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for the teachers a freedom of instruction which has inspired
them to high attainment and fruitful work. You, with them, have
given to the College a commanding position in the country, and
have secured for it and for its graduates universal respect.
The deep foundations for its success have been intellectual and
spiritual, and its abiding work has been the building up of
character by contact with character.

Fortunate in her location, fortunate in her large minded
trustees, fortunate in the loyal devotedness of her faculty and
supremely fortunate has our College been in the consecrated
creative genius of her illustrious president. Bringing to his
task a noble ideal, with rare sagacity as an administrator;
with financial and economic skill rarely found in a scholar and
idealist, but necessary to foster into fullest fruitfulness the
slender pecuniary resources then at hand; with tact and suavity
which made President Seelye's "no," if no were needed, more
gracious than "yes" from others; with the force which grasps
difficulties fearlessly; with dignified scholarship and a
courtly manner, the master builder of our College, under whose
hand the little one has become a thousand and the small one a
strong republic, has achieved the realization of his high ideal
and is crowned with honour and affection.

He has made one ashamed of any but the highest motives, and has
taught us that sympathy and love for mankind are the traits for
which to strive. The ideals of womanly life which he instilled
will ever be held high before us.

There are many distinguished qualities which a college
president must possess. He must be idealist, creator, executor,
financier, and scholar. President Seelye--is all these--but he
had another and a rarer gift which binds and links these
qualities together, as the chain on which jewels are
strung--President Seelye had immense capacity for work and
patient attention for details. It is this unusual combination
which has given us a great College, and has given to our
president a unique position among educators.

I realize that I must at times have been rather a trying proposition
to President Seelye for I was placed in an entirely new world, and
having been almost wholly educated by my father, by Dartmouth
professors, and b