ties and counsels, and his interesting and instructive
conversation, been a benefactor to a large number of students. The
spiritual welfare of the college was near his heart. He had passed
through many revivals of religion, and he longed for the return of
such seasons. He devoutly observed the days set apart for prayer for
colleges, and, as you remember, often urged the students, assembled on
those occasions, to give their hearts to God.

"When he left his post as an instructor he was sixty-five years old.
After this he had more than twenty-two years of leisure, during which
he retained, in a remarkable degree, the vigor of his intellectual
powers. But he had good and sufficient reasons, as he judged, for his
resignation; and no new and suitable field of labor presenting itself
to a man who wanted but a few years of threescore and ten, he could
enjoy the offered leisure with a good conscience, occupying it with
such pursuits as his taste suggested. Even at the time when his labors
were the most multiplied, and the church and the college were
successively engaged in bitter controversy, he had but little to do
with administrative and practical matters. Even then a life of
reflection appeared to be more attractive than a life of action. And
when his public duties were ended, he naturally chose such a life. He
was still intellectually active. He could not let his faculties sink
into sluggish repose if he would. His temperament would not suffer it.
If he was not a hard student, he was, what he had always been, a
thinking man to the last."

In a published notice of Professor Shurtleff, by Professor (now
President) Brown, we find the following language:

"The life of Dr. Shurtleff extended over the largest and most
important part of that of the institution itself. For nearly twenty
years he was college preacher, and at the same time pastor of the
church on Hanover Plain,--during which period more than two hundred
persons connected themselves with the church, a large proportion of
them by original profession. In the contest of the college with the
State, he and the late venerable Professor Adams, with the president,
constituted the permanent Faculty for instruction and government. Upon
the issues then presented he exerted a full measure of influence,
though it was comparatively quiet and private.

"As a professor, Dr. Shurtleff had some remarkable qualities. He
possessed a mind of extraordinary subtleness and acuteness, eve