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 University of California Berkeley 
 
Memorial Exercises in Honor of 
 Martin Kellogg, LL.D., former Presi= 
 dent of the University of California. 
 
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 Memorial Exercises in Honor of 
 Martin Kellogg, LL.D., former Presi* 
 dent of the University. 
 
 September 19, 1903 
 
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MEMORIAL EXERCISES IN HONOR OF 
 MARTIN KELLOGG. 
 
 On Saturday, September 19, 1903, memorial exercises 
 were held in Hearst Hall in honor of the late Martin 
 Kellogg. The following programme was carried out: 
 
 Integer Vitae 
 
 QUARTETTE. 
 
 Integer vitae scelerisque purus 
 Non eget Mauris iaculis neque arcu 
 Nee venenatis gravida sagittis, 
 
 Fusee, pharetra, 
 Sive per Syrtes iter aestuosas 
 Sive facturus per inhospitalem 
 Caucasum vel quae loca fabulosus 
 
 Lambit Hydaspes. 
 
 Q. Horatius Flaccus. 
 
 Address 
 
 WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MERRILL, PH.D., L.H.D. 
 
 Address 
 
 WILLARD BRADLEY RISING, PH.D., M.E. 
 
 Address 
 
 COLUMBUS BARTLETT, ESQ. 
 
 Commemorative Address 
 
 GEORGE HOLMES HOWISON, LL.D. 
 
 Brief Life is here our Portion 
 
 QUARTETTE. 
 
 Brief life is here our portion, 
 
 Brief sorrow, short-liv'd care; 
 
 The life that knows no ending, 
 The tearless life is there ! 
 
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 O happy retribution! 
 
 Short toil, eternal rest, 
 For mortals and for sinners, 
 
 A mansion with the blest ! 
 
 The morning shall awaken, 
 
 The shadows flee away, 
 And each true-hearted servant 
 
 Shall shine as doth the day : 
 For God our King and Portion, 
 
 In fulness of his grace, 
 We then shall see for ever, 
 
 And worship face to face. 
 
 O sweet and blessed country, 
 
 The home of God's elect! 
 O sweet and blessed country 
 
 That eager hearts expect ! 
 Jesu, in mercy bring us 
 
 To that dear land of rest ; 
 Who art, with God the Father, 
 
 And Spirit, ever blest. 
 
 Bernardus Cluniacensis, tr. Neale. 
 
 Addresses were delivered as follows: 
 
 ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR MERRILL. 
 
 It has been my great good fortune to be associated inti- 
 mately with the late Professor Kellogg for nine years. 
 Before coming to California I had known him through the 
 reputation produced by his edition of the Brutus of Cicero, 
 and my first correspondence with him was on some points 
 of criticism suggested by his commentary. Earlier he had 
 published portions of Cicero and Quintilian, and throughout 
 his life these with Horace were his favorite authors. At the 
 opening of his teaching career he gave instruction in mathe- 
 matics, and in the early years of this university he occupied 
 the undivided chair of Greek and Latin. As the University 
 grew in numbers and a separation of the work was advisable, 
 Dr. Kellogg chose Latin rather than Greek, and occupied 
 the Latin chair unil his elevation to the Presidency. A 
 suggestion that he continue as Professor of Latin in con- 
 
MARTIN KELLOGG MEMORIAL EXERCISES. 5 
 
 nection with his higher office was modestly declined, but 
 during his entire administration the welfare of his old 
 department was very near to his heart. 
 
 On his resignation of the presidency he returned to the 
 department as Professor Emeritus, and although he had 
 already earned the rest implied in the title, he insisted from 
 the beginning on doing a man's full tale of work. He died 
 in harness: felix opportunitate mortis. 
 
 Dr. Kellogg was a Roman. By nature sympathetic with 
 Roman ideals, his character was profoundly affected by his 
 intellectual contact with the works of that great people. 
 Like most professors of Latin of the last century he early 
 developed administrative powers, and for many years was 
 active in the administrative work of the university. Roman 
 order, discipline, thoroughness, and above all, reverence for 
 law were prominent traits of his character. He learned to 
 command, did command our academic ship; but on his 
 return to the ranks no member of the faculty was more 
 loyal to his President, to his departmental chief, and to the 
 Faculty. The slightest expression of wish in departmental 
 matters always met with the first response from him; were 
 any reports or any information called for from members of 
 the staff, his was the first response. None had so delicate 
 a feeling as he for the prerogatives of academic rank. 
 
 He appreciated as few do the admirable constitution of 
 the University, the safeguards and checks on every hand 
 which have as their object our academic liberties and those 
 of our students. He was conversant with the long lists of 
 precedents governing the action of the Regents and Faculties, 
 and from his retentive memory at every need his colleagues 
 could learn the legal bearings of any contemplated action. 
 
 In his interpretation of Latin authors Professor Kellogg 
 was a humanist. He valued Latin literature less as a basis 
 for grammatical exercise than for its bearing on actual life. 
 Hence, when with ripe experience of years, after the turmoil 
 of the presidency he returned to the interpretation of Horace, 
 in his St. Martin's summer, he brought to that office a wealth 
 
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 of allusion, an urbane wit, a knowledge of men and things 
 utterly beyond the ability of a younger man. 
 
 As an active minister of the Gospel in early life, the 
 soberness and religious character of the uncorrupted Roman 
 of the time of the Republic attracted him. The Stoic ethics, 
 as interpreted by Cicero, was particularly congenial to his 
 nature, and for this year he had given laborious preparation 
 to the interpretation of Cicero's Offices. Roman frugality, 
 unobtrusive piety, faithful obedience, fidelity to duty at any 
 cost these were his virtues also. His way in life was to 
 act, not to talk; to be, not to seem; to do, not to promise; 
 for the Romans, says Ruskin, did more and said less than 
 any other nation that ever lived. 
 
 Another Roman virtue was patience. They suffer, they 
 are silent, said Cicero. Man is born to trouble as the sparks 
 fly upward, and the evil which falls to every human lot, 
 whether it comes in the vigor of youth, the strength of 
 middle life, or in the infirmity of age, in a man's varied 
 relations, he bore without repining. In quietness and 
 confidence was his strength. The end crowns the work ; he 
 waited patiently for that end serenely confident of the 
 final judgment. 
 
 And fortitude and temperance were his also. Brave in 
 maintaining essentials although yielding in less important 
 details, even and placid in disposition, he kept himself under 
 with thorough self-control. Whatever was going on behind 
 that sphynx-like countenance even his closest friends could 
 only surmise. Self -reverence, self-knowledge, self-control 
 these led his life to sovereign power. He was willing to 
 listen to every argument, but the decision was his own, and 
 frequently registered without apology or explanation. 
 
 He was systematic in his conduct of life; and his time 
 was well ordered. And here again Roman system and order 
 were traits of his character. Never hurried, as provision 
 had been made for each task in its proper sequence, he 
 administered his life so well that even the Censor Cato would 
 have approved. And when the end came all was in order; 
 
MARTIN KELLOGG MEMORIAL EXERCISES. 1 
 
 nothing was left undone. lustus et tenax propositi sui, 
 which was to live a life of usefulness and of stainless integ- 
 rity; he has joined the great majority. His influence and 
 his example will abide with us long. Vir strenuus, honestus, 
 pius, fidelis. May our end be as his! 
 
 ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR RISING. 
 
 The lot of taking part in these exercises has fallen to 
 me because of my longer acquaintance and longer associa- 
 tion with our deceased colleague. My part will be to 
 present to you the statistics of his life. 
 
 President Martin Kellogg, youngest son of deacon 
 Allyn Kellogg, was born in Vernon, Connecticut, March 
 13, 1828. He was a descendant in the seventh generation of 
 Martin Kellogg, of Braintree, Essex, England, who was 
 born November 23, 1595. Martin Kellogg was a family 
 name and appears many times in the family genealogy. 
 President Kellogg had one brother older than himself, who 
 was graduated from Williams College and afterwards entered 
 the ministry, but was obliged to give up that calling on 
 account of a growing infirmity. An uncle was for many 
 years a professor in Williams College. Of President 
 Kellogg' s early life but few particulars or incidents have 
 come under my notice. 
 
 In a charming article contributed to the Over land Monthly 
 under the title "My Grandfather's Farm" he has himself 
 given us a glimpse of his boyhood days: "In a quiet 
 country town of New England is a farm that used to be 
 my earthly paradise. My own father's place was pleasant 
 in its way, but it called for a little too much work from 
 the time when a boy could ride a horse to plow out corn or 
 follow the hay- cart with a rake. My grandfather's farm, 
 on the contrary, was a place for infinite leisure and sport. 
 The standing invitation he gave was to 'come down and do 
 up the mischief.'" He closes with the following: "Enough 
 
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 as to the farm and farm-house. They were but the setting 
 for their precious jewels the human hearts and lives that 
 found there a home. The head of the house was born on* 
 the spot, and was a genuine son of the soil. Modest, yet 
 self-reliant, kind to all, but a sturdy supporter of justice, 
 well balanced, full of uncommon common sense, of the 
 strictest integrity, respected and beloved by his neighbors, 
 often an arbiter in personal differences, called not un- 
 frequently to places of public trust, this plain New England 
 gentleman was the type of a class that grows ever smaller 
 in New England. It was from the best blood of the 
 Puritans and had the Puritan steadfastness and energy, 
 blended with the Old English heartiness and the true New 
 English devotion to the well welfare of others. Of my 
 grandmother it is enough to say that she was a helpmate 
 for such a husband self -forgetting, generous, lovable, 
 sensible, beneficent. Her descendants rise up and call her 
 blessed. In my humble opinion it is hard to find a finer 
 type of character than that of this farmer and farmer's 
 wife. * * * ." He closes this sketch in the following 
 words: "I lately passed the old spot, on the new railway 
 skirting the hills. The house does not look as large as it 
 used to; the trees are thinned and a little dwarfed. The 
 whole valley is somewhat neglected and degenerate. So 
 passes away the glory of many an old New England 
 community." 
 
 President Kellogg received his preparation for college at 
 Williston Seminary, Easthampton. He entered Yale College 
 and was graduated in 1850. As the most distinguished 
 scholar of his class he pronounced the valedictory oration 
 on his commencement day. In his class he was the warm 
 and intimate friend of Professor H. A. Newton, the dis- 
 tinguished astronomer of Yale college. 
 
 After his graduation he entered Union Theological 
 Seminary, 1851-52. He then spent a year, 1852-53, in 
 Andover, returned to Union, 1853-54, and graduated. 
 He was resident licentiate in Yale 1854-55. 
 
MARTIN KELLOGG MEMORIAL EXERCISES. 9 
 
 At this time he turned his eyes westward, attracted by 
 the needs of the Pacific Coast. He became a home 
 missionary, came to California in 1855 and was settled in 
 Grass Valley and Shasta. From 1855 till 1861 we find him 
 doing home missionary work among the miners and gold- 
 hunters of that day. 
 
 In the meantime Dr. Durant, who came to California 
 a self-appointed missionary of education, had brought 
 together the most hopeful and helpful men of the coast, 
 and the college school was the rallying point of the higher 
 education. When the time came to open the college in 
 August, 1859, the trustees met and elected two professors, 
 Dr. Durant and Dr. Kellogg. No fitter appointments were 
 ever made by any board of trustees; Durant, the untiring, 
 self-sacrificing missionary of education, and Kellogg the 
 quiet and accomplished scholar. In 1860 the college opened 
 with eight students. 
 
 The friends of the college of California soon realized, 
 perhaps a little reluctantly, that they could best serve the 
 cause of education by joining their forces and means to the 
 state university to be created under the Morrill Bill. Presi- 
 dent Kellogg was from the first an active supporter of this 
 policy. He was professor of Latin in the College from 
 1861 to the time when the college gave up its existence to 
 the University in 1869. 
 
 On September 3, 1863, President Kellogg was married 
 in Ellington, Connecticut, to Miss Louisa Wells Brockway. 
 Two children were born of this marriage, both of whom 
 died in infancy. It would be impossible to convey the 
 sorrow and sadness which the death of these children 
 brought to parental hearts. Their birth had awakened 
 the fondest hopes and ambitions, which their death 
 destroyed. The whole current of their after lives was 
 entirely changed. 
 
 In September, 1869, the University of California opened, 
 with President Kellogg in the chair of Latin and Greek. 
 In 1874 President Gilman accepted the Presidency, and in 
 
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 the work he was called to do he found Professor Kellogg 
 one of his wisest and most loyal supporters. He was the 
 dean of the College of Letters from the beginning up to 
 1885. In 1876 he was relieved of the Greek language, and 
 his title became Professor of the Latin Language and 
 Literature. Upon the resignation of Hon. Horace Davis 
 in 1890 he was made acting president, 1890-93. In 1893 
 he was made President, inaugurated on Charter Day of 
 that year, March 23, 1893, and on that day he received 
 from his Alma Mater the honorary degree of Doctor of 
 Laws. He resigned the Presidency of the University in 
 1899, and in September started with Mrs. Kellogg on a trip 
 around the world. He returned the following year, and 
 took up again the work of active instruction, which he 
 continued almost to the day of his death. 
 
 From 1874 to 1876 he served the town of Berkeley as 
 President of the Board of Education. In recognition of 
 his services the first school organized in the town was 
 named the "Kellogg School." 
 
 During his nearly half-century's residence on this coast, 
 he served the Congregational Church in almost every 
 position, minister, deacon, trustee, liberal supporter. 
 
 His earthly career closed August 26, 1903. 
 
 Cherished be his memory. 
 
 ADDRESS BY COLUMBUS BAKTLETT. 
 
 We have met to-day to honor the memory of Dr. Martin 
 Kellogg. His life was a part of that of our University, so 
 long had he been associated with it as professor and pres- 
 ident; so closely identified with it in his hopes, and his 
 endeavors; and so deep the impress that he made upon its 
 work and its ideals. As one who knew him well as his 
 co-worker in the Board of Regents, I am here to pay a 
 loving tribute to his memory. 
 
 For a number of years prior to his elevation to the 
 
MARTIN KELLOGG MEMORIAL EXERCISES. 11 
 
 presidency, the University had been, struggling against 
 adverse circumstances and it was yet a question whether 
 it would finally take its place among the great institutions 
 of learning. 
 
 Before the passage of the act of 1887, by which a tax 
 of one cent on each one hundred dollars worth of property 
 assessed in the State was paid for the support of the Uni- 
 versity, its income was uncertain, and dependent upon the 
 caprice of every session of the Legislature. It was neces- 
 sary for the President to visit Sacramento during each 
 session and to lobby for a sufficient appropriation to con- 
 duct the institution for the next two years. Under these 
 conditions, progress was necessarily slow and intermittent. 
 Added to that, the University's constant change of pres- 
 idents prevented the adoption of a strong educational 
 policy which could be consistently carried on. The pres- 
 idency of the institution seemed to have knocked about 
 from pillar to post, there having been no less than three 
 presidents, or acting presidents, between the years 1885 
 and 1890. The faculty, also, suffered in this period of 
 unrest. 
 
 The first thing that led to a better condition of affairs 
 was the passage of the one cent tax, making the revenue of 
 the University certain and definite. The next thing was to 
 find an administrator to place in charge of the growing 
 institution who could harmonize conflicting elements and 
 adopt a strong and consistent educational policy to which 
 the institution could be committed for a number of years. 
 But the task of securing such a head for the University 
 was not an easy one. 
 
 President Eliot of Harvard University, wrote me in 
 1890, when, as Chairman of the Committee of the Board of 
 Regents on the appointment of a President, I wrote him for 
 advice : 
 
 "I feel under a good deal of embarrassment in replying, 
 for my observation is that gentlemen imported into Cali- 
 fornia to fill this office stay but a very short time. 
 
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 "It seems to me that the Regents might best seek a 
 gentleman who has been long enough in California to 
 understand the government, resources and prospects of the 
 University, and to be known somewhat to the community 
 which he is to serve. 
 
 "Is there not someone among the professors of the 
 University who might be promoted to the presidency? A 
 professor of true merit who has already lived at Berkeley 
 some years and is favorably known to the graduates of the 
 University seems to be the most natural candidate for the 
 vacant place. 
 
 "In your case, it seems to me that you run another 
 considerable risk if you take a president who has not lived 
 in California. The tenures of the presidents of your Uni- 
 versity for the past twenty years have been very short and 
 for the sake of the University, it seems to me very desirable 
 that you should now get a president who will hold the 
 office for a respectable number of years." 
 
 At about the same time, President Daniel G. Gilman of 
 Johns Hopkins University, wrote: 
 
 "I doubt whether there is anyone who can fill the post 
 of President of the University of California so well as 
 Professor Martin Kellogg. He knows the situation thor- 
 oughly; he has learning, tact, fidelity and the ability to 
 make a good speech. He has excellent business habits, and 
 he resides in Berkeley. I feel confident that his selection 
 to this important post would never be regretted." 
 
 The opinion of President Gilman was shortly afterwards 
 embraced by the Regents, and President Kellogg was made 
 acting president, and, later, President of the University of 
 California. 
 
 Among the principal problems that confronted his 
 administration were: First, the harmonizing of elements 
 in the faculties so that all should work together for the 
 common good, and their strengthening by the addition of 
 strong men and the elimination of weak ones. Second, 
 the extension and broadening of the University's work; 
 
MARTIN KELLOGG MEMORIAL EXERCISES. 13 
 
 and third, the creation of friendly and useful educational 
 relations between the University and the secondary schools. 
 
 During the first years of his administration, the president 
 was assisted by a committee of the regents known as the 
 Committee on Internal Administration, on which I had the 
 honor to serve. To this committee many of the questions 
 that arose between the faculties and the president, and the 
 faculties and the students were referred, and it was while 
 thus associated with Dr. Kellogg that I learned to appre- 
 ciate his real worth. 
 
 Though his was an excessive modesty, and though always 
 careful not to force or obtrude his views upon others, his 
 character was strong and his judgments sound. His counsel 
 was always sought for and always worth having. In speech 
 he was direct and clear, and his grasp of all subjects dis- 
 cussed, thorough. His sincerity and his earnest desire to 
 do justice to all were dominant qualities. In discussion, his 
 attitude was judicial and his judgments marked by a 
 deep charity toward his fellow men. These are the 
 qualities that won for him the respect and cooperation of 
 the faculty, and that prepared the way for the greater 
 educational growth that was to come to our Universit3 r . 
 With a united and progressive faculty, animated by high 
 ideals, the University made rapid strides toward its rightful 
 place among the foremost educational institutions of the 
 land. 
 
 The years that followed his inauguration as president 
 brought ever increasing numbers to these halls. The 
 problems of housing them and of providing the highest 
 character of instruction for their needs were indeed difficult. 
 How well they were solved is well known to you all. 
 From a comparatively small institution composed of a few 
 literary colleges and technical scientific schools, a great and 
 unified University has been built. A college of natural 
 sciences and a college of commerce were founded, and a 
 great impetus given to graduate study. Work in biology, 
 in others of the natural sciences and in art, received great 
 
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 encouragement and the complete and rounded development 
 of a great institution began. The Affiliated Colleges came 
 into closer relations with the colleges at Berkeley, and in 
 them, too, the vivifying influences of a broad and scholarly 
 policy soon made themselves felt. 
 
 While these changes were taking place within the Uni- 
 versity, Dr. Kellogg realized that they would redound to 
 the benefit of the State in proportion as they reached the 
 body of its citizens. As he wrote in his annual statement 
 for the year 1897-8: 
 
 "The social and civic welfare of a community is the 
 thing of highest value. There must be men and women of 
 approved character who will be intelligent and influential 
 examples of integrity and a power for good, an unfailing 
 stock to draw upon for the highest public service. Such 
 citizens are the product of an education both broad and 
 high." 
 
 To accomplish this he realized that the roots of the 
 University must be in the hearts of the people ; that the sap 
 that is to nourish the tree of wisdom and of life, that is to 
 spread its broad and sheltering branches over the State and 
 Nation, must come from the heart-blood of the sons and 
 daughters of California. 
 
 How was this to be accomplished? How was the Uni- 
 versity to be put in touch with every citizen of this State? 
 How was every community, nay, every family to be 
 strengthened by University culture? This question could 
 be solved only by making it easy for everyone to come to 
 the University, not by lowering the University's standards, 
 but by multiplying the avenues by which it can be reached; 
 in other words by bringing it into closer relations with the 
 secondary schools. During Dr. Kellogg' s administration, 
 this system, though not inaugurated, was established upon 
 a firm basis and attained the highest success. 
 
 The love of the State for its University, not as an idle 
 sentiment, but as an appreciation of its power for good, of 
 its ennobling influence upon the lives of the men and women 
 
MARTIN KELLOGG MEMORIAL EXERCISES. 15 
 
 who throng its halls, as the creation of good citizens, honors 
 the memory of man far more than graven stone or marble 
 mausoleum. And as one who has been a chief worker 
 toward this end, the name of Dr. Martin Kellogg will always 
 be held in grateful and loving memory by every Calif ornian . 
 
 ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR HOWISON. 
 
 We are once more assembled, after what seems indeed 
 but short surcease of sorrow, to give expression to our sense 
 of a great loss, a bereavement of the University and the 
 community alike. It is only a brief two years since we 
 gathered here to honor the memory of Joseph LeConte; and 
 now we are summoned, too soon for our wishes, to note the 
 passing and commemorate the services of Martin Kellogg, 
 the last of the three high spirits to whom the wise judgment 
 of our first Board of Regents committed the serious task of 
 inaugurating the internal life of the University. John 
 LeConte, Martin Kellogg, Joseph LeConte, these, in the 
 order of their appointment, were the three men, genuine 
 scholars and weighty characters, to whom was intrusted the 
 work of planning and setting in operation the institution 
 which it is no exaggeration to call the most important 
 organ of the spiritual life of this State. Sincere and unre- 
 served can our gratitude be to the Regents, who by these 
 admirable appointments so truly fulfilled the trust com- 
 mitted to their care. How worthy a triad our three notable 
 founders of the Faculties formed ! And now that the last 
 of them, after the longest service, has gone from us, we 
 can perhaps make something like a just estimate of his 
 contribution to the great cause which we all have so much 
 at heart. 
 
 In setting out upon this estimate, while we credit to the 
 full the part taken by the Regents, and even more by the 
 first two Presidents of the University, Durant and Gilman, 
 let us not fail to recognize that the real designers and inau- 
 gurators of the internal organism of the institution were 
 
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 John LeConte, Martin Kellogg, and Joseph LeConte, acting 
 in sympathetic concert. Nor may we neglect to go in some 
 important regards farther, and realize that Martin Kellogg 
 was the founder of the University, and of its interior life, 
 in a sense in which neither of his distinguished colleagues 
 was, or could be. He was the first and chief connecting- 
 link between the University and its forerunner the College 
 of California. It is simple matter of history, made also 
 matter of record and solemn authentication in the Organic 
 Act establishing the University, and afterwards incorporated 
 in the State Constitution, that had not the College previ- 
 ously come into successful existence through the devoted 
 efforts of a group of men, chiefly, like Professor Kellogg 
 himself, educated at Yale, and had not the self-renoun- 
 cing public spirit of the Trustees of the College, among whom 
 were graduates of Harvard, Dartmouth, and Hamilton, as 
 well as of Yale, led them to disincorporate and give the 
 State their whole property for the sake of a greater institu- 
 tion, the University would never have come into being; 
 never, at any rate, as the comprehensive home of wide cul- 
 ture and humane research that it actually is; if it had come at 
 all, it would only have been as a School of Applied Sciences. 
 It is therefore but plain justice that now, in law as well as 
 in settled public opinion, the old College is recognized as a 
 part, and the inceptive part, of the University; so that Pro- 
 fessor Kellogg, who was identified with the College from its 
 beginning, as one of the two professors first appointed in it, 
 was in fact the only member of our interior body who had 
 belonged to the institution from its very origin even from 
 its prenatal days. For three-and-forty years he had been 
 its unceasing builder and its devoted servant. 
 
 In these hours of commemoration, to be sure, we must 
 not and cannot forget the part played by a preeminent asso- 
 ciate of Professor Kellogg in the College Dr. Horatio Steb- 
 bins. the last president of its Board of Trustees; without 
 whose planning wisdom and public skill, the acceptance of 
 the proposals made by the Trustees of the College would 
 
MARTIN KELLOGG MEMORIAL EXERCISES. 17 
 
 probably not have been gained from the State. But promi- 
 nent founder of the institution though Dr. Stebbins unques- 
 tionably was, passing over from Trustee of the College into 
 Regent of the University, to exert for twenty-six years a 
 commanding influence in the Board, and deep as is the debt 
 we all to-day owe him, and shall continue to owe him so long 
 as our State endures, Professor Kellogg was our founder in 
 a yet more intimate, a still deeper sense. It was in his 
 person first though, later, also in that of President Durant 
 that the great, the vital principle of comprehensive humane 
 culture, essential as the organizing factor in the life of the 
 new institution, passed forward from the narrower field it 
 held in the College into the vastly enlarged one afforded by 
 the University. Fortunate was it for him, fortunate for us 
 his successors, most fortunate for the State and its coming 
 generations of youth, that his two eminent colleagues, John 
 and Joseph LeConte, though appointed to represent the 
 sciences of Nature, were both men of genuine and disci- 
 plined love of Man. Fortunate also was he, and fortunate 
 the University, in having for first President so accomplished 
 a scholar in the large humanities, so penetrating a thinker 
 of the Platonic type, as Henry Durant. The happy and 
 cordial cooperation of these four minds effected the first 
 surveys, and the secure opening, of the broad roadways 
 which we now possess to an inclusive culture, based on 
 sound learning in letters, in science, and in philosophy. It 
 was this that made us a University, a body of scholars in 
 diver sis versati in unum versi; occupied with things diverse, 
 but all bent on one thing the fulness of a high human 
 character, with all the enlightenment, all the refinement, 
 and all the devotion, that goes to its making. 
 
 So this day is one of grateful commemoration rather than 
 of sad lament, this hour an hour of consolation rather than 
 of grief. Grief at our profound bereavement we do indeed 
 have, and cannot but have; for we miss the converse of our 
 revered and admirable eldest brother; and, long as he had 
 been here, we yet feel as if we had lost him all too soon, so 
 
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 intact did he still appear both in body and in mind, so stable 
 in a quiet maturity that kept its powers of judgment, and even 
 of acquisition, quite unimpaired: so much so, that he might 
 well have said, turning Solon's words into his instinctive 
 Latin, Senesco continenter discens , finding, as he did, on his 
 return to his chosen studies and teaching, insight fresher 
 than of old, with a still keener relish for imparting it. But 
 though his removal from among us seems thus unexpected, 
 and for us so untimely, we cannot but have its pang softened 
 by a consoling sense of what he was and what he succeeded 
 in effecting. Our comfort is in our confidence that what he 
 was, and the results he has left us, are alike for us imper- 
 ishable. 
 
 Accordingly our truest use of this memorial hour will 
 be the meditation of his excellence excellence of public 
 service, founded on excellence of character. For never, I 
 suspect, was there a man of whom it was more true that 
 what he officially did was the outcome, simple, direct, and 
 almost unstudied, of what he inwardly was. So let us 
 consider awhile his work, and afterwards the very marked 
 character in which it had its source. 
 
 I. 
 
 Of our honored colleague's exterior achievement the 
 biographical framework of his career, his attainment of 
 successive professional positions, and, especially, his execu- 
 tion of his duties as this was seen by his colleagues in the 
 Board of Regents you have already heard from the speakers 
 who have preceded me. Our part now is, rather, to recall 
 the successive aspects of his work in our more interior 
 academic life, and report our sense of its quality in the 
 several functions he fulfilled there; to tell also how he bore 
 his part as a citizen, interested in all the problems of public 
 education and in public problems generally. We may get 
 in this way some definite sense of the debt which we all really 
 owe him, both we of the University and you of the Town 
 and of the State. 
 
MARTIN KELLOGG MEMORIAL EXERCISES. 19 
 
 All of his work was viewed and directed by him with the 
 single eye of the sincere scholar, devoted to his professional 
 ideal as it was given him to understand this ; and his under- 
 standing of it was clear and high. His scholarship was 
 sound and real, coming from a genuine vocation for the 
 field in which his studies and his professorial labors fell 
 the field of classical literature and archeology, especially 
 that of Rome. He came to his baccalaureate at Yale, to be 
 sure, an all-round young scholar, standing foremost in his 
 class, and at the time of his first appointment in the College 
 of California still retained so much of this comprehensive 
 accuracy as to be fitted for the duties of a mathematical 
 professor which he was at first appointed as these were 
 at that time usually conducted. But there can be no doubt 
 that his bent was to classical letters, to the historical under- 
 standing of the ancients, and most of all to the study of 
 their oratory. Further, though his first professorship in 
 the University covered the whole field of the classics, Greek 
 as well as Latin, it is plain that his nature engaged him to 
 Rome rather than to Greece. The sober pragmatism of 
 his mind, its earnest demand for power to turn all ideas into 
 serviceable action, and for a test of all thought by its prac- 
 ticability, was naturally repelled a little by the speculative 
 and poetic freedom of the Greeks, which in taking wing 
 seems to set responsibility at defiance, and thus to prepare the 
 way for a deserved catastrophe in the political and historical 
 failure which befell it. His whole character, indeed, was 
 Roman, as we shall clearly see when we later consider it in 
 detail. It is therefore only natural to find him erelong 
 shifting to the more definite professorship of the Latin 
 language and literature, as the university department of 
 which he was so long to be the successful head; and every 
 bit of his published work in the formal capacity of scholar 
 is concerned with Latin only. Here was his province, and 
 all of his published performance bears out his right to it by 
 patent of nature and of power. 
 
 His native modesty, his almost shrinking reserve, his 
 
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 horror of superfluity, led him to be chary of publication. 
 Yet he signalized each important stage of his professional 
 career by an appropriate issue, though for each he required 
 the motive of some practical need, manifest and pressing. 
 Thus, soon after taking charge of the Latin chair in the 
 College of California, he published an essay on Latin Pro- 
 nunciation, which was then a subject of urgent practical 
 debate in the schools. In this he presented the argument 
 in favor of the English Method, as it is called, with a brevity, 
 comprehensiveness, and solid good-sense that could hardly 
 have been surpassed, showing himself in full possession of 
 the points of the discussion as scholars then understood them ; 
 and, in adhering to the pronunciation which the scholars 
 of England all maintain to the present day, he displayed, as 
 I for one am willing to declare, what may well claim to be 
 the soundest judgment for English-speaking people. His 
 own practice in our university instruction, I suppose yielded 
 at length to the increasing pressure of prevailing usage in 
 the United States ; but this was the effect of another factor 
 in his uninsistent, modest, and practical nature, his nature 
 as a Roman of the patiently enduring type; though we can 
 easily imagine that all the while he r < thought to himself 
 quite the same, in spite of the outward concession. 
 
 Next, in discharge of his duties as Latin professor in the 
 University, he early made a selection of passages from Cicero 
 and Quintilian, constituting together, in the order in which 
 he arranged them, an almost consecutive treatise on the 
 right practice of eloquence. To this, borrowing the hint 
 from the Ars Poetica of Horace, he gave the title of Ars 
 Oratorio,, annotating it with sententious brevity, excellent 
 judgment, and ample learning. As one runs the eye over 
 its pages, and notes the deep ethical foundations upon which 
 these two noble Roman writers declare that true oratory 
 must be built, it is easy to see how the editor, Roman as he 
 too was, though illumined by Christian light, laid much 
 store by the all but Christian morals of these two great 
 minds, and thought no brief course of reading in the Latin 
 
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 classics could better be offered to modern youth than this 
 compilation from them. And, indeed, he was well within 
 his right. Significant of the quality in Cicero's thought 
 upon which our high-minded colleague based his judgment is 
 this sentence, written in October 1873 by Josiah Royce, then a 
 youth, and a student under Professor Kellogg, on the fly-leaf 
 of his copy of the Ars Oratoria: Nihil est aliud eloquentia 
 nisi copiose loquens sapiential And of yet deeper tenor are 
 these sentences, samples only, in the selections from Quin- 
 tilian: Sit ergo nobis orator is, qui a Catone fmitur, vir 
 bonus dicendi peritus; verum, id quod et ille posuit prius, 
 et ipsa natura potius ac majus est, utique vir bonus. . . . 
 Neque enim tantumid dico, eum, qui sit orator, virum bomnn 
 esse oportere, sed ne futurum quidem orator em nisi virum 
 bonum. . . . Oratoris vita cum scientia divinarum rerum 
 sit Jiumanarumque conjuncta.^ No wonder that the serious 
 heart, the refined judgment, of our colleague echoed deeply 
 to sentiments like these; to such, surely, every mind rightly 
 bred will echo, now and always. No wonder that our 
 scholar asks, in his brief and pungent note on the passage 
 from which they are taken, "May an advocate defend a bad 
 cause?" and then replies: "Those who, at this late day, and 
 in a Christian nation, answer in the affirmative, are respect- 
 fully referred to this decision of the old Roman teacher, 
 Certe non convenit ei, quern oratorem esse volumus, injusta 
 tueri scientem, . . . neque defendet omnes orator ."J 
 
 Finally, in 1889, while abroad on leave of absence after 
 eighteen years of unbroken university service, Professor 
 Kellogg published the results of the studies which he had 
 silently and unobtrusively been pursuing, in such leisure 
 
 * "Eloquence is nothing but wisdom speaking aboundingly." 
 t"For us, then, be he the orator, who is denned by Cato as a good man 
 skilled in speech; in truth, that which this great man put first, and is by its 
 very nature preferable and greater, namely, a good man. . . . For I do not 
 merely say that he who is an orator ought to be a good man, but that he will 
 not be an orator at all, unless he is a good man. . . . Be the orator's life 
 bound up with the knowledge of things divine as well as human." 
 
 1 "Surely, it becomes not him whom we are willing to rank an orator 
 knowingly to protect injustice, . . . nor will the orator defend all men." 
 
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 as he could command, I mean his edition of the Brutus of 
 Cicero. The reception of this by leading authorities in 
 England settled the question of his scholarship, if this needed 
 testimonies, and yet the settlement very likely came with a 
 sudden and half-rebuking surprise to many who had known 
 him long as a townsman and friend, or even as a colleague, 
 but through his excessive modesty and his retiring silence 
 had been prevented from suspecting the breadth and the 
 thoroughness of his learning. Fortunately, you have not in 
 this matter to depend on the slenderly qualified judgment of 
 your present speaker, but can resort to the highest critical 
 opinion of scholars abroad. Said the London Athenceum, 
 in its issue of February 8, 1890: "This valuable contribu- 
 tion from the University of California towards a study of 
 Cicero's oratorical works will open British eyes to the devel- 
 opment of classical studies in America. It is quite worthy 
 to rank with Prof essorWilkins'sZte Orator e andDr . Sandys 's 
 Orator. . . . The commentary is excellent." The Saturday 
 Review, which is nothing if not fault-finding, and can never 
 forego an ill-natured fling at any hole discovered in an 
 American coat, said, in its number for July 27, 1889, after 
 some of its usual captious remarks: "In respect to the 
 historical, literary, and archaaological allusions, and in its 
 admirable indices, Professor Kellogg' s book deserves the 
 highest praise." And, in the London Classical Revieiv for 
 October 1889, Professor Sandys himself wrote: "The 
 work deserves to be warmly welcomed in England." After 
 some criticisms upon sundry minutiae, he added: "The 
 book as a whole is such an excellent piece of work that it 
 ought to be extensively used by English-speaking students 
 on both sides of the Atlantic." 
 
 We can therefore take a just satisfaction, secure from 
 every apprehension, in the work of our colleague as a 
 scholar. It was quiet, unpretending, unheralded, but 
 solid, accurate, judicious, of a true distinction. 
 
 On his return from Europe in 1890, Professor Kellogg 
 began his service in our highest administrative office. In 
 
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 reality, if not in form, he was President of the University 
 from that time, though he began his duties under the title 
 of Acting President, which the Regents conferred upon 
 him, together with a seat in their Board, when his colleagues 
 of the Academic Council elected him to serve as their chair- 
 man during the vacancy in the office of President. In 1893, 
 after a long inquiry into the merits of presidential can- 
 didates, the Regents by a pronounced majority appointed 
 him President, confirming the already expressed choice of 
 a still stronger majority of his colleagues; these had long 
 before tested his administrative quality, first by his many 
 years of service as Dean of the Faculties, and later by his 
 performance as their chairman during a previous vacancy 
 in the presidency. He voluntarily laid the presidential 
 office down in the summer of 1899. In effect, then, he was 
 the actual head of the University for nine years, and we 
 had the benefit of his administrative abilities noticeably 
 longer than those of any President who preceded him. 
 
 It is only the simple truth to say that he displayed in 
 this office administrative traits of a very high order, and 
 brought to the University various advantages of the utmost 
 importance, during a period grave with many impending 
 dangers. Into the internal life of the University he brought 
 an increase of harmony, and into its relations with the 
 public schools a distribution of reciprocal confidence and 
 sympathy. The results were presently seen in a growth 
 that became remarkable and, with an attendant and equal 
 improvement in the chief internal relations, gave to his 
 administration the sanction of visible success. The nine 
 years of his presidential service saw the attendance of 
 students at Berkeley increase from less than five hundred 
 to more than seventeen hundred, and in the whole Univer- 
 sity, inclusive of the Professional Schools, from less than 
 eight hundred to more than twenty-four hundred. During 
 the same period, the staff of instruction at Berkeley and at 
 the Lick Observatory grew from something over fifty to 
 more than a hundred and fifty professors, instructors, and 
 
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 assistants and, in the entire University, from a hundred 
 and twenty-five to upwards of three hundred and fifty. That 
 is, during his term of service he saw the total number of 
 students multiplied three times and a seventh, and the 
 total of the teaching staff twice and four- fifths; while at 
 Berkeley, alone, the student attendance was not far from 
 quadrupled, and the staff was nearly trebled. He also had 
 the gratification of seeing the Legislature, in response to 
 these striking proofs of the growing importance and 
 increasing needs of the University, double its resources 
 derived from the permanent annual tax, which was enlarged 
 from one cent on each hundred dollars of the total valuation 
 in the State to two cents on the same. Numerous and 
 important new buildings were added and equipped; new 
 laboratories were established, among them the laboratory 
 for experimental psychology; abundant scholarships and 
 fellowships were founded; new professorships were organ- 
 ized and filled; and the Phoebe Hearst Architectural Plan 
 was projected and carried to a completion that commanded 
 the respectful attention of the world. Answering to all 
 these increments of external resource and advantage, the 
 academic life within grew more complex and richer; the 
 quality as well as the scope of the work improved; so that 
 the institution could justly claim to have become one of the 
 great centres of educational life, and was everywhere 
 acknowledged to be such. 
 
 Hence, when our honored friend laid his office down 
 and took his well-earned respite from its burdens, he could 
 do so not only with the consenting commendations of his 
 associates in the Faculties, but also with the best-founded 
 sense that his labors had in fact not been in vain : that he 
 had conferred upon the institution, in addition to all the 
 advantages which his earlier services had brought, still 
 other and even greater benefits; and that he was handing 
 the University back to the Regents stronger and greater in 
 every respect than it was when he received it from them. 
 His had been, as already mentioned, much the longest term 
 
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 of presidential duty known in the University hitherto; and 
 not the least service he had rendered, I judge, was his 
 breaking the baleful precedent which had led the outside 
 world to assume, no matter how incorrectly, that our 
 presidency was under some dark hoodoo, so that it was 
 impossible for a capable administrator to continue long in 
 office. That there was little or nothing in this outside 
 assumption is undoubtedly true; but it was none the less 
 harmful; and a great good was done when at length it was 
 effectually dissipated. 
 
 It remains now to speak of his more general activities 
 of those employments which concerned him rather as a 
 citizen than as a member of the academic world. Somewhat 
 silent scholar though he was, he had a deep sense of civil 
 and political duty, was active as a citizen, and carried 
 weight as a judge upon all important public questions. 
 Yet all these he constantly approached in the temper of the 
 cultivated thinker, the studious scholar. Hence his services 
 as a citizen take chiefly the form of public addresses or of 
 published writings on questions of public concern. A 
 partial collection of these, from various sources, forming a 
 considerable volume kept in the University Library, shows 
 the scope, the earnestness, and the weight of his thought 
 on important issues of his time. This list of twenty-five 
 papers is manifestly but a portion of his whole product, as 
 it only covers the period from October 1873 to October 
 1893; yet the range of topics is large and important 
 common schools, higher education, careers for scholars, 
 endowments, literature and art, morals and religion, 
 character in relation to politics, historical research, the 
 labor problem, and so on. That he continued this activity 
 long beyond the latest date of this collection, throughout 
 his presidency and nearly to the end of his life, we all 
 know; and part of our duty to his services and his memory 
 would clearly seem to be, that a proper collection of his 
 occasional writings, duly selected from his whole period of 
 production, should be made, and published in permanent 
 
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 form. He was, as we also know, in love with oratory 
 which he regarded as a fine art, strictly creative and was 
 himself master of an excellent style, superior in clearness 
 and in diction, sound in idiom, agreeable in tone and color, 
 and of a simplicity suited to the man. 
 
 If we look, then, at the actual work achieved by our 
 colleague, whether as contributor to our foundations, as 
 scholar, as head of department, as head of the University, 
 or as public character generally, it is impossible not to 
 assign to him, though in his sensitive modesty he would 
 have been the last to claim and the most loth to accept it, 
 the meed of a signal success. A gladness, comforting in 
 the midst of our loss, irresistibly pervades our thoughts 
 when we thus realize that ~WQ have had for so many fruitful 
 years yes, almost without knowing it the professional 
 and social companionship of a man, a scholar, an admin- 
 istrator, a citizen, of unmistakable and most decided mark. 
 His memory will blend naturally and worthily with that of 
 the brothers LeConte, adding permanent lustre to the 
 institution which he so long adorned, and to the Town and 
 the State of which he was so serviceable a member. 
 
 II. 
 
 And yet, when we now go on to ask for the explanation of 
 all this excellent performance, it will become evident that, 
 as I have indicated already, the cause was not in any cal- 
 culated plan or studied policy, carefully contrived and 
 applied. This success in action was, rather, the spontaneous 
 expression of a deeply-seated character, bred in the man 
 quite apart from any of his fields of effort, and independent 
 of them. The explanation is, in short, the man himself. 
 There are two sorts of successful endeavorers, two methods 
 of success : one wins by character and talent working after 
 plans the most deliberately thought out and the most adroitly 
 applied ; the other wins simply by exercising and applying 
 the indwelling character, as circumstances give it oppor- 
 tunity or the settled occupation affords it field. Success, in 
 
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 this latter case, when the success is in great things, is the 
 highest witness to great character; and then the study of 
 the character becomes in a high degree interesting and 
 significant. 
 
 The success of the friend who has gone from us, his 
 varied achievement as educational founder, as scholar, as 
 administrative head, as citizen, was owing, I repeat, to this 
 spontaneous expression and application of character. We 
 are led, then, to detect, if possible, and to describe, what 
 this so effective character was. What were its leading traits, 
 and how, perchance, did they come to be? 
 
 I think we can best gain the clue to it by noticing that 
 its possessor accounted his main vocation to be the stimu- 
 lation of virtue by the teaching of Latin literature. That 
 is, he liked things Roman ^ and thought them good for disci- 
 pline in goodness. His was a Roman character by nature, 
 I have said; and I am convinced he came by his profound 
 practical interest in things Roman, not so much by any 
 reflection and deliberate decision as by the instinctive sym- 
 pathy of his native disposition. He came in sight of Roman 
 things, and he recognized his own ; they appealed to him, and 
 he responded. The impression this disposition made, even 
 early in the course of one's acquaintance with it, was dis- 
 tinct and not to be evaded. Unpretending simplicity; plain 
 directness; homely urbanity; reticence and reserve; some- 
 thing of taciturnity; steadfastness without aggression; 
 equipoise, patience, endurance; moderation of all sorts; an 
 unruffled temper; attachment to home, to kindred, to coun- 
 try, these were the traits that struck one, the traits that 
 continued always and everywhere ; and they were all of them 
 Roman. They were moreover the traits that made the 
 Roman a Stoic by nature, giving him over beforehand to 
 the Porch when its apostles should arrive. So, too, our 
 colleague was a Stoic by nature; and yet we must not for- 
 get that he was a Stoic who had received baptism, inwardly 
 in the spirit as well as outwardly in the body. He was thus 
 a Roman who had heard the Gospel and had believed it, 
 
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 to the illumination and redirection of his nature, indeed, 
 but not to its erasure, not at all to its elemental change, not 
 even to the dislocation of its members. One trait he had, 
 however, which we must not overlook, and which we usually 
 miss in the Roman his dry and quiet humor; and this we 
 must no doubt refer to the New-Englander that was unques- 
 tionably present in his heritage. 
 
 But in other traits he seemed wholly of the Roman type ; 
 though, to be sure, of the Roman no longer on campaign 
 and in the field, militiae ac ~belli, but domi, rather, come 
 home to his otium, his furlough in the gown and the toga. 
 A sort of christianized Seneca he looked, and such in fact 
 he was, 
 
 Discerning to fulfil 
 
 This labor, by slow prudence to make mild 
 A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees 
 Subdue them to the useful and the good. 
 Most blameless was he, centred in the sphere 
 Of common duties, decent not to fail 
 In offices of kindliness. 
 
 We can set his character best, I think, in the frame of the 
 Four Cardinal Virtues of the ancients, especially as these 
 took color from the Roman Stoics and the Roman habit of 
 feeling. Wisdom, Temperance, Justice, Courage, these 
 sum and array his "lords of life"; but they do so best when 
 named and interpreted in his familiar Latin: Prudentia, 
 Modestas, Justitia, Fortitude. He possessed them all; or, 
 rather, they quite possessed him; together they summed up 
 his being: Prudence, Moderation, Justice, Fortitude. Only, 
 in him, spiritual baptism had transformed and heightened 
 Prudence into something that cast its foresight beyond the 
 present world of fleeting circumstance, though it still 
 remained effective there; while over all the other Virtues 
 reigned Moderation, as the controlling and toning bond: 
 the Ne quid nimium of his kindred Stoics seemed the ruling 
 precept in all his excellence. So, in Fortitude also he read 
 the Stoic measure: the lofty and all-enduring apatheia that 
 
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 spoke in the Stoic In utrumque paratus was next to the 
 dominant principle of his life. The issue of circumstances, 
 friendly or adverse, not much perturbed him: idem semper 
 vultus, semper idemque frons. Only, again, this Indiffer- 
 ence too had received baptismal sprinkling, and he, as we 
 may believe, was ever saying inwardly, not Do thy part and 
 leave the rest to Fate, but Do thy part and leave the rest to 
 God. To the Four Virtues of the Stoics, his acceptance of 
 the Gospel had added the Three of St. Paul; so that, in the 
 light of Faith, Hope, and Charity, his Prudence, his Mod- 
 eration, his Justice, his Endurance, were all transmuted into 
 Humility. Humility became for him the touchstone of 
 belief and of life. This is strikingly manifest in his 
 notable address on Culture and the Religious Sentiment, 
 and was no less so in his whole career. "Truly," he avers, 
 "man, at his best, is altogether vanity in the sight of the 
 all- wise and all-powerful Maker of heaven and earth .... 
 Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little 
 child, he shall in nowise enter therein. The childlike spirit 
 is the only spirit befitting any human being." 
 
 Whether he much read Marcus Aurelius, or much 
 delighted in him, I have no means of knowing as a fact 
 direct. But a strong strain of kindred with the Imperial 
 Sage he certainly had. Something of this Stoic, this 
 Roman strain, I do not doubt came down to him straight- 
 way by birthright. I see him now, in his simplicity, his 
 utter unpretence, his homely but true urbanity, his friend- 
 liness most quiet but most real, his modest reserve, his 
 reticent endurance; and I cannot fail to catch in him the 
 suggestion of a resemblance, in all these traits, to the 
 earliest English ancestor of whom his biographical sketch 
 of himself takes account. He was the direct descendant, 
 in the seventh generation, of an earlier Martin Kellogg, of 
 Essex County, in England. The Stoic traits of this earliest 
 Martin are well typified in his plain, unadorned, but solid 
 and sufficing house of stone, which I believe is still 
 standing; and they descended, I dare venture, to his latest 
 
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 kinsman and bearer of his name, to be welcomed, 
 reinforced, and enlarged in scope. That name itself is a 
 good type of the character Martin Kellogg, sounding 
 simple, strong, solid, like the enduring rock. 
 
 In this unpretending, this simple-kindly fortitude, this 
 whole character so retiring, so deep-hidden from display or 
 public notice, our friend endured; and did his devoir; not 
 seeking to create or even to frame circumstances, but 
 accepting such as were given and came, dealing with them 
 patiently, "with malice toward none, and with charity for 
 all." Thus, with all his plainness, almost homespun, he was 
 of proof in true breeding, of the best courtesy, a gentleman 
 without flaw. So he achieved without violence, and 
 accomplished lasting service. 
 
 May his name and quality live in our memory and our 
 action always . May the life of the University that he loved 
 so calmly, and yet so steadfastly, unfold more and more 
 after the pattern of that Disciplined Humanity Temperate, 
 Just, Enduring, Wise which governed all his being, so that 
 he was in the sincerest fact integer vitae scelerisque purus.