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 rest from their labours and their works do follow them.’

There is, however, something peculiar and different from most in this celebration. It was instituted by the very man whom we commemorate: instituted not for his own glory, but ‘to make mention of the benefactors of this College, and to encourage its members to search out the secrets of nature by way of experiment.’