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 worthy of the dignity and resources of a great and mighty nation.

Look at Agassiz, the younger, and likewise distinguished, naturalist, zoologist, ichthyologist, coast surveyor, metallurgist, president of the richest copper mines in the world—the far-famed Calumet and Hecla—an athlete, tough, skilful, fearless, and a stayer; bow oarsman of the first but one, and of the victorious Harvard University crew; exacting their best of others, and equally unsparing of himself.

Or at President Eliot, who, taking the President's chair of the oldest and most illustrious university in America when still a young man, has for more than a quarter of a century filled it with signal success; keeping it the leader, in the van of American institutions of learning; rowing an oar in the 'Varsity crew of' 58; and only prevented from racing Yale by the sad death of his stroke-oar, Dunham, who was drowned at Springfield just before the race-day.

Or at Sir Charles Dilke, critic, journalist, statesman, author of Greater Britain, which, passing through many editions, elected him to Parliament; a violent Republican, yet re-elected; Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; member of the Cabinet; again in Parliament; proprietor of the Athenæum; author of The Present Position of European Politics; The British Army; and Problems of Greater Britain; pronounced by Bismarck the ablest statesman in England after Gladstone; personal friend of the Prince of Wales, and perhaps to be his first prime minister; of whom it was said, in a New York paper, that he "has been astonishing Paris by his prowess with the foils; that, though in his fifty-fourth year, he showed an agility and alertness, and, above all, a suppleness, that would have done