History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . inistrations and wdiich resulted in the aboli-tion of the old hazing system and the introductionof a healthier spirit of mutual regard in the instruc-tors and students, and the first broadening out of thecollege curriculum beyond its narrow limit by intro-ducing the elective system. The success of Dr. Pea-body as an administrator was marked, and it seemednatural that he should have been elected to the per-manent incumbency of the office wdiich he adorned ;the strong secular tendency
History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . inistrations and wdiich resulted in the aboli-tion of the old hazing system and the introductionof a healthier spirit of mutual regard in the instruc-tors and students, and the first broadening out of thecollege curriculum beyond its narrow limit by intro-ducing the elective system. The success of Dr. Pea-body as an administrator was marked, and it seemednatural that he should have been elected to the per-manent incumbency of the office wdiich he adorned ;the strong secular tendency in college affairs had,however, predetermined that the office should not beheld in any event by a clergyman. In these very important duties Dr. Peabody re-mained at his post for twenty-one years, with an in-terval of travel in Europe from June, 1867, to March,1868, which he accomplished by compressing thework of two terms into that of a single one after hisreturn, and of which he published, in 1868, a recordin his Reminiscences of European Travel. Abriefer visit to Russia, and the neighboring countries -». £* ^y^/ &~^j&- BEVERLY. 761 in which lie shared the hospitalities enjoyed hy Gen-eral Grant, was made by him in the summer of 1876,and a longer sojourn in Europe with his family afterresigning the Plummer professorship, from June,1881, to September, 1882. His resignation had goneinto effect after the commencement of 1881, but hewas at once appointed professor emeritus, retiringfrom the burdens of his official position, but in nosense from his place in the heart of the college norfrom the opportunities of service which awaited key-note of Dr. Peabodys public services isgiven in the paper already quoted, where he men-tions three biographies to which he has been speciallyindebted. The first is that of Niebuhr : If I have been able, in things secular and sacred, as to reports of cur-rent and records of past events, to steer a safe way between credulityan
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