Essays Historical Literary, Educational Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Essays: Historical Literary, Educational

On the death of President Timothy Dwight, January 11, 1817, great anxiety was felt for the college. Men who still retained distinct impressions of the energetic intellect and fervid eloquence of President Stiles, the most learned scholar in America, and fresher impressions of President Dwight, imperial in mind, manner, and person, in their Opinion the beau ideal of what a president of Yale College should be, in their regret and despondency were ready to say, These suns have set, 0 rise some other such! In the expected political change from the charter of Charles II., to a constitution adopted by the people, they feared that in some way the inter ests of Yale College would be compromised.

After the appointment of President Day, it became known generally among the friends of the college, that in him the elements were so mixed that there was no redundancy and no deficiency; that good without pretence, his mind of large discourse was able to look before and after, and was thus not liable to be jostled from its place by the surging impulses of the present; that he was to be the Palinurus, the pilot who could weather the storm and with a wary eye and steady hand could take the ship into port. The public were reassured. At a festival attended by the citizens of New Haven, a toast was drank We want no brighter light than that of Day. Strangers were strongly impressed in his favor. When two from abroad were speaking of him with admiration, one said, Why, he has the head of Leo.

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