Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . studious seclusion. To the backwardglance of how many a man conspicuous in public honorand activity are not these quiet and modest walks andbuildings of Brown the seat of a happiness which even re-nown and the gratification of the ambition once ardentlycherished here do not afford. To the older Fellow of the university undergoingthe commencement orations in the historic church, thetone of the valedictorian may seem to be factitiously youth speaks from tradition, not from he speaks also with inst
Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . studious seclusion. To the backwardglance of how many a man conspicuous in public honorand activity are not these quiet and modest walks andbuildings of Brown the seat of a happiness which even re-nown and the gratification of the ambition once ardentlycherished here do not afford. To the older Fellow of the university undergoingthe commencement orations in the historic church, thetone of the valedictorian may seem to be factitiously youth speaks from tradition, not from he speaks also with instinctive forecast, for it is theshadow of things unseen, but sure to be, that falls uponhis spirit. Happily in every successive class which as-cends the steps of the graduating platform and in everyvaledictory oration there is something of deeper signifi-cance than the tone of sadness. It is that the class andits orator are the symbols of the renewed impulse ofhope, faith and vigor with which undaunted youth foreverquickens the world. George William Curtis, honorary, Memories of Brown 11 In College with ^Sunset Cox THE following reminiscences of Samuel S. Cox, 46,speaker of the national house of representativesand minister to Turkey, have been gathered fromvarious sources, including the sketch of his lifewritten by his nephew, William V. Cox. In a letter to a sister, dated Brown University, Provi-dence, November 25, 1845, Mr. Cox gives his unique ex-perience as a temperance lecturer. He was then in hissenior year. He writes: There was to be a grand temperance oratorio (about60 singers), after the speaking (at Mechanics Hall), andthe house was densely crowded, mostly with aisles were full — some 1500 or 2000 people did not intend to speak — was standing up in the aislewith some students looking at the girls; when someonecame pushing through with a little trunk in his hand, de-claring he had to speak and must get through. Oho !Buckeye, says I. Hall
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