. Bulletin of the Essex Institute. Essex Institute; Natural history; genealogy. 42 BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE. the public welfare; and there are others of the race,: ready, we doubt not, to take up the line of march in a kindred spirit. Among the figures of the past that continue to rise before me, I discern Jones Very, the modest, retiring poet, who, as Greek tutor at Cambridge, in his walks with one and another of us Freshmen, strengthened our best aspirations, and drew, in later life, from such a man as the late William Goodwin Russell, the leading advocate in Boston, a heartfelt tribu
. Bulletin of the Essex Institute. Essex Institute; Natural history; genealogy. 42 BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE. the public welfare; and there are others of the race,: ready, we doubt not, to take up the line of march in a kindred spirit. Among the figures of the past that continue to rise before me, I discern Jones Very, the modest, retiring poet, who, as Greek tutor at Cambridge, in his walks with one and another of us Freshmen, strengthened our best aspirations, and drew, in later life, from such a man as the late William Goodwin Russell, the leading advocate in Boston, a heartfelt tribute to the value of a close personal intercourse with such a man as Jones Very at the forming period of one's life. Time and again have I heard my father express, in glowing terms, his sense of the inestimable value to the Institute of the ser- vices of the late Dr. Henry Wheat- land. And now let us hear Eeverend Charles T. Brooks (whose schol- arly face always retained the sweet ingenuousness of childhood). I speak for himself in the closing lines of the Ode for the Dedication of Plummer Hall, which (after alluding to Salem as the " City of Peace ") continues : "God of Peace, the city keep ! Guarded well by watchmen three! Sentinels that never sleep, Learning, Faith, and Mo]yol\e Chair The President here alluded to the ancient chair that he was using, as associated with Dr. Holyoke. It was an Elizabethan arm chair presented to the Historical Society at its initial meeting in 1821, and then two centuries oldr. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Essex Institute. 1n. Salem, Mass. , Essex Institute
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