I think it may be affirmed that his interest deepened and strengthened in the cause to which he had given the best energies of his young and mature manhood as time wore on. Returning as it were by a natural rebound of affection to his earlier regard for literary and theological culture, he made the splendid donation of Miner Theological Hall to the Divinity School. Then, as if he would not be bound to any restricted channel of educational effort, he sought the aid of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts that he might apply the funds left in his hands by the will of the late Henry B. Pearson to some of the phases of scientific effort already undertaken by the College. The Bromfield-Pearson School is the result. Finally, by his last will and testament, he gives the whole of the residuary of his estate to the College, the income to be used by the trustees without restriction for those objects which they deem most wise. You will all agree with me that none but a great man could thus give up his official connection with a cherished instrumentality, and still keep, in spite of many disappointments and some crossing of purposes, his affection ardent and warm towards it, and ultimately crown and seal his love by the noblest benefactions.

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His former pupils, not a few of whom are here to-night, would not feel that I had performed my duty if I failed to speak of him as a teacher. The splendid tribute of Dr. Adams, however, renders the task nearly superfluous. Dr. Miner belonged to a type of college presidents which is now extinct, a type which was represented by such men Francis Wayland, James Walker, Theodore D. Woolsey, and Mark Hopkins. They were men who taught not so much by their learning (though they were not without learning) as by their personality. I heard President Dwight of Yale University say, not long since, that Dr. Woolsey could not go through the college yard without communicating to the students who saw him a distinct intellectual impulse. To no man in the world could this remark be applied more justly than to Dr. Miner. However he appeared, whether on foot or on horseback, his presence was majestic. The man who saw him for the first time turned involuntarily and gazed after him. Even those to whom his goings to and fro upon the

street were familiar often stopped and looked upon him with admiration. To his own pupils, as he ascended the hill of science before them, he seemed a veritable "king of men."

The modern college president is a curious compound. He is expected, to be sure, to know something of pedagogical subjects and to be able to expound them to his own and other bodies of teachers. His time, however, is mainly occupied with petty details of business. Of his own faculty he is little more than the presiding officer, and the entire work of college administration and discipline is done by act of the college parliament. He may do some teaching if he can find time for it, but he is quite as likely to be found in the amphitheatre of the ball-field, stimulating his pupils to athletic achievement, as in the academic hall, rousing their minds with the mighty themes of philosophy and duty. Fortunately Dr. Miner was not cast in this mould, and was not called to do his work under the conditions which this mould imposes. Wherever he was, he was a masterful spirit. Whether seated

in the presidential chair among his associate teachers, or face to face with the undergraduates, every one was made to feel that in some just and profound measure his will was law. In the class-room it was not his expositions of the text that most impressed his pupils, but rather the clearness and force with which he grasped ideas and truth. The brilliancy and profundity of his own thought drew forth their intellectual resources, and set them to thinking for themselves on independent lines. For this reason no man who ever felt as a pupil the inspiration of his intellectual life can fail to revere him as a wise teacher and profound thinker.

So his work goes on, through the College to which he has contributed not only more variously, but a greater sum of things than any other single individual thus far in its history; through the departments of study which he created; through the noble intellectual ideals which he embodied, and through the stimulus of his peerless personality. This is his legacy to us. God help us to hand it on not only unimpaired, but with fresh accumulations to the generations that are to come.

The services came to a close near the hour of ten.

IV.

DR. MINER'S WILL.

THE following is an authorized abstract, containing every

essential in Dr. Miner's last will and testament.

Dr. Miner first provided that after the decease of his wife the bond for forty thousand dollars which he gave to Tufts College for the erection of Miner Theological Hall shall be paid. He then makes private bequests for about ten thousand dollars. The residue of his estate he gives in trust to Newton Talbot and Maria S. P. Miner, who were also his executor and executrix, all of which, including the income of his whole estate, may be used by his widow for her support, or she may dispose of it by will. If there shall be any remaining estate after her decease, then he gives two thousand dollars to each of the following societies and institutions: Second Society of Universalists in Boston, Universalist Publishing House, Massachusetts Universalist Convention, Dean Academy, Goddard Seminary, Westbrook Seminary, and the Universalist Society in Lempster, N. H. — all in trust, the income only to be used for specific purposes. The remainder of his estate he gives in trust to Tufts College, the income only to be used for the general purposes of the College.

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