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MEMORIES OF YOUTH AND MANHOOD. BY srosrY
WILLARD vols sss. Cambridge John Bartlett Sold
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idebt Kirkland, cherishes lively recollection
of the learned and genial Professor of the ORR
entail laDgusger. Amid all the caPrices of the
"ipeenuous youth" who were by turns the
pride and the torment of the Faculty, Prot.
Willard never lost the good will of his pupils,
and among those who enjoyed his intimacy IN
private life. he was a universal favOrite. Sim
pie and frank in bis manners-~ith not par
tce of the starch which often stlfens the vlsages
of academic functionaries-with an equally
hearty relish for a good book, good joke or
good tslk,-a highly accomplished scholar IN all
branches of elegant learning,-and with Sc
rene. sunny disposition which seldom knew
cloud-he exhibited fine specimen of the col
legiate gentleman, aud the accomplished pro-
lessor. Retiring with honor from the Uniyer-
atty several years since, he has held several i'm
portspt civil Offices in bis native town and State,
and for some time past has devoted The ener-
eies of a bright old age to the composition OF
the present interesting volumes.
Professor Willard was connected with Har-
ward University as a student and an officer from
his entering college in 1874 to his resignation
of the Hancock professorship in 1891. The son
Of one of its most distinguished Presidents and
personally mixed up with its interests Cor
large portion Of his career he is admirably
qualified to gather the memorials of college and
literary life in Cambridge and its vicinity 10
which this work il devoted 1t contains great
variety of local and personal anecdote, briei
sketche ofnotceable public characters, gIlm2ses
of the progress Of education and literature In
| New England. and valuable historical statements
and "reminiscences. Without touch of egotlsm
or garrulity,-the usual defects OF books oy
| the veterans of past age,-it is written III inc
| ohaste and natural style characteristic oil the
author, with frequent dashes of the happy Vi
yacity which abounds in his previous writings
One of the early recollectiOns of given by the
writer is of the visit of Washington to Cambridge
| in tbe wear 1889. He describes this as follows:
In tLe Autumn Of 1889 George Washington, Presi-
dent of the United States in pursuing his tour through
ew-Tnpland visited Cambridge and its University.
He left the CITY of New York on the morning OF Thurs
day the 18th of October, and passed the following
SUNDAY in New-Hayen. On Monday he resumed his
iou1ney and continued daily the great mail route
through Hartford, Brookfeld and Worcester, arriving
nj " son about ten miles from Cambridge, on Friday
breakfasted Thus far he had probably planned his
STAGES 20 ne 10 reach Weston at the time III which he
accomplished hspurpose, using as he must nave done,
all possible diligence consistent with due regard 10 the
curiosity and the wish TO manifest respect TO mn,
which Rad been shown by the people IN all the towns
and villages through which he passed.
If apuears by the record of the Corporation OF llar
ward COLLEGE at meeting the Friday before named,
that be was expected at Cambridge on tne next Gay,
and II was voted by this body to address the President
of the United States in its official capacity at such ne
as shall suit his convenience Soon after breakfast he
started from Weston, and was met by troop OF morse
| from Cambridge, which escorted him thither lis
entrance into the village by the road on which is
situated the mansion that was his headquarters IN
l7757 &C. still unaeTcd which he csuld not have looked
| uuon without emotion, pass by without looking
within and around it. and experiencing such feelings and
reflections mngling the present and the past az DINERS
can but family imagine His stay at the old headquar
necessarily short. The distance from to the
Cambridge Common, by the avenue winch leads 10 the
| westerly part, is not many rods Al the termination
of This the Common stood and still stands IN
magnificent sze and ramicauons, the Warrington
Elm as il is always called, in conformity with the ira
dhionary fact that it was this spot that Washington
first uusheathed his sword at the head OF his troops
m,rshted for the defense OF the country.
There then nine years of age, distinctly remember
sitting on tie fence before The old house which stu re-
naus at the corner, near the tree and seeing the ma
jesiic warrior mounted on fitting sieed, with all his
tim belonging" pass by. He was there saluted with
discharge of artillery under the direction OF General
Brooks who met him at the head of about thousand
militia in their accustomed uniforms. So proprle
| ~ permitted be left the trimming field, the Common
which in the sterile and unadorned condition
in which he had il thirteen years before and pro-
Ceeded TO Harvard Hall. The College buildings which
| b, had left thirteen years before as barracks then
about to lie abandoned by lls soldiers, he now saw
cloanstd and refed for the OF learned Faculties
and or the residence Of youth in training to take the
places of their fathers The Governors OF the College
were doubtless assembled TO receive him. There could
he 10 embarrassment i'll the reception OF the chief guest
aud those who accompanied him. of which number was
Tobias Lear who had become his private secretary anu
| member of lis household by the recommendation OF
Mr.. Willard and therefore III position to intro
duce the principals to each other. His visit must have
been short ard time was wanting to enable him 10 ex-
tend TO the house of the President of the College
think the ceremonial address of the Corporation must
have been delivered on Tuesday, October q, of the
following week, in Boston, that appears TO have
been tie day ret apart 10y Washington to receive the
addresses of public bodies for instance OF the clergy
OF Boston of the Cincinnati and of the Governor and
Council. That day corresponds with the date of the
addIess and OF the reply. At four oclock of the same
day dinner was given at Faneuil Hall by the Gov
eIor and Council in honor of Washington, the chief
guest at which the President the College present.
The late President Willard has traditional
reputation in Cambridge as a gentleman of the
old school, an efficient presiding officer, and a
scholar Of solid and extensive attachments for
that day. He died in 1904 The following por-
traituTe, together with incidental illustrations
OF sn obsol, tie state of society gives an interest
ing view of
| AN ANCIENT COLLEGE PRESIDENT.
| His physical frame 10 all appearance was uncom-
molly well developed in regard as well 10 symmetry
TO rengih. In high be five feet ten or eleven
| inches. His bead and chest were In due proportion
TO each otter; he latter broad and capecous,
and bis limbs well rouuded with their muscular cover