s hang the portraits of many of its founders and professors, and on
the lower floor is a valuable museum and reference library. Besides
these are various private libraries; and there is a community of taste,
which brings all valuable books to the town in some connection.

Another educational element is that of the public lectures. The People's
Course is a thrifty annual, which, each autumn, provides a series of ten
entertainments at merely nominal prices. During the past year there has
also been a course of Emergency Lectures; and various others, upon many
topics, detached from the established courses, are of frequent
occurrence. Abbot Academy provides its annual and popular series of
public "Piano Recitals," under the oversight of its efficient professor,
S. M. Downs.

Phillips Academy has its annual contests for the "Draper Prizes" and the
"Means Prizes," and a year seldom passes in the history of the
Theological Seminary without one or more courses of special lectures, in
addition to those which are in constant progress, under the regular
instructors of this and of the other institutions. Nor should the
anniversaries, with all the strangers and alumni they bring, the stir
they make, the congratulations and the partings, be forgotten.

So it is that all the important phases of our best American life are
found in the history and enterprise of this illustrious town. Here one
may find the house in which have lived seven generations, the head of
the family bearing the same name; and the home of the recent immigrant.
The educational and business interests are nobly conducted and carried
to great success, and the current life is representative of good old
customs and earnest strivings for the best things.

A careful study of Andover life, such as Rev. Phillips Brooks, D.D., had
evidently made before writing his address for the dedication of the
Memorial Hall, leads one to feel, what he has so well stated:--

"The more we look into the history of Andover the more we feel how
thoroughly it is a characteristic New England town. If I wanted to give
a foreigner some clear idea of what that excellent institution a New
England town really is, in its history and in its character, in its
enterprise and its sobriety, in its godliness and its manliness, I
should be sure that I could do it if I could make him perfectly familiar
with the past and the present of Andover."

JAMES OTIS, JR.

BY REV. H. HEWITT.

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