issue of books that no library can afford to 
 leave unpurchased is enormously large ; and it is hard to 
 
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 say of any book, new or old, that it will not come into 
 use. One who has- not been engaged in literary, histori- 
 cal, or scientific research can have no idea of the number 
 of books often consulted in the preparation of an essay, 
 discourse, or pamphlet, or of the blank in the author's 
 mind and the void in his work occasioned by the absence 
 of a book which perhaps will not be needed again for 
 years. It may be but a name, or a date, or an isolated 
 fact, or a theory or speculation outgrown and obsolete, 
 yet with a place in history, that the missing book would 
 furnish; but the work in hand craves it, and is incom- 
 plete without it. Then, too, in these fast days, the new 
 is constantly treading on the heels of the old ; and merely 
 to keep up with the progress of learning, art, and science 
 demands a large annual outlay. Now, if all that is to be 
 done here were mere lesson-learning and lesson-hearing, 
 the library would be of small concern. But I trust that 
 subjects, much more than text-books, will be .thoroughly 
 studied here ; that research and investigation will be the 
 habit of the College ; that its students will do sincere and 
 faithful work in whatever they take in hand ; and to this 
 end they must have access, not only to the books which 
 every one knows, at least by title, but to the books less 
 known, often because more recondite, scientific, and com- 
 plete, — such books as are the feeders of more popular 
 treatises, while they reserve much richer food for the 
 inquiring and appreciative reader and scholar. 
 
 2. Next comes the appropriation for scientific appara- 
 tus, which has the two essential offices of giving a realistic 
 comprehension of many things else known but vaguely, 
 
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 and of furnishing the means and the possibility of en- 
 larging the scope of knowledge. In botany, zoology, 
 chemistry, and physics, the printed page is often insuffi- 
 cient, unless the eye can see what the book describes. 
 Then, too, fresh scientific experiments are always of value, 
 hardly less so when unsuccessful than when they succeed ; 
 for every experiment that fails narrows the range of those 
 still to be tried, and he who comes before the world with 
 a triumphant eureka owes his enduring fame very largely 
 to the many who went before him, and sought, but never 
 found. That our friend's generous endowment will fur- 
 nish all desirable facilities for many zealous seekers, we 
 cannot doubt ; and if so, why not for finders, discoverers, 
 inventors, who shall leave their names and work to the 
 ages to come.? 
 
 3. As to the remaining provision, for pensions and 
 sabbatical years, you will suffer me, as a veteran teacher, 
 to give the testimony of an expert. There are no college 
 salaries large enough to permit the accumulation of 
 property. Indeed, one who has no other resource, in 
 order to maintain a family, or to subsidize dependent 
 kindred, is often obliged to do extra and vacation work 
 to eke out an insufficient income. At the same time, the 
 teacher is dependent for teaching power, not wholly on 
 capacity and learning, but perhaps equally on an elasticity 
 of mind, of nerve and muscle, of the vocal organs, and 
 of mien and manner, which is very likely to fail while 
 the vigor of intellect is wholly unimpaired. It is a weary- 
 ing and exhausting profession ; and though there are 
 instances, and illustrious instances — illustrious because 
 
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 SO very few — of a half-century's continuous service, as 
 in the case of two successive Exeter principals, and of 
 Dr. Hopkins, an octogenarian, with a mind and heart as 
 young as when he taught his first class, there are very 
 numerous though unrecorded instances in which a quar- 
 ter of a century has comprised the whole successful 
 portion of a teacher's brilliant career. 
 
 But the need of the pension may be averted or post- 
 poned by the sabbatical year ; and I am glad of the provi- 
 sion that this year shall be devoted not to extra work, 
 but wholly to rest and travel. Permit me here to cite 
 my own experience, which I regard as simply normal, 
 and therefore instructive. I came to Cambridge as a 
 professor in i860. I resigned my office in 1881 ; and I 
 have, since my resignation, though out of harness, done 
 as much hard work as ever in the same time before. I 
 have had during these twenty-six years three seasons of 
 European travel, each of them when I had become very 
 weary and much dispirited. I do not exaggerate when 
 I say that I have each time returned feeling ten years 
 younger, and with an entire restoration of the love of 
 work and the capacity for it, which before I left home had 
 been sensibly impaired ; and under the blessing of a kind 
 Providence I owe it to these vacation seasons, that at my 
 advanced age I am able to stand here to-day in full health 
 and strength, and in the name of the officers of Wellesley 
 College, to thank my friend for the special and pre-emi- 
 nent wisdom of the sabbatical clause in his endowment. 
 
 I am happy now to yield place to those whom you are 
 waiting to hear; but I will yield place to none of them 
 
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 in my dear and high appreciation of the noble and 
 generous heart and hand which have consecrated the 
 outcome of science, skill, industry, and enterprise to a 
 most sacred and blessed service and ministry, and thus 
 have given back to God so goodly a portion of what 
 God has given. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Porter, of the Board of Visitors, read from Professor 
 Horsford's letter to the Trustees the details of the plan by 
 which he wished his benefaction to be administered. 
 
AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE. 
 
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 SCHEME 
 
 Matured and Adopted hy the Trustees in 1886, on the Basis of a Gift 
 made to Wellesley College in 1878. Extract from a Letter to the 
 Trustees, dated Jan. i, 1886. 
 
 I HAVE had opportunity for several years to study the needs of 
 the College. The institution in the last four years has entered 
 upon its system of more complete academic organization ; it has 
 adopted settled rules of procedure. It is desirable that its re- 
 sources should be defined ; and I am prepared to carry into effect 
 the wish expressed by the Founder of the College. 
 
 The wants which I have felt to be pressing include : — 
 
 I. The Library; 
 II. Scientific Apparatus; and 
 III. A System of Pensions. 
 
 Under the head of 
 
 I. THE LIBRARY, 
 I consider, — 
 
 1. The Permanent Fund ; and 
 
 2. The Annual Expenditure. 
 
 I. I direct that one half oi the dividends from the stock which 
 is the subject of gift shall be reserved to be invested, as it is 
 received and as the judgment of the Finance Committee may 
 determine, and the income added to the principal for a period of 
 ten years, — that is, from the year 1 878-79 down to the academic 
 year 1888-89, to constitute a Permanent Fund. 
 
 After ten years' accumulation the income from this invested 
 fund shall be added to the annual appropriation for the expendi- 
 tures for the Library. 
 
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 After the first ten years the half of the dividends received from 
 the stock of this gift shall be invested as before, for another 
 decade, for the further increase of the Permanent Library Fund ; 
 subject, however, to an annual reduction, from the close of the 
 academic year 1 888-89, by the amount of two half-salaries in the 
 interest of Pensions (III.)- 
 
 2. The Annual Expenditure. This shall be, during the first 
 decade, two fifths of the regular dividends from the stock which 
 was the subject of gift. During the second decade it shall be the 
 two fifths of the dividends as above, increased by the returns from 
 the invested Permanent Fund accumulated during the first decade. 
 Thereafter the expenditure will include the two fifths, together 
 with the income from the invested fund accumulated during the 
 first and second decades. 
 
 The expenditure of the annual appropriation for the Library 
 shall be — 
 
 First, for the salaries of the Librarian and assistants ; 
 Second, for books for the Library ; and 
 Third, for binding and repairs. 
 
 Of the sum remaining after the salaries and binding have been 
 provided for, there shall be reserved a certain portion for the pur- 
 chase of exceptional works, to be made by the Librarian under 
 the direction of the Library Council. 
 
 The proportion of this reserve, as well as the general apportion- 
 ment of the appropriation for books for the several departments, 
 shall be in the hands of the Library Council. 
 
 II. SCIENTIFIC APPARATUS. 
 
 I direct that the appropriation for this object be onetenth of the 
 regular dividends from the stock of the gift. 
 
 It will go toward meeting the needs of the departments of 
 Physics, Chemistry, Botany, and Biology, embracing all the cur- 
 rent supplies to be consumed in lectures and in experimental 
 instruction by both instructors and students, as well as in the 
 equipment with apparatus of a more permanent character. 
 
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 If the professors desire to mass apportionments of two years in 
 any individual department to secure more costly scientific appa- 
 ratus, they shall be at liberty to do so. With this condition the 
 apportionment to the several scientific departments of the annual 
 appropriation shall be made by the Library Council. 
 
 Any unexpended appropriation in any of the departments above 
 named will be covered, after two years from its date, into the 
 Permanent Fund for the Library. 
 
 III. SYSTEM OF PENSIONS, 
 including, 
 
 1. The Sabbatical Grant. 
 
 2. Salary Augment and Pension. 
 
 One of the unavoidable conditions of academic life is the ten- 
 dency on the part of teachers to settle into stereotyped modes and 
 forms of instruction. Another is the consequence of the unselfish 
 devotion on the part of the officer to the duties of the chair held, 
 resulting, in some degree in proportion to the success of the in- 
 structor, in the loss of elasticity of spirit, in nervous prostration, 
 or in premature infirmity. The standard of excellence is liable 
 to be lowered. 
 
 All older institutions recognize the sedative and the consuming 
 influence of the service of an instructor; and in many colleges, 
 especially on the Continent of Europe, attempts at plans of allevi- 
 ation have been made. 
 
 The efforts made in this country to attain this end have been in 
 most cases the opposite of conservative. 
 
 The natural method of relief seems to be to provide in this, as 
 in other fields of labor, for periodic rest and recuperation by 
 change. 
 
 I. The Sabbatical Grant, adopted by Harvard College, pro- 
 vides that the professors and assistant professors of the perma- 
 nent staff of instructors may once in seven years be reheved from 
 academic duty for the period of one year, with their half-salaries 
 continued to them. This gives them opportunity to rest or travel 
 or engage in congenial occupation at home. The result is not 
 wholly satisfactory. The rest and renewed strength come in 
 
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 limited degree to those wh,o continue to work at home. The 
 highest advantages are gained to the teachers and to the College 
 when the officers break away from home and employment, and 
 travel abroad (in Europe), taking advantage of their stay to be- 
 come acquainted with the most recent methods in their several 
 departments. 
 
 In the optional arrangement the teacher is mainly considered. 
 I would have the College considered as well ; and make travel and 
 residence abroad, for the Sabbatical Year, a condition of the 
 grant. 
 
 After much thought, in view of all the considerations that seem 
 to me to influence a proper determination, I have decided to pro- 
 vide for a Sabbatical Grant to which a limited number of the offi- 
 cers at the heads of certain departments of instruction shall be 
 eligible. 
 
 It is financially impossible that the privilege should be extended 
 to all who would profit by it, especially from one source. If it 
 were possible, it would be undesirable. 
 
 I leave to other friends of the College the privilege of making 
 like provision for all the departments of art ; and this includes 
 several most important branches of the college course, presided 
 over by ladies every way worthy of the most generous co-opera- 
 tion. It embraces music and every form of the arts of design and 
 their literature, elocution, the gymnasium, and the great field of 
 hygiene. 
 
 I leave for other friends of the College the assistant instructors 
 in the several departments, to whom I hope some one will early 
 find it in his or her ability and wish to extend the prospect of the 
 Sabbatical Year. 
 
 The officers I include are : — 
 
 The President. 
 
 The Professor of Greek. The Professor of EngKsh Language 
 " " " Latin. and Rhetoric. 
 
 " " " Mathematics. " " " Mental and Moral 
 " " " Physics. Philosophy. 
 
 " " " Chemistry. " " " History. 
 
 " " " Botany. " " " German. 
 
 " " " Zoology. " " " French. 
 " " " English Literature. " Librarian. 
 
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 To each of the heads of the above, departments the Sabbatical 
 Grant contemplates that every seventh year of her academic ser- 
 vice from a given date, she shall be eligible to have, with the 
 approbation of the Trustees, a year's leave of absence, to be 
 passed in Europe, and with it her half-yearly salary. 
 
 If for any reason an eligible officer declines the Sabbatical 
 Year, the grant in her case may be offered to another equally 
 eligible ; or, in the absence of such opportunity, the specific grant, 
 with one exception hereinafter mentioned, will be covered into the 
 Permanent Fund of the Library. 
 
 In case of resignation, the successor having been an instructor 
 of subordinate rank in the College for the requisite time will be 
 eligible to the Sabbatical Year that would have fallen to her pre- 
 decessor. 
 
 Of these half-salaries, that of the Librarian will come from the 
 annual appropriation for the Library. The half-salaries for the 
 remaining fourteen officers will, after 1888-89, be taken, as already 
 indicated, from the gross reserved half of the dividend from this 
 gift, the remainder of which half only will go to increase the 
 Permanent Fund for the Library. 
 
 The Sabbatical Grant regards the interests of the College and 
 the officer alike. When the third Sabbatical Year shall have 
 passed, I suggest, in the discretion of the Trustees, another meas- 
 ure, involving, as I conceive, the best interests of the College and 
 of the instructor, but recognizing also the fact of loyal service. 
 I propose this measure in the following terms : — 
 
 2. Salary Augment and Pensions. After an officer shall 
 have been in continuous service of the College for twenty-one 
 years, and shall have received at least two Sabbatical Grants, her 
 salary shall be increased from whatever it may have been before, 
 by one hundred dollars annually for five years, after which it shall 
 not be further increased from this source. 
 
 The beneficiary shall be at liberty to retire any year after her 
 twenty-second of service, and have for life annually the augment 
 of her last year's salary. From the twenty-sixth year of service, 
 should she resign, she will, with the approbation of the Trustees, 
 receive a pension of five hundred dollars a year for life. The 
 
26 LIBRARY FESTIVAL 
 
 decision as to whether she shall continue longer to hold her pro- 
 fessional chair shall rest with the Trustees. 
 
 This Salary Augment and Pension will be drawn, like the Sab- 
 batical Grant, from the gross reserved half of the annual dividend 
 from this gift, after the second decade, the remainder going to in- 
 crease the Permanent Library Fund. 
 
 I desire to add a single special provision more. The Trustees 
 shall have authority in their discretion, from time to time, from 
 the remainders of the Sabbatical Grant, to provide funds for any 
 officer or recent graduate whom they may select, to enable her to 
 better qualify herself by a year's study abroad for contemplated 
 appointment in the College service. 
 
 The offices contemplated in the grants and pensions must be 
 held by ladies. 
 
 ADMINISTRATION OF THE LIBRARY. 
 
 It is to be hoped and expected that, as in the case of Harvard, 
 private libraries will from time to time be left by bequest to the 
 College, and not improbably, occasional if not frequent special 
 gifts, both of books and money. The annual increase by purchase 
 will in a few years (naturally) greatly swell the number and value 
 of our books. It may reasonably be expected that the Library 
 will soon be adequately equipped for the current necessities of 
 the College. 
 
 The end of making it in the highest degree useful, in saving the 
 time of those who seek its advantages, is steadily kept in view. 
 
 When the equipment and classification and cataloguing and 
 analytical indexes shall have been brought to include all the prin- 
 cipal divisions of the Library, and we shall have entered upon the 
 expected larger annual appropriations, we may fairly expect that, 
 like the Harvard, John Carter Brown, Lenox, Astor, and Yale, 
 and other large and older libraries, ours will, besides meeting the 
 wants of the College, have it in its power to open its collections 
 for purposes of research to persons not otherwise connected with 
 the College. 
 
 Should the interests of Bibliography, as connected with the 
 College, require service additional to that of the present staff, 
 
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 adequate financial provision for it will exist after three years, in 
 the annual appropriation for the Library. 
 
 I desire that the salary of the Librarian be increased by the 
 total of one half of the sum she now receives, in equal annual ad- 
 vances during the coming three academic years. 
 
 I further desire that, should the present incumbent with ad- 
 vancing years prefer a life of less labor, she be permitted, when- 
 ever she wishes, to retire from her charge, with a pension 'of one 
 third of her increased salary for life. 
 
 Should the Trustees deem it for the best interests of the 
 Library to create the office of Superintendent and Lecturer on 
 Bibliography, the salary of the Librarian shall continue at the 
 maximum indicated above so long as she continues to hold the 
 office. 
 
 For the coming three years I ask permission to provide for the 
 augmentation of the Librarian's salary. Thereafter it will come 
 from the annual appropriation for the Library. 
 
 The objects and plans of expenditure which I have presented 
 in the foregoing do not contemplate any encroachment upon the 
 dividends of the gift to be set apart for the Permanent Fund, 
 until after ten years shall have elapsed from the year of the gift. 
 
 But as I desire to see in some degree the fruit of these plans 
 while I live, and as I would like for various reasons to mark the 
 opening year of the second decade in the history of the College, I 
 ask permission to expedite the first Sabbatical Year by three 
 years, so that it will commence with the academic year of 1886-87. 
 
 I find that a number of the officers eligible to the Sabbatical 
 Grant have recently passed a year or more abroad. Two are 
 absent now. Of those who remain, all of whom are or will be 
 eligible, I request the privilege of offering to the Trustees the half- 
 salaries of two officers for the coming year, two for the next, and 
 two for the year following, — six in all. 
 
 The best interests of the College would, I conceive, be promoted 
 by including the President in the first year, the Professor of 
 
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 Mathematics in the second, and the Professor of Physics in the 
 third. The additional beneficiary in each year I desire to ask the 
 Trustees to name. 
 
 As this letter is not written for publication, I may say that it is 
 my conviction that among the effects of these measures of recog- 
 nition and appreciation, besides the added strength gained to the 
 staff of officers, and the enhanced value of service to their classes, 
 the College may some day be found to be possessed of an untitled 
 but virtual Academic Senate, — an Upper House, — holding their 
 seats without election, in their own right, rich in the memory and 
 the consciousness of having long and loyally devoted themselves 
 to the highest of human pursuits. They will have passed the best 
 of their lives in the habitual fulfilment of noble tasks, in the inter- 
 change of mutual services and courtesies and trusts, a body rev- 
 erenced and cherished, of dignity and grace, — somewhat apart, — 
 a treasury of the traditions of the College life, a source of wisdom 
 in council to the governing board, and a bulwark to the name and 
 fame of Wellesley. It will be one of their privileges for many 
 years, we may hope, as they from time to time return to the scenes 
 of their activity, to tell to grateful students of having seen and 
 known the founders of their Alma Mater. 
 
 Miss Florence Homer, of the senior class, was called on 
 to speak for the undergraduates, which she did in the following 
 original poem : — 
 
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 AN ANCIENT LEGEND. 
 
 BY FLORENCE E. HOMER. 
 
 YOU who are learned in curious lore, 
 And over old legends have laughed and sighed, 
 Did you ever hear the whimsical tale 
 Of the old, gray woodman and his bride .' 
 
 T was a huntsman passed the woodman's door : 
 " Good-morrow to you, young huntsman bold ! 
 
 And whither away this springtide fair .' " 
 
 Quoth the huntsman, " My errand is quickly told. 
 
 " I journey far, to the haunts of men ; 
 
 I go to seek me a fair young bride." 
 At this the woodman seized his arm. 
 
 And, " Tarry a moment first ! " he cried. 
 
 From the cottage he brought him a kerchief gay. 
 
 " Marry, young huntsman, listen to me : 
 About whose neck this scarf be tied. 
 
 Thy willing and loving bride is she. 
 
 " Nay, seize it not in such eager haste ; 
 
 Another word I have for thee : 
 If I lend thee the kerchief, — mark thou well, — 
 
 Thou must also find a bride for me." 
 
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 The hunter thanked the woodman old, 
 Then sped on his way, and left him there. 
 
 " My bride must be fair," he heard him call ; 
 And the wood-birds echoed, " Be fair ! be fair ! " 
 
 A year rolled fast o'er the forest gray. 
 
 The old man waited silently. 
 Till at last one morning adown the glade 
 
 Came the hunter, merrily singing a glee ; 
 
 A maid at his right, and a maid at his left, . 
 
 Fair and fresh as maid might be. 
 " And take thy kerchief, and take thy bride. 
 
 With a huntsman's thanks, good man," quoth he. 
 
 The old man kissed his girlish bride, 
 But never a smile on his face was seen. 
 
 A strange old man was that woodman gray, 
 Strangest in all the wood, I ween. 
 
 His fair young bride, she loved him well. 
 She loved and served him faithfully ; 
 
 And every night, at the cottage door, 
 She welcomed his coming joyfully. 
 
 But as daily she marked his growing years. 
 His lingering step and his snow-white head. 
 
 The cheer of her life was changed to gloom. 
 For there grew in her heart a dismal dread. 
 
 " Oh, woe is me ! Good father mine. 
 
 Thy days may not be many here ; 
 And if thou diest, I too must die. 
 
 Alone in the wood with grief and fear." 
 
 " Fear not, good child ! I shall not die ; 
 
 With death and the dead I have no part. 
 For no man dies till his heart is dead. 
 
 And he is secure that hath no heart." 
 
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 She looked at her lord with sorrowful eyes, 
 
 Then wonderingly to his side drew near : 
 " Oh, father, tell me, tell me, pray. 
 
 Where is thy heart, if it be not here ? " 
 
 " My heart, good child ! and wilt thou know ? 
 
 My heart, my heart that is mine no more, 
 It is (and what shall I tell her now ?) 
 
 In the casement over our cottage door." 
 
 Forth in the forest the maiden went. 
 
 Her bare white feet were wet with dew ; 
 The fairest flowers of the wood she brought, 
 
 And bound them in garlands the long day through. 
 
 And she waited at night his returning feet, 
 
 And showed him the door, all bright with bloom, 
 
 With drooping vines and blossoms gay. 
 Filling the air with their rich perfume. 
 
 " Now, father, thy heart is glad, I trow," 
 
 She cried, and smiled in his silent face. 
 " Thou art a good child," he answered slow, 
 
 But he smiled not back at her innocent grace. 
 
 " My heart is long from my bosom gone ; 
 
 Thou may' St not find it in this our cot, 
 And if thou searchest the forest through, 
 
 In all the wood thou wilt find it not." 
 
 Then the maide.n wept and sorrowed sore : 
 " Good father, thou hast been false to me ; 
 
 Thou hast a heart, and wilt surely die, 
 And all my fear is come back to me." 
 
 " Far, far from here, in a solitude 
 
 Older than living man can tell. 
 Stands a silent church, with close-barred doors, 
 
 And ever within it my heart doth dwell." 
 
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 Then the maiden pondered long and deep : 
 " I will seek the hunter," she said at last. 
 
 " He wanders wide, and will find for me 
 This gray old church, with its doors barred fast." 
 
 So she sought the hunter's forest home. 
 And told him her tale in eager haste, 
 
 Till the hunter vowed he would do her will, 
 Whatever might be the odds he faced. 
 
 So the hunter roamed the wide world through, 
 And found at the end the church so old ; 
 
 And before the might of the girl's desire 
 Yielded the bars so hard and cold. 
 
 The hunter threw wide the windows tall. 
 
 And let the gracious sunlight in. 
 And the wind blew softly through, and brought 
 
 Fragrance and freshness where gloom had been. 
 
 And now that the doors were opened broad, 
 
 All suddenly on the air there fell. 
 Floating down from the lofty tower, 
 
 The tones of the ancient chapel bell. 
 
 And every one heard that blessed chime, 
 And came to the valley from far and near ; 
 
 And once again in the woodland church 
 They knelt to worship in godly fear. 
 
 And the maiden bride was glad and gay, 
 With a constant joy in her fair young face ; 
 
 For now she had gained her soul's desire. 
 And had cheered his heart in its hiding-place. 
 
 The legend was ended ; I closed my book. 
 
 She made glad the place where he hid his heart ; 
 So will we do, I mused aloud. 
 
 Till out of our love he can never depart. 
 
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 We will garland the walls where a heart is hid, 
 Where a treasure is laid with lavish hand ; 
 
 There will we set up his name in joy, 
 And make it the praise of all the land. 
 
 And our hearts, like the heart of the maid in the tale, 
 In the years to come shall know no fears ; 
 
 For who shrines his heart in our midst to-day 
 Shall live to us through the endless years. 
 
 After a facetious introduction, in which he feigned to believe 
 that the ancient Hebrew history was reversed in these days, — 
 that, instead of the Queens of Sheba coming to Solomon for 
 words of wisdom, the Solomons come to the Queens of Sheba, 
 and declare the half has not been told, — and a happy allusion 
 to the occasion of the Festival, Dr. Abbott spoke substantially 
 as follows : — 
 
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 LIBRARY FESTIVAL 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 BY THE REV. LYMAN ABBOTT, D.D. 
 
 A BOOK may be an ornament, a tool, or a friend. 
 '^ As an ornament it lies on the parlor table, and 
 enters into competition with a vase of flowers, a plaque, 
 a Japanese monstrosity, a Turkish table-cloth, or what- 
 not, or lines the wall in a set of shelves, and serves 
 as an expensive wall-paper. There is no objection to 
 books as ornaments for those people who can afEord 
 literary bric-a-brac, and like that sort of thing. As a 
 tool the book belongs in the scholastic workshop. It 
 is professional. The boy's school-books are tools; the 
 woman's cook-books are tools; the minister's commen- 
 taries are tools; the lawyer's reports are tools; Web- 
 ster's Dictionary is a tool. Every perfectly equipped 
 house ought to have a carpenter's shop, — and the master 
 of the house pught to know how to use it, — cooking 
 schools for girls, and carpenter shops or garden beds, 
 or both, for boys. So every house ought to have its 
 literary tool-shop, its library of books for literary labor, 
 its intellectual carpenter's shop; its books of reference, 
 — dictionary, geography, cyclopaedia. But the highest 
 use of a book is as a companion and a friend. You 
 are not particular as to the binding ; for though you 
 like to see your friend well clad, the tailor does not 
 
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 make the man ; neither does the bookbinder make the 
 book. A ten-cent edition of an English classic may be 
 a friend. You do not inquire as to utility. The most 
 useful books are those which can give no account of 
 their usefulness. The highest use of a friend is his 
 friendship, and in some respects a friendly book is the 
 very best of friends. Speech is silver, silence is golden. 
 A book is a bimetallic friend; it virill give you either 
 silver speech or golden silence, as you prefer. I sit 
 by my firelight dreaming, with my friend in my hand. 
 " Come, come," I say to him at last, " you are silent 
 and I am weary; talk to me, amuse me." And he 
 answers not my petulance with reproach, but looks with 
 kindly face into my eyes, and talks. At last I weary 
 of him. "You talk too much," I say, and turn from 
 him. He stops as quietly as he began, relapses into 
 silence, and breathes no complaint of my unreasonable 
 mood. A book is never jealous, never suspicious. It 
 asks no attentions. It never pouts or sulks because you 
 prefer another book. It never reproaches you with — 
 " I thought you had quite forgotten me." I cannot pet 
 my cat without a remonstrance from my dog; but I 
 can choose any book out of my library with no look 
 or word of reproach from its companions. It exacts 
 nothing. Conversation is give and take ; but reading is 
 all take. The book demands of you only one thing — 
 attention. That you must give, or it closes its lips and 
 is resolutely silent. Indeed, the generosity of this friend 
 is its worst fault. Beware ! or it will make you selfish. 
 Your true book-lover is in danger of not being a true 
 
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 lover of his kind. There is one virtue no book can 
 cultivate in the soul, — the virtue of self-denial. 
 
 The book as a friend is a living soul. Some one has 
 said that a cathedral is "frozen music." A good book 
 is embodied and undying spirit. It is the thought and 
 experience of a noble nature crystallized and endowed 
 with an earthly immortality. It is the touch of a van- 
 ished soul. It is a voice come back from the unseen 
 world. On the titlepage of every true book might be 
 inscribed the words : " Being dead he yet speaketh." 
 Carlyle, the great talker, pours unmeasured contempt 
 upon talk ; and that which is mere talk deserves his fine 
 scorn, all of it ; yet what is that scorn itself but talk .? 
 " Words ! mere words ! " Ay ! and yet there is nothing 
 so immortal as a true word. " Heaven and earth shall 
 pass away," says Jesus of Nazareth, "but my words 
 shall not pass away." Mere vibrations of the air he 
 set in motion ; yet their music has been encircling the 
 globe ever since. Frost cannot bite them, nor sun 
 burn them, nor damp mildew them, nor rain wash them 
 away, nor steam wreck them. Empires have risen 
 and set, civilizations come and gone, cities been built 
 and crumbled to the dust, even languages have died and 
 been buried, and yet these words still live ; and, as the 
 centuries go by, a constantly increasing congregation 
 reverently gathers about the sacred speaker on the grassy 
 slope of the Galilean hill, and listens to the words that 
 can never die. Words are immortal because a soul lives 
 in them. A good book is immortal because it is an 
 incarnate soul. In the presence of a great book I am in 
 
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 37 
 
 the presence of a great nature. He is an artist ; and he 
 lends me his eyes with which to look into Nature and 
 read her mysteries. He is a poet ; and I, too, am a poet 
 in his companionship, and endowed with his insight. 
 He is a novelist ; and as I .sit with him my heart throbs 
 with his profound sympathies. He is an historian ; and 
 I live in another epoch ; or a philosopher, and his broad 
 horizon opens before me, and I am on the top of an 
 exceeding high mountain, and all the kingdoms of nature 
 and of truth are in a panorama before me ; they are 
 mine without the devil's condition attached. 
 
 There is no better gift than a book ; only see to it 
 that you give, not an ornament nor a tool, but a friend. 
 The worst book for a gift is a gift-book. Never give 
 a book on theology to a minister, nor a law book to a 
 lawyer, nor a medical book to a doctor, nor a school- 
 book to a boy. Give a friend, not a tool ; a kindly soul, 
 not a useful instrument. Of course, if you are to do 
 this, you must learn something of him to whom you 
 give the book, that you may know what kind of friends 
 he likes. Books, I have said, will be silent or will speak, 
 as you prefer. Now let me reverse that sentence, and 
 declare that books are a law unto themselves ; and some 
 books which are full of life in one pair of hands are 
 absolutely silent in another. Carlyle is a fiery and im- 
 pulsive talker to me ; but there are some good friends 
 of mine to whom he will say nothing. He is as glum 
 and silent in their presence as he often used to be in his 
 own household. Wordsworth is a delightful friend to 
 those who are friendly with him. But let a man gibe at 
 
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 his commonplaces, and he closes his lips tightly, and 
 will not open them. See to it that your book goes where 
 it will receive a warm reception, and where it will exer- 
 cise its friendly offices. Do not give Wordsworth to a 
 man who sees no parable in Nature ; nor Carlyle to one 
 who is offended by a sharp tongue and a brusque man- 
 ner ; nor Dickens to a cynic ; nor Emerson to a " practical 
 man ; " nor Ruskin to a philosopher. It requires skill 
 to select a congenial friend. Your bookseller cannot do 
 it for you. Shopping will not accomplish it. 
 
 We read books too little as friends ; we use them too 
 much as tools. The same book cannot well be both; 
 certainly not at the same time. You cannot go to it for 
 useful service and friendly converse at the same reading. 
 Your doctor may be your best friend ; but consultation 
 over a headache and friendly converse are not the same. 
 Every man ought to have time to take up a book in a 
 receptive mood, and listen to its message. He ought 
 to go sometimes to his books as he goes out in his yard 
 in the morning to hear the birds sing ; not as he goes to 
 the newspaper to get the last news. The most fruitful 
 reading is meditative reading. What a book will be to 
 you will depend upon what you are to the book ; that 
 is, upon your mood. Some persons read books as men 
 ride across a country on a hunt : the only object is to 
 get in at the death in the shortest possible time. This 
 is the way very young persons read novels. Some per- 
 sons read books as they go to market : they know what 
 they want to get, and go to the book or to the library 
 to get it. This is the way professional men read their 
 
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 professional books. Some men read books by stint : so 
 many pages a day, and give themselves a college mark 
 of lo when the task is done. The most fruitful reading 
 is that virhich seems to take the least out of the book, 
 and which stimulates the most in the reader. He who 
 can tell what he has read does very well ; but he who 
 can tell what he has thought does better. He who can 
 give account of the author's thoughts is a scholar ; he 
 who can give account of his own is a thinker. The 
 best friend is he who stirs me most deeply to my own 
 thinking and my own feeling. The best teacher is a 
 friend ; and the best pupil is he whose heart is open to 
 receive a friendly suggestion and a friendly impulse. 
 Curiosity is a good reader ; conscience is a better reader ; 
 but love is the best reader of all. And he who reads with 
 neither love, conscience, nor curiosity does not read at 
 all. A library is a gift of life. You, the students of 
 Wellesley, are to take it and multiply it. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Alexander McKenzie then spoke in behalf of the 
 Trustees of the College. 
 
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 ADDRESS. 
 
 BY THE REV. ALEXANDER McKENZIE, D.D. 
 
 T WOULD not interrupt the words of grateful con- 
 gratulation which belong to this day; but, happily, 
 the work which one man has wrought brings together the 
 works of many other men, and finds its opportunity and 
 reward in this. The day belongs with other days. It is 
 fine to stand among the givers of books, and to think of 
 that which they have accomplished. Their work has 
 been wise, vital, permanent. The list here is long and is 
 now worthily crowned. It has the greater worth that it 
 belongs here. 
 
 A library is always an impressive place. The library 
 of a college is doubly impressive. One feels like tread- 
 ing softly, and speaking in low and reverent tones. A 
 library is the meeting-place of select spirits ; the trysting- 
 ground of the immortals. They come, not in the gloom 
 of the evening alone, but in the brightness of the noon- 
 day. Here one is " in the lap of eternity, among divine 
 souls." 
 
 The library extends the college life in every direction. 
 It unites the ages. We cannot crowd the centuries into 
 four years, but we can compress the heart of the cen- 
 turies. Events are too numerous and bulky to find room 
 for themselves within our academic walls ; but the spirits 
 
AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE. 41 
 
 which have possessed and controlled the events need but 
 a narrow space, and they come together when one is cun- 
 ning enough to summon them. Nothing is more marked 
 in our personal and public annals than the repetitions. 
 A few principles appear and reappear ; assert themselves, 
 discharge their mission, and come again for a new audi- 
 ence. These constant truths are of more account than 
 the changing forms. These truths are set in books and 
 mustered on the library shelves. Whatever we may 
 think of the transmigration of souls from body to body, 
 the passage of spirits from event to event is beyond ques- 
 tion. We seek the few spirits and find them in our books. 
 If they were not there, the hopelessness of study would be 
 appalling. We have a use for names and dates, as for 
 fences, and boundary lines, and monuments. But we hold 
 them of less account than the living truths which move 
 about them. Principles are fewer and grander than illus- 
 trations. For this reason, brief and hurried as life is, we 
 can bring ourselves into acquaintance with all the years, 
 and walk familiarly with the masters, teachers, workers, 
 up and down the highways of the world. 
 
 " A thousand million lives are his 
 Who carries the world in his sympathies." 
 
 A library is therefore a place of large freedom. We are 
 lifted among the spirits, while our mind leaps over the 
 boundaries and presses beyond the walls. It was not an 
 absurdity, or a truism, which was expressed in the keen 
 testimony, that " he saw so far beyond the mere facts of a 
 case, that really it was superfluous to know them." 
 
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 LIBRARY FESTIVAL 
 
 The college library is the true Norumbega, a point of 
 land between two seas ; on the one side washed by the 
 waters of all the centuries which have been, while on the 
 other side the light from its open windows streams over 
 the broader seas of the ages which are to be. 
 
 It is a great gift which is given to a college when its 
 library is founded and furnished. With a great price 
 have ardent students, eager seekers for truth, men and 
 women athirst for knowledge, bought the privilege of 
 communing with great thinkers, and coming into fellowship 
 with the emancipated spirits of events. We can imagine 
 the delight of the young Agassiz when Schinz trusted 
 him with the key to his library, and let him revel among 
 the books. But more suggestive is the picture when we 
 see the youth copying with his own hand books which he 
 must own and could not buy, though the price was but a 
 dollar. 
 
 The soul of a scholar glows in the words of the young 
 Erasmus in his letters from Paris : " I have given up my 
 whole soul to Greek learning, and as soon as I get any 
 money I shall buy Greek books ; and then I shall buy 
 some clothes." That single word " then " is the witness 
 to the scholar. 
 
 Our proud Historical Society sits among the books 
 and beneath the portrait of an old man who leaned on 
 the table of George Ticknor, and told the story of his 
 youth : " When I was twenty-eight years old I had never 
 been anything better than a journeyman leather-dresser; 
 I had never had more than twenty-five dollars a month ; 
 I had never paid five dollars to be carried from one place 
 
AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE. 43 
 
 to another ; I had never owned a pair of boots ; I had 
 never paid a penny to go to the play or to see a sight ; but 
 I owned above six hundred volumes of good books, well 
 bound." There is abundant evidence that a man will get 
 books, if he sets his heart upon it. But it is an inestimable 
 advantage to have the scholarly passion able to search the 
 books and master the thoughts which are enshrined in 
 them, without the painful expenditure of precious time 
 in the effort to procure the books and hold them in the 
 hand. We prize what we have toiled for ; but room enough 
 is left for toil when the book has been gained. Time, 
 thought, learning, strength, life, all are included in the gift 
 of a book to a student ; are multiplied beyond all esti- 
 mate in the gift of a hbrary to a college. 
 
 It is an essential part of the college. Next to the liv- 
 ing teacher it is the essential part. Our great admiral 
 was wont to load his ships by the head. So must a school 
 be loaded. We are fortunate here, where it is hardly a 
 dream that we dwell in marble halls. But these stately 
 buildings, these gentle hills and broad meadows, where 
 sight and faith see cottage and chapel among the trees ; 
 the sparkling waves of Waban water, fair in the moonlight, 
 and joyful with the glad song and the merry oar, — these 
 are not the College. They are her home. They are the 
 robes she wears. But the heart of the College is among 
 her books, where wisdom waits upon the wise, and the 
 wise fill their lamps or ever they venture forth to en- 
 lighten the world. I do not mean volumes only. There 
 is more in our minds to-day. Wisdom enters into steel 
 and brass; looks through the crystal walls where it 
 
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 LIBRARY FESTIVAL 
 
 consents to dwell ; indulges the delicate mechanism which 
 measures light and thought, and joins the unseen to the 
 seen. There be many kinds of books, and they are em- 
 braced in the gift we celebrate. The statutes of the Lord 
 are right, and His commandment is pure. But, also, the 
 heavens declare His glory, and the firmament sheweth 
 His handy-work. The teaching by word and the teaching 
 by work belong in the college life, and now move forward 
 side by side. 
 
 It is rare honor to be the keepers of such treasures. 
 The librarians are far more. They are in choice com- 
 panionship. They have the confidence of the Truth, 
 and know where it dwells, and where it walks, and the 
 places where it hides. They are its friends, messen- 
 gers, interpreters ; the angels who stand in the pres- 
 ence of the King. As we have translated liber into 
 book, why should we not translate " librarian " into some 
 form which should mean the book-giver ; the book giving 
 itself t 
 
 It is to be remembered that this college, in all its pur- 
 poses and endowments, is for service. The one thought 
 looks down upon us from the walls, — to minister. The 
 doors open inward that life may be given here, and open 
 outward that the enlarged life may be given to the world. 
 Munificent as the gifts have been, the largest are made 
 by those who give their life. The years, so full of hope 
 and daring and high intent, which have in them the com- 
 ing years, and all which lies beyond ; whose value cannot 
 be computed, whose place can never be supplied; the 
 years which are brought to the college and placed under 
 
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 her control, that she may work her will in them ; these 
 are the great gifts. There is a wise proverb, " He that 
 would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry 
 out the wealth of the Indies." 
 
 The greatest gift which belongs with these books is the 
 life which will be bestowed upon them. They must be 
 read, studied, appropriated. Thought must be given to 
 them before thought can be drawn from them. The liv- 
 ing spirit must be wooed and won; persuaded to make 
 its home in another mind and heart. A book is not ours 
 because we have paid the publisher, or have found it 
 where a friendly hand left it within our reach. Its 
 thought becomes our thought: then the book is ours. 
 It matters little who wrote it, or when it sprang from his 
 mind. It must be written over to-day and in our own 
 writing. Events are reduced to a common date. The 
 eager mind, translating all things into its own language, 
 and transferring all things to its own time, feels the lines 
 between the centuries hardly more than the keel feels the 
 meridians over which it glides. When we inquired of 
 Mr. Emerson concerning the authorship of a certain 
 phrase, he said, " What care we who sung this or that ? 
 It is we at last who sing." 
 
 Books are generous, considerate, patient; but they 
 cleave to us. The volume we can put back on the shelf, 
 but the book stays with us. It goes where we go, rests 
 when we rest. Almost like the divine Providence, it is 
 
 " never so far off 
 As even to be near." 
 
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 Much more than this is to be said. Books come into this 
 college to go out enriched by the life into which they have 
 entered. Life hastens forth to give life. The wide world 
 lies before the college gates. I know that he in whose 
 work we rejoice will be more glad of this than of any- 
 thing besides. When the words which we are speaking, 
 and the songs which we are singing, have become a mem- 
 ory ; when the gracious, genial influences of this day are 
 resting serenely in the mind and spirit where they will 
 have choice companionship ; I am sure that my friend, 
 neighbor, parishioner, to whom all my heart goes out, will 
 be glad beyond everything else for the good which he has 
 done ; for the immortality of his gifts ; for the continual 
 service which they will render as the years move on. For 
 these books are not given after the law of an earthly, 
 changing, vanishing commandment, " but after the power 
 of an endless life." 
 
 Over this broad land, in its homes and its schools, in 
 its cities and on its prairies ; where the dark continent 
 lies between two seas ; where the slender crescent widens 
 with light ; where the far orient waits for the rising sun ; 
 where over the coral isles rises the morning star ; there 
 shall these books, incarnate in these lives, give light and 
 life. Their line will go out through all the earth, and 
 their words to the end of the world. This is the meaning 
 of the day. This is the purpose which binds the liberal 
 thought of the present to the thought which the college 
 is and evermore shall be. 
 
 I may not end these simple words, standing in the 
 midst of the multiplying books, greeting them while they 
 
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 fly as the doves to their windows, until I have recalled 
 the purpose of the founder of the College, and of all who 
 have builded with him, and of those who have given their 
 life to the house ; until I have said, what every one has been 
 saying to himself, that the College rests upon a book, — 
 one book, — to which we give no other name but that. It 
 is The Book. Within it are wisdom and truth. The 
 deepest principles of philosophy, the changeless verities 
 of history, the profound teachings of science, all are there 
 with a literature unsurpassed for grandeur and beauty, 
 with songs which are never excelled, with the lives of 
 heroes and saints, with the Life which is the Light of 
 Men. They have the beginnings of all learning who know 
 The Book. They have the laws of all worlds. They 
 are instructed unto the kingdom of heaven, which is be- 
 yond "the splendid stars," and is among us where we live 
 and work. To know the Bible is to have a liberal educa- 
 tion. He was right into whose labor we have entered, 
 and we are right who keep his corner-stone in its place, 
 and build upon it and around it. 
 
 There is one Master, so he would say, so he did say 
 in tones which we can never lose. Whose college this 
 is, he bade us always remember. When Colet founded 
 his Grammar School beside St. Paul's, he placed over 
 the master's chair the image of the child Jesus, and wrote 
 beneath, " Hear ye Him." Above this college, above 
 every chair, over every path, over every book. He has 
 His place. The saintly hand which reaches from the 
 clear sky into which we gaze, the hand of every benefac- 
 tor, the hand of the teacher, the hand of the scholar, — 
 
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 these all point steadily to the enthroned One, and the 
 voices of heaven and earth blend in reverence and adora- 
 tion while they cry, Hear ye Him! 
 
 Professor Horsford, after a song by the Beethoven Society, 
 came forward, all the audience spontaneously rising to do him 
 honor, and read the following address : — 
 
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 ADDRESS. 
 
 BY PROF. EBEN NORTON HORSFORD. 
 
 T AM not insensible to these assurances of appre- 
 ciation. I wish I might think myself worthy of 
 them. 
 
 I do not esteem it lightly that there are represented 
 here the Trustees of the College, the source of our 
 power; the Board of Visitors, the shield alike of the pub- 
 lic and the College, of sound learning and healthful prog- 
 ress ; the President and Faculty, of whose services and 
 fitness I might bear testimony if this were the time and 
 place, and I might venture, in the fealty I own, to approach 
 the theme with such poor utterance as mine ; the friends 
 who lend their presence on such a day as this ; the classes 
 that for the coming three years will throng these halls ; 
 and the Seniors, who chose me to honorary membership 
 in their Freshman year, — my own class, now about to bear 
 away with their diplomas the respect and affection and 
 the benediction of all who have known them. 
 
 I cannot, I think, mistake the proprieties of the occa- 
 sion if I take advantage of it to say a word, more espe- 
 cially to the ladies of the College, of how I come to be 
 here. 
 
 My earliest associations with these grounds date back 
 more than thirty years. I had been invited, on some 
 
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 occasion of professional counsel, when as a chemist I met 
 one of the most distinguished of the leaders of the Boston 
 Bar, to pass a summer holiday at the cottage near the 
 conservatory. The questions raised were discussed and 
 determined. After breakfast my host and I strolled along 
 the lake shore to the elevation where this edifice stands, 
 and where we long looked out on the exquisite expanse 
 of water and woodland beyond. My friend spoke of it as 
 the seat of a future home. There were three who then 
 bore his name. I recall the thought of the sweet com- 
 panionship of books in the depth of the quiet that then 
 prevailed here, and the charm of a library commanding 
 such an outlook. I was enchanted with the beauty, the 
 dignity, the repose of the landscapes that opened up. at 
 every turn. 
 
 We wandered on across the ravine to the grounds of 
 the western gate lodge, and by another way over the hill 
 and site of Norumbega, till we came where now stands 
 the noble monument to the munificence of Valeria Stone. 
 There in the shadows of the evergreens we lay down on the 
 carpet of pine fohage and talked, — I remember it well, — 
 talked long of the problems of life ; of the things worth 
 living for ; of the hidden ways of Providence, as well as 
 the subtle ways of men ; of the few who rule, and are not 
 always recognized ; of the many who are led, and are not 
 always conscious of it ; of the survival of the fittest in the 
 battles of life, and of the constant presence of the Infinite 
 Pity; of the difficulties, the resolution, the struggle, the 
 conquest that make up the history of every worthy 
 achievement. 
 
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 I arose with the feeling that I had been taken into the 
 confidence of one of the most gifted of all the men it had 
 been my privilege to know. We had not talked of friend- 
 ship ; we had been unconsciously planting deep its seed. 
 He lived to illustrate its strength and its steadfastness to 
 me. He lived to find in the devotion of his gifts to the 
 building up of this Institution a relief from bereavement 
 too sacred to be named. I have lived to appreciate and 
 to reverence the grandeur of the work he accomplished 
 here. He had done me the honor from time to time 
 to ask my counsel. He had expressed a wish that I 
 might feel interested in the prosperity of the College to 
 which he gave his fortune and his life. The wish was 
 welcomed. It ran with my sympathies. The sympathies 
 grew with indulgence, as I saw rising on the banks of the 
 Charles — loyal always to learning and to conscience — a 
 new institution, born of sacrifice as of old, and dedicated in 
 prayer and faith to the education of women. These were 
 the tried conditions of promise of good for the name of 
 Massachusetts. Perhaps I may also confess that my heart 
 was in full accord with the wish of my friend. 
 
 You have the secret of my regard for Wellesley. 
 
 To the surviving founder, whose never-sleeping sense 
 of duty runs on in loyalty to the most precious of memo- 
 ries, I desire to express my gratitude for permission in a 
 humble way to try to help her. 
 
 To the officers of instruction how much I owe ! 
 
 It has been intimated to me that a recent letter to the 
 Trustees betrayed thoughtful consideration of the interests 
 of Wellesley that was grateful to you. Mine has been 
 
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 the great privilege. It is true that time was given to find 
 how I might serve you. That you think there is promise 
 that the result will lessen your soHcitude for the future, 
 and increase your strength for the daily duties you so 
 loyally fulfil, I am happy in believing. Some of you con- 
 sciously possibly, but most of you unconsciously, have 
 helped me not a little in these studies which have been 
 prosecuted for eight years. If I have received from oth- 
 ers occasional suggestions, it would be unjust to allude to 
 them without adding that not a few have been but repe- 
 titions of plans that have come to me here, and have been 
 welcome mainly in proportion as they seemed the echoes 
 of what had been entertained before. Among you I have 
 not been denied the resources of experience, nor of the 
 finest sense of what was for the highest welfare of the 
 College ; and I may claim that I had, in many a confer- 
 ence within these walls, the assurance of the practicability 
 and the wisdom of the measures I had devised. 
 
 As the Trustees have done me the honor to request my 
 co-operation in the conduct of the library, I may ask to 
 be indulged in referring to one or two features of its 
 administration which have seemed to me worthy to be 
 entertained by the Council, and at which I have only 
 hinted in my letter to the Corporation. 
 
 The equipment of the library to meet the current wants 
 of the classes, including the lesser libraries for each of the 
 departments, the libraries for reference in the separate 
 cottages and halls without the main building, and the 
 wide range of books of reference, in duplicate or man- 
 ifold, auxiliary to the text-books, which the principal 
 
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 library will contain, — all these will not require an indefi- 
 nitely large array of volumes. As new books replacing 
 the old come into use, the latter may be transferred to 
 a convenient stack for less frequent consultation. The 
 total number for undergraduate service need not greatly 
 vary. 
 
 But the uses of books at a seat of learning reach beyond 
 the wants of undergraduates. The Faculty need supplies 
 from the daily widening field of literature. They should 
 have access to the periodical issues of contemporary 
 research and criticism in the various branches of knowl- 
 edge pertaining to their individual departments. In 
 addition to these, the progressive culture of an established 
 college demands a share in whatever adorns and ennobles 
 scholarly life, and principally the opportunity to know 
 something of the best of all the past, — the writers of 
 choice and rare books. To meet this demand there will 
 continue to grow the collections in specialties for biblio- 
 graphical research, which starting like the suite of peri- 
 odicals with the founder, have been nursed, as they will 
 continue to be cherished, under the wise direction of the 
 Library Council. Some of these will be gathered in con- 
 cert, it may be hoped, with neighboring and venerable 
 and hospitable institutions, that costly duplicates may be 
 avoided ; some will be exclusively our own. 
 
 To these collections of specialties may come, as to a 
 joint estate in the republic of letters, not alone the Fac- 
 ulty of the College, but such other persons of culture 
 engaged in literary labor as may not have found facilities 
 for conducting their researches elsewhere, and to whom 
 
54 LIBRARY FESTIVAL 
 
 the Trustees may extend invitation to avail themselves of 
 the resources of our library. 
 
 Besides these there is another class for whom it seems 
 desirable to contemplate provision, as the means and dis- 
 cretion of the Trustees may permit. 
 
 There must appear among us, from time to time, grad- 
 uates who will have revealed to their instructors and 
 classmates that if they had opportunity, — and this means 
 mainly opportunity qualified by financial considerations, 
 — they could usefully contribute to the cause of letters. 
 Some persons are born to bibliography. Should such 
 rare offspring manifest their presence in our classes, they 
 may, after graduation, be aided in the fulfilment of their 
 destiny, and be an honor to their Alma Mater, perhaps to 
 their day ; or they may conduct, in the midst of untoward 
 surroundings, a prolonged struggle, which through want 
 of appreciation, or of health, or of conscious usefulness, 
 will end in failure. It seems possible to convert such 
 danger of failure into largely assured success. 
 
 It may be assumed that* persons of this class, always 
 few in number, would be glad to receive from the Trus- 
 tees an invitation to remain at the College, or to return to 
 it after a limited absence, to pursue, for one or two years, 
 a course of research in some branch of literature or 
 science, to be crowned at the end with the production of 
 a monograph on a chosen theme. With the field of such 
 a theme sufficiently narrowed to be the subject of exhaus- 
 tive research within a defined period, the production 
 could scarcely fail to be of positive value. There would 
 be open to these graduates all the material here, and. 
 
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 virtually, it may be believed, all in neighboring libraries at 
 Cambridge and in Boston, and by like courtesy in hospi- 
 table private libraries; and lastly, that the whole ground 
 might be covered, still needed material might be ob- 
 tained with funds of the library, by purchase, to swell 
 the treasures of a specialty. 
 
 I would have two copies of the result of each research 
 made in calligraph to be deposited in an alcove of the 
 library, under the head of the " Wellesley Monographs." 
 Of these, one copy would be the permanent possession of 
 the library ; the other might be taken from the shelves at 
 the wish of the author and with the consent of the Library 
 Council for pubHcation, as " From the Wellesley Mono- 
 graphs," or to serve for reference or aid in any other kin- 
 dred field, or at a later time when a loving hand should 
 gather up the memorials of a worthy life. 
 
 These graduates of Wellesley I have thought might, 
 with the approbation of the Trustees, be regarded as as- 
 sistants in the library, where besides learning inciden- 
 tally somewhat of how a library should be conducted, they 
 would receive such moderate salaries as would be in keep- 
 ing with their privileges and be sustained by the judg- 
 ment of the Trustees and Library Council ; or they might 
 aid in some way, mutually acceptable, in the scientific or 
 literary departments in which their studies or researches 
 are to be conducted. The number of such assistants and 
 their privileges might vary with the means which, in the 
 discretion of the Trustees, should be regarded as properly 
 to be placed at the disposal of the Library Council for the 
 purpose contemplated. 
 
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 I sometimes think one may look forward to a time 
 when there will in this direction be a new attraction to 
 Wellesley ; when to all the facilities we now enjoy, and 
 all we feel to be at hand, there will be recognized as 
 steadily growing here, to be of permanent value as au- 
 thority in bibliographical research, an alcove of original 
 papers. The learned will come to consult them; the 
 local historian to verify his dates ; the biographer to find 
 his needed records ; the statistician, the critic, the student 
 of social science, the reviewer, the antiquary, the spe- 
 cialist of whatever order. Some such visits may become 
 memorable traditions of the college life. I sometimes 
 think such an alcove, filled with the fruit of our own cul- 
 ture, in the simple pov»rer of its voiceless presence, as well 
 as through the influence of those who may seek its collec- 
 tions, may produce a measurable impress on the classes 
 here. 
 
 I am persuaded that with each accession of privilege of 
 a larger academic life, the high attainments of the classes, 
 and the growth and weight of character which give to 
 scholarly equipment and training their highest efficiency, 
 will be enriched with an added dignity or sweetness or 
 grace, which, real as refinement, will be lasting as the 
 virtue of the loadstone in all their future lives. 
 
 I would like, before taking my seat, to recall the name 
 that is on all our lips and in all our hearts, but nowhere 
 to be seen in all these beautiful grounds ; but I may not. 
 I feel the touch of a vanished hand ! It is as he pur- 
 posed. I hear a voice that, living, would have restrained 
 me. And yet I may ,not be withheld from saying in our 
 
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 common behalf, that the man who, of his genius and 
 wealth consecrated to far-seeing purpose, sets upon its 
 feet a broadly planned and thoroughly thought-out insti- 
 tution, conceived to aid in solving the problem of the 
 higher education of women, wisely providing a place and 
 appliances where the humblest not less than the more 
 fortunate may make effective their contributions to the 
 work, — that man has entered into the elect of the bene- 
 factors of mankind. If you seek his monument, look 
 about you. 
 
 The following sonnet, written for the occasion by Mrs. Louise 
 Chandler Moulton, was read by Miss Willietta Goddard, a 
 former President of the Class of '86 ; — 
 
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 TO THE DISCOVERER OF NORUMBEGA. 
 
 BY LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON. 
 
 T T APPY Discoverer of that vanished town 
 
 ■*■ -^ Whose gracious ghosts assemble at thy call 
 
 To rear for thee again each ancient wall, 
 Till as of old the stately ramparts frown, — 
 Not this discovery is thy best renown, 
 O thou, to whose high soul it did befall 
 To see that gain of one means good for all, — 
 Thou, whose whole life of love our laurels crown. 
 
 We lay our reverent homage at thy feet ; 
 We warm our lives at that warm heart of thine, 
 And to the coming years bequeath thy fame, 
 Thine ! — in whom purpose and fulfilment meet. 
 What later guests to bless thee shall combine ! 
 What grateful memories embalm thy name ! 
 
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 Following these exercises, the President invited the audience 
 to the library for the final ceremonies. The sight there will not 
 soon be forgotten. The long tables were removed, and the rear 
 windows were banked with plants. All the railings of the gal- 
 leries were adorned with daisies, and above the flower faces were 
 the faces of two hundred of the students. On the right of the 
 door is a portrait in black and white of Professor Horsford, the 
 gift of Mrs. Horsford, and on the left a bronze shield, with this 
 inscription beneath Professor Horsford's coat-of-arms : " To 
 commemorate the Hberality of Eben Norton Horsford, who 
 endowed this library, 1878." Over the door of the hbrary with- 
 out had been lately inscribed the verse: "Christ, in whom are hid 
 all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge." Within : " The 
 Lord is a God of Knowledge." Over the Gertrude Library door, 
 Solomon's prayer : " Give me now Wisdom and Knowledge." 
 And on the arch within, among the books on the Bible : " And 
 another Book was opened, which was the Book of Life." These 
 verses were found on a paper in Mr. Durant's handwriting, 
 headed, "To be inscribed on the library walls when it is fres- 
 coed." It was pleasant to have this beautiful design of his 
 carried out at this time. 
 
 Standing at the entrance to the library and addressing the 
 throng in the hall and alcoves. Miss Anna Broadwell, President 
 of the Senior Class, spoke as follows : — 
 
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 ADDRESS BY MISS ANNA BROADWELL. 
 
 f~\F all the glorious days in our college life, the Class 
 ^^^ of '86 may well count this the most glorious ; for 
 it is a day set apart in honor of one who is not only 
 the great friend of our Alma Mater, but also the one 
 whom it is our privilege to call brother. Four years ago 
 when first we placed ourselves under the loving care of 
 Mother Wellesley, and joined ourselves with the many 
 " girls who were gathering pearls " from her various 
 treasure-houses, we looked beyond the few pearls of wis- 
 dom that fell in our path, and found a friendship far 
 more valuable than jewels or precious stones. We found 
 a brother, — nay more, we found one who will ever be 
 to us what the Great Stone Face was in Hawthorne's 
 story, excepting that the face which we look upon as 
 our ideal is a living face, with love to God and man 
 written on every feature. [She unveiled a portrait of 
 Professor Horsford.] It has been a happy lot to grow 
 in womanhood with this living face before our eyes ; 
 for " all the features are noble, and the expression is at 
 once grand and sweet, as though it were the glow of 
 a vast warm heart that held all mankind in its affections 
 and had room for more." It has been an education to 
 every Wellesley girl to know it, — an education which 
 will ever inspire us to place in our faces the same sweet- 
 ness, the same grandeur, the same nobility. 
 
 A college song by Katharine Lee Bates was then sung 
 by the students. 
 
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 ALL HAIL TO THE COLLEGE BEAUTIFUL. 
 
 ALL hail to the College Beautiful ! 
 All hail to the navy blue ! 
 All hail to the girls who are gath'ring pearls 
 From the shells that are open to few ! 
 From the shells upcast by the ebbing Past 
 On the shores where, faithful and true, 
 An earnest band, with the groping hand, 
 Are seeking the jewels from under the sand. 
 And spreading abroad through the breadth of the land 
 The name of the navy blue. 
 
 Chorus. All hail to the College, hail ! 
 All hail to the royal throne 
 Whence, her heart within her burning. 
 Silver voiced, far-eyed Learning 
 Looks upon her own. 
 
 All hail to the College Beautiful ! 
 
 All hail to the sacred walls 
 
 Where, sinking away in the shadowy gray. 
 
 Aye the sun's last radiance falls ; 
 
 Where first on the lake the day-beams awake, 
 
 And the Spring's white manacles break ! 
 
 But flushed in waking or pale in rest. 
 
 With leaves on her hair or with snows on her breast, 
 
 Forever the fairest and noblest and best, 
 
 All hail to her sacred walls ! 
 
 A poem for the occasion, by Miss Louise Manning Hodgkins, 
 Professor of Literature, was read by Miss Elizabeth Hayden, 
 of '86: — 
 
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 AN OPEN SECRET. 
 
 BY LOUISE MANNING HODGKINS. 
 
 ONE morning in June on her cool green hill 
 The College Beautiful, calm and still, 
 Far down the heights, in the waters clear, 
 Saw her own sweet face in Waban Mere. 
 
 'T was a fair, fair face that one might paint 
 After a vision of hero or saint, 
 But no artist might take with bold emprise 
 The secret that lay in her happy eyes. 
 
 The birds from every nest and tree 
 Carolled it freely in rapturous glee, 
 Till it seemed the oriole's throat would burst 
 In his quivering zeal to tell it first. 
 
 The grave white lilies were all aware. 
 And breathed it out on the fragrant air ; 
 And ne'er such whispering among the reeds 
 Since the olden days of King Midas' deeds. 
 
 A bee in the heart of a flower who lay. 
 Hummed it softly in roundelay ; 
 And touching the tip of each golden spire. 
 The sun left the message in words of fire. 
 
 From the restless earth to the tranquil sky, 
 Birdling and blossom and butterfly 
 Were full of a gladness they only may reach 
 Who know not the dulness of human speech. 
 
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 But soft ! slow rising along the height, 
 
 Like a floating cloud and with hearts as light, 
 
 A countless host of maidens came 
 
 Like Chaucer's throng to the House of Fame. 
 
 Gay and blithe was the song they sung, 
 And many were fair and all were young, 
 Save one at their head who was leading them in 
 With the charm of the Piper of Hamelin. 
 
 Yet he held to his lips no fairy lute ; 
 His face was grave and his lips were mute ; 
 Only I saw in his hand he bore 
 A magic key to a mystical door. 
 
 From north, from south, from east, from west, 
 Closer and closer the maidens pressed, 
 And a wonderful smile crept up to his eyes, 
 And stopped on the threshold of surprise. 
 
 And just as the door wide open was flung 
 I caught the words of the song they sung. 
 Strong, ecstatic, wild, and free. 
 Like the notes of a heaven-caught melody. 
 
 SONG. 
 
 All that has been, 
 
 Or may be, 
 Openeth, Maiden, unto thee 
 Through the Angel of the key. 
 
 Earth below thee 
 
 Shall unfold 
 All her treasures manifold. 
 Yielding to thine age of gold. 
 
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 Stars above thee 
 Now shall tell, 
 Every secret garnered well 
 In the heights invisible. 
 
 Poets, seers 
 
 Of every age. 
 Gray philosopher and sage 
 Are thy gracious heritage. 
 
 Dowered art thou 
 Beyond compare, 
 Hence with royal right to share 
 All that is in earth or air. 
 
 With the good 
 
 And great alway, 
 Go in gladness on thy way. 
 Where thou goest shall be day ! 
 
 The door flew open to the magic key, 
 To the world of unsolved mystery. 
 Sweet friend, pray tell me does it seem 
 I saw the picture but in a dream .' 
 
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 Dr. DuRYEA. with a short and very felicitous address to 
 Professor Horsford, formally placed the tablet ; and the exer- 
 cises were concluded by the class of '86 joining in the following 
 song, written to music arranged from the Swiss folk-song 
 " Abshied von Dirndel," by Miss Flora A. Smeallie ■ - 
 
 COLLEGE SONG. 
 
 BY ANNE LOUISE BARRETT. 
 
 TO Alma Mater, Wellesley's daughters 
 All together join and sing. 
 Through all her wealth of woods and waters 
 
 Let your happy voices ring. 
 In every changing mood we love her. 
 
 Love her towers and woods and lake : 
 Oh, changeful sky, bend blue above her ! 
 Wake, ye birds, your chorus wake ! 
 
 We '11 sing her praises, now and ever, 
 
 Blessed fount of truth and love. 
 Our hearts' devotion, may it never 
 
 Faithless or unworthy prove. 
 We '11 give our lives and hopes to serve her, 
 
 Humblest, highest, noblest — all. 
 A stainless name we will preserve her. 
 
 Answer to her every call. 
 
 The guests were then invited by President Freeman to the 
 College dining-hall, where, amid many pretty decorations of 
 plants and flowers, the collation was served. 
 
 From 3 to 5 p. m. Professor Horsford and his family and 
 President Freeman received in the library. The parlor, most 
 tastefully decorated for the occasion, and the Gertrude Library, 
 in which rare old books and treasures were exhibited, served 
 as pleasant conversation-rooms, while the Germania Orchestra 
 enlivened the scene by a succession of charming selections. 
 Many of the guests visited Norumbega Cottage, which was 
 open for inspection, or promenaded about the grounds. 
 
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