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 tions to the graduates of the year may he formulated in the wish that to their portion in life may come some of the success which he achieved; while my exhortation to them may find fit expression in the noble words with which he bade farewell to the graduates who had the privilege of being addressed by so distinguished a son of the University: "speak the truth, do your duty, swerve not from the highest study".

To these two departed worthies — each remarkable in his own way, the one an illustration of the amplest culture united to the sublimest character and the other a fine specimen of the rich fruit of University Education in this country — to these two gifted souls we render the tribute of our profound respect, even as we mark their exit from our plane of existence with keen regret. However, may there not be found something more significant than mere accident in the coincidence that these two striking persopalities, so prominently connected with this University, should be translated to a brighter realm even as the Institution which lies