. Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . d years;For hope survives the grave, the loss, the pain, Though memory smite the Horeb heart to holy spell of power Speaks from their tomb, for consolation given: Earth has the fragrance of the perfect flower, The fruit matures in heaven. is quite other than the politician who sneered at the purification ofpolitics as an iridescent dream. Garfield came to Williams from Hiram Institute in Ohio. Thisstep he always regarded as peculiarly fortunate. The beauty of theNorthern Berkshi
. Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . d years;For hope survives the grave, the loss, the pain, Though memory smite the Horeb heart to holy spell of power Speaks from their tomb, for consolation given: Earth has the fragrance of the perfect flower, The fruit matures in heaven. is quite other than the politician who sneered at the purification ofpolitics as an iridescent dream. Garfield came to Williams from Hiram Institute in Ohio. Thisstep he always regarded as peculiarly fortunate. The beauty of theNorthern Berkshires appealed to him strongly, and many traces of itsinfluence appear in his contributions to the College Quarterly, whichwere rather frequent. Two of his poems which appeared in this period-ical— Memory and Autumn —have more than ordinary following lines from the latter show it at its best: The weather god, descending from the skies,Has reached the mountain tops and decked their browsWith glittering frosty crowns, and breathed his breathAmong the trumpet pines, that herald forthHis H BERKSHIRE COUNTY 75 His essays in The Quarterly indicate a relatively wide range of lit-erary interest—an elaborate review of the life and writings of KarlTheodor Korner being one of the best of them. Though he w^as a goodgeneral scholar and took a great interest in debating, the personalityand teaching of President Hopkins were the paramount factors in hisundergraduate life. He had a great affection for the college, and wason his way to attend the commencement of 1881 when Guiteau shot him. Next to the assassination of Lincoln, wrote Senator Hoar in hisAutobiography, his death was the greatest national misfortune evercaused to this countiy by the loss of a single life. Scarcely less notable in its way was the career of General SamuelC. Armstrong, of the class of 1862, who in 1868 founded HamptonInstitute. This school and its graduates (Booker \\ashington is oneof them) are
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