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��Matthexv Harvey.

��'' Long Joliu Wentworth," — a true son of our altna mater. I ought to have given him a prominent place ; bnt he spoke for himself at the meet- ing of the alumni last summer at Hanover, and it would be impossible for me to add a single leaf to the laurel which he placed upon his own brow on that interesting occasion.

And now, instead of mentioning the name of each particular man who graduated from Dartmouth college, and went out into the world to make it I tetter, and in his private way or in a public position directl}^ or indirectly took part in the great drama of polit- ical life, who helped to guide and in- fluence American sentiment in such a way that the greatest good may be realized by the greatest number, and our nation become not only great but good, — for the names of these men, I most respectfully refer you to the last triennial catalogue. Drop out the names of a few, a very few at that, and the residue will be the names of the graduates of old Dartmouth, who.

��from the pulpit and the rostrum, and by personal influence, have been striv- ing to make politics honorable as a profession to such as were called into political life, and to demonstrate to the world that a man may be a pol- itician and not a rascal, a states- man and not a deraagoafue. It was Calederaus, the Athenian philosopher, who upon his death-bed said to his son Spencipius, — "In my da}' lying was not elevated to a science, neither was politics degraded into a trade."

Let us hope the good seed sown at old Dartmouth may be so scattered and so blessed, that when we come to the end of our lives we may be con- scious that we have done what we could to elevate the science of politics, that it may never be degraded into a trade.

In closing, permit me to quote from New England's charming rhymist :

" Enough : there are gentlemen waiting to talk, Whose words are to mine as the flower to the

stalk;— Stand by your old mother, whatever befall: God bless all her children! Good-night to ye all."

��MATTHEW HARVEY.

By C. C. Lord.

��In every department of creation are two manifestations of force. In hu- man society, these forces resolve into conservative and reformatoiT agen- cies ; these two agencies act and react upon each other. Social government is like a pendulum that swings be- tween two extreme points.

Sometimes great social contingen- cies swallow up small ones. Some- times, also, small ones absorb the atten- tion that belongs to great ones. In

��either situation, the affairs of society seem to be out of balance.

When people become dissatisfied with their government, there is ex- hibited a disposition to substitute another of a reverse dynamic char- acter. In this, the social pendulum evinces an inclination to swing from one to the opposite side of the per- pendicular. Sometimes the dynamic effort is successful. We have an illustration.

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