pted a call from the Congregational church and congregation in
Leicester, Mass. Here his labors proved alike acceptable and useful.
Very considerable additions were made to the church, and the spirit
and power of religion became increasingly visible under his
ministrations. During a part of the time that he resided at Leicester,
he joined to his duties as a minister those of principal of the
Leicester Academy; and here, also, he acquitted himself with much
honor.

"In October, 1811, he accepted the chair of professor of Languages in
Dartmouth College. Here he was greatly respected as a man, a teacher,
and a preacher; and if his attainments in his department were not of
the very highest order, they were at least such as to secure both his
respectability and usefulness.

"In 1815, he was elected to the presidency of Williams College, then
vacant by the resignation of Dr. Fitch. He accepted the appointment,
and was regularly inducted into office at the annual Commencement in
September of that year. Shortly after his removal to Williamstown,
Dartmouth College, which he had just left, conferred upon him the
degree of Doctor of Divinity. He adorned this new station, as he had
done those which he had previously occupied. His connection with the
college was attended by some circumstances of peculiar embarrassment,
in consequence of an effort on the part of the Trustees to remove the
college to Northampton or some other town in Hampshire County. The
measure failed in consequence of the refusal of the Legislature to
sanction it. Dr. Moore, however, decidedly favored it from the
beginning, but in a manner that reflected not in the least upon his
Christian integrity and honor.

"In the spring of 1821, the collegiate institution at Amherst, Mass.,
having been founded, he was invited to become its President, and was
inaugurated as such in September following. The institution, then in
its infancy, and contending with a powerful public opinion, and even
with the Legislature itself, for its very existence, put in
requisition all his energies; and the ultimate success of the
enterprise was no doubt to be referred, in no small degree, to his
discreet, earnest, and untiring efforts. In addition to his
appropriate duties as president and as chairman of the Board of
Trustees, he heard the recitations of the Senior class, and part of
the recitations of the Sophomore class, besides taking occasional
agencies with a view to increase the fun