Records and papers of the New London county historical society .. . its author, whohad since been president of two universities which owed their organi-zation and success to his eftorts, was called upon to accept the presi-dency of the Carnegie Institution, at Washington, with its endowmentof ten million dollars, and its avowed primary object: To promoteoriginal research. Thus we may say that the spirit of patient, intelli-gent research, which was so marked in the young man of twenty-eight,reached its full growth and fruitage in the distinguished scholar anduniversity president of seventy-one.
Records and papers of the New London county historical society .. . its author, whohad since been president of two universities which owed their organi-zation and success to his eftorts, was called upon to accept the presi-dency of the Carnegie Institution, at Washington, with its endowmentof ten million dollars, and its avowed primary object: To promoteoriginal research. Thus we may say that the spirit of patient, intelli-gent research, which was so marked in the young man of twenty-eight,reached its full growth and fruitage in the distinguished scholar anduniversity president of seventy-one. To tell, even in outline, of those forty-two years of active, distin-guished life in our higher institutions of learning, and of the followingseven years in that unique and still higher institution to which he wascalled, would be more than 1 could hope to do. even in a larger limitof time than that to which 1 must confine myself. Before preparing and delivering the address at Norwich, to which1 have alluded, he had pursued such post-graduate studies as the then. DaNIKI. Con (III MAN. IN MEMOKIAM. m; meagre facilities of Yale afforded, had attended the lectures of thecelebrated geographer Carl Ritter in Berlin, and had travelled exten-sively in Europe in pursuit of other studies. After completing a serviceof seven years as librarian, he was made professor of political andphysical geography in the Sheffield Scientific School, of Yale duties of this position were supplemented by his secretaryship ofthis school. We find him also, atone time, acting visitor of the publicschools, of New Haven, and at another time, Secretary of the StateBoard of Education. In all these positions he had acquitted himself so well, and gainedso much more than a local reputation, that in he accepted theposition of President of the far-distant University of California, aposition which he had previously declined to accept. It is only necessary to read his inaugural address on assummg this
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