lifetime, and, dying,
bequeathed to it nearly the whole of his property, amounting to nearly
three hundred thousand dollars. The donations and legacies of Mr.
Packard exceed in amount those of any other benefactor. The one who
comes the nearest to him in the aggregate of his gifts is Dr. Wm. J.
Walker. This gentleman divided his princely estate between the following
institutions: Amherst College, the Museum of Natural History in Boston,
Tufts College, and Williams College. The share which Tufts College
received in this distribution was upwards of two hundred thousand
dollars. The benefactions of Dr. Walker are remarkable, if we remember
that he was an alumnus of Harvard College, an Episcopalian in religion,
that his trusted friend and counsellor at the time he was arranging for
the disposal of his property was Thomas Hill, D.D., the president of
Harvard University, and that Tufts College was in the earliest stages of
its development. But notwithstanding these facts, sufficient in
themselves to warp the judgment of ordinary men, his vision was clear
enough to enable him to see that there was room for another great
college to grow up in the neighborhood of Boston, even under the shadow
of that ancient and renowned university.

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Another notable friend of Tufts College was Dr. Oliver Dean. In the
beginning he made very liberal offers, provided the institution should
be placed in Franklin. Subsequently he devoted the greater portion of
his wealth to the founding of Dean Academy, one of whose functions was
to be the fitting of young men for the College. He also showed still
more distinctly his favor to the College by contributing in all $90,000
to its funds.

But the College was especially fortunate in its infancy and when it was
practically without funds in having for its treasurer Thomas A. Goddard,
a wealthy merchant; a man utterly void of personal vanity, whose eyes
swept over the whole field, and who, wherever he saw that the cause
could be promoted by a timely benefaction, very simply and
unostentatiously bestowed it. So when the College was almost entirely
without funds and had but a small part of the income needed to meet its
current expenses, he quietly paid the deficiency out of his own pocket
and preserved it from debt.

At the conclusion of the first half of the college year, 1874-75, Dr.
Miner, having previously resigned his pastorate in Boston, tendered his
resignat