et, while a bronze statue stands before it.
This is the last of Yale's old buildings and will now remain for many
years.

31. minions: servile favorites.

48. presage: foretell.

TIMOTHY DWIGHT (1752-1817)

"He was in many ways the first of the great modern college presidents; if
his was the day of small things, he nevertheless did so many of them and
did them so well that he deserves admiration."

--WILLIAM P. TRENT.

Born in Northampton, Mass., he graduated from Yale and was then made a
tutor there. He became an army chaplain in 1777, but his father's death
made his return home necessary. He became a preacher later and finally
president of Yale. His hymn, "Love to the Church," is the one thing we
most want to keep of all his several volumes.

SAMUEL WOODWORTH (1785-1842)

"Our best patriotic ballads and popular lyrics are, of course, based upon
sentiment, aptly expressed by the poet and instinctively felt by the
reader. Hence just is the fame and true is the love bestowed upon the
choicest songs of our 'single-poem poets': upon Samuel Woodworth's 'Old
Oaken Bucket,' etc."
--CHARLES F. RICHARDSON.

Born at Scituate, Mass., he had very little education. His father
apprenticed him to a Boston printer while he was a young boy. He
remained in the newspaper business all his life, and wrote numerous
poems, and several operas which were produced.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)

"A moralist, dealing chiefly with death and the more sombre phases of
life, a lover and interpreter of nature, a champion of democracy and
human freedom, in each of these capacities he was destined to do
effective service for his countrymen, and this work was, as it were, cut
out for him in his youth, when he was laboring in the fields, attending
corn-huskings and cabin-raisings, or musing beside forest streams."

--W. P. TRENT.

Born in a mill-town village in western Massachusetts, he passed his
boyhood on the farm. Unable to complete his college course, he practiced
law until 1824, when he became editor of the New York Review. He
continued all his life to be a man of letters.

The poems by Bryant are used by permission of D. Appleton and Company,
authorized publishers of his works.

THANATOPSIS

34. patriarchs of the infant world: the leaders of the Hebrews before
the days of history.