of that growing West which was then a sprawling, irregular line of
pioneer settlements, and is now an empire. Search through it, above and
below the Ohio, and beyond the Mississippi. So often, where there are
centers of good work or right thinking and right living--so often and
so widely spread will you find traces of Miami, left by her own sons or
coming from those secondary sources which sprang from her example and
influence, that you are led in grateful surprise to exclaim: "If this
be the work of a little college, God bless and prolong the little
college! If, half starved and generally neglected, she has thus
nourished good learning and its proper result in good lives through the
three quarters of a century ended to-day, may the days of her years be
as the sands of the sea; may the Twentieth Century only introduce the
glorious prime of a career of which the Nineteenth saw but modest
beginnings, and may good old Miami still flourish in saecula saeculorum!"

[5] Much attention had been attracted, as the date for this
celebration approached, to the numerous sons of this small
college who had in one way or another become prominent; and the
newspapers printed long lists of them. Among the names thus
singled out in the press were Benjamin Harrison, of the class of
1852, President of the United States, 1889-93; William Dennison,
class of 1835, Governor of Ohio, 1859-63, and Postmaster-General
under Abraham Lincoln; Caleb B. Smith, 1826, Secretary of the
Interior in the same Administration; General Robert C. Schenck,
1827, Chairman Ways and Means Committee in House of
Representatives, Major-General in the Civil War, and United
States Minister to Brazil and to Great Britain; William S.
Groesbeck, 1834, Congressman, counsel for Andrew Johnson in the
impeachment proceedings, and United States delegate to the
International Monetary Congress, 1878; Samuel Shellabarger, 1841,
Congressman, member of the Credit Mobilier Investigation, and of
the United States Civil Service Commission; Oliver P. Morton,
1845, War Governor of Indiana, and United States Senator; Charles
Anderson, 1833, Governor of Ohio; James Birney, 1836, Governor of
Michigan; Richard Yates, 1830, War Governor of Illinois, and
United States Senator; Milton Sayler, 1852, Speaker House of
Representatives; John S. Williams, 1838, the "Cerro