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 ALICE FREEMAN PALMER
 
 LIBRARY 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 SANTA BARBARA 
 
 PRESENTED BY 
 CARROLL PURSELL
 
 A^SERVICE 
 
 IN MEMORY OF 
 
 ALICE FREEMAN PALMER 
 
 HELD BY 
 
 HER FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES 
 
 IN APPLETON CHAPEL 
 
 HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 JANUARY THIRTY-FIRST 
 
 MDCCCCIII 
 
 BOSTON AND NEW YORK 
 HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
 
 NOTHING IS HERE FOR TEARS, NOTHING TO WAIL, 
 DISPRAISE OR BLAME, NOTHING BUT WELL AND FAIR, 
 AND WHAT MAY gUIET US IN A DEATH SO NOBLE. 
 
 JOHN MILTON
 
 THIS volume contains both programme 
 and report of a memorial service at Cam- 
 bridge in honor of Mrs. Palmer. The 
 report is made complete in order that 
 her friends who were present may pre- 
 serve, and those who were absent may 
 experience, the feelings of beauty, thank- 
 fulness, and courage inspired by thoughts 
 of her on that unique occasion. Here every- 
 thing is presented except the music. 
 
 To compensate in some measure for this 
 large and necessary loss, five photographs 
 are added, tracing the development of her 
 character and features during the past forty 
 years. The first of them was taken when 
 she was a child of six; the second, just be- 
 fore she entered Michigan University; the 
 third, during her first year as President 
 of Wellesley; the fourth, at the request of 
 the University of Chicago for its decennial 
 celebration, showing her in the gown of a 
 Doctor of Laws, and commemorating her 
 
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 services as Dean; the fifth gives the 
 woman of recent years, as she appeared in 
 private life. Perhaps it may suggest some- 
 thing of the charm of her generous and 
 searching face. Any adequate representa- 
 tion of that face is impossible. No instru- 
 ment was swift and subtle enough to catch 
 its perpetual change or to mark the strange 
 combination in it of humor with seriousness, 
 duty with enjoyment, nimbleness of the 
 physical senses with high spirituality, saint- 
 hood with vivacious interest in every mov- 
 ing thing. Yet in this final picture one sees 
 her in full health and spirits, and as nearly 
 as possible as she was in Paris when struck 
 by the rare disease, intussusception of 
 the intestine, which suddenly closed her 
 life on December sixth. It is a disease 
 mechanical in nature, of unknown origin, 
 almost invariably fatal, though not violently 
 painful. Originally of a frail constitution, 
 she early perceived that health would be 
 an important condition of her work. She 
 
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 gained it by diligence, guarded it through 
 many severe strains, and fortunately pre- 
 served it to the last. 
 
 Miss Hazard has beautifully said that the 
 hymn sung at this service might well de- 
 scribe the mingled perplexity and peace of 
 Mrs. Palmer's Wellesley days. It might, 
 indeed. In reality it was written two years 
 ago. As she lay ill at Boxford, lightning 
 struck the house and destroyed the cham- 
 ber adjoining her own. She seemed much 
 interested in the novel event, as if it were 
 something contrived for her entertainment. 
 It did not apparently disturb her. No one 
 knew that she had written about it, or in- 
 deed that she was in the practice of writing 
 verse. After her death, among many other 
 poems, this hymn was found with the date 
 attached. In it a nature truly reserved, 
 however responsive to human needs, had 
 announced the sources of its calm. 
 
 G. H. P. 
 
 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, February 21 ', 
 9
 
 DECEMBER SIXTH 
 
 MDCCCCII 
 
 WHEN FELL, TO-DAY, THE WORD THAT SHE HAD GONE, 
 NOT THIS MY THOUGHT I HERE A BRIGHT JOURNEY ENDS, 
 HERE RESTS A SOUL UNRESTING ; HERE, AT LAST, 
 HERE ENDS THAT EARNEST STRENGTH, THAT GENEROUS LIFE 
 FOR ALL HER LIFE WAS GIVING. RATHER THIS 
 
 i SAID (AFTER THE FIRST SWIFT, SORROWING PANG) : 
 
 HENCE, ON A NEW QUEST, STARTS AN EAGER SPIRIT 
 
 NO DREAD, NO DOUBT, UNHESITATING FORTH 
 
 WITH ASKING EYES } PURE AS THE BODILESS SOULS 
 
 WHOM POETS VISION NEAR THE CENTRAL THRONE 
 
 ANGELICALLY MINISTRANT TO MAN ; 
 
 SO FARES SHE FORTH WITH SMILING, GODWARD FACE ; 
 
 NOR SHOULD WE GRIEVE, BUT GIVE ETERNAL THANKS 
 
 SAVE THAT WE MORTAL ARE, AND NEEDS MUST MOURN. 
 
 RICHARD WATSON GILDER
 
 ORDER OF SERVICE 
 
 IN HAPPY MEMORY OF 
 
 ALICE FREEMAN PALMER 
 
 1855-1902
 
 CHORAL 
 
 FROM MENDELSSOHN'S SAINT PAUL 
 
 SUNG BY THE CHOIR OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 [THE CONGREGATION STANDING] 
 
 5T0 God on high be thanks and praise, 
 Who deigns our bonds to sever, 
 
 His cares our drooping souls upraise, 
 And harm shall reach us never. 
 
 On Him we rest with faith assured. 
 
 Of all that live the Mighty Lord, 
 For ever and for ever.
 
 PRAYER 
 
 BY 
 
 REVEREND FRANCIS GREENWOOD PEABODY 
 PLUMMER PROFESSOR IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY
 
 ALMIGHTY GOD, who art ever more ready 
 to hear than we are to pray, we gather in 
 Thy presence with our precious memories 
 and our consoling hopes, and ask Thy 
 blessing upon our thoughts and prayers. 
 We bring to Thee, not our mourning 
 only, but our gratitude ; not our sorrow 
 only, but our praise. We look beyond the 
 things that are seen and temporal to the 
 things which are unseen and eternal; and 
 through the suffering of this present time 
 to the things which God has prepared for 
 those that love Him. Direct us, then, in all 
 our doings to-day with Thy most gracious 
 favor and further us with Thy continual 
 help, that we may glorify Thy holy name, 
 and finally by Thy mercy obtain everlast- 
 ing life. We ask it in His name who bids 
 us pray together : 
 
 Our Father, who art in heaven, Hal- 
 lowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. 
 Thy will be done on earth, As it is in heaven.
 
 Give us this day our daily bread. And for- 
 give us our trespasses, As we forgive those 
 who trespass against us. And lead us not 
 into temptation, But deliver us from evil : 
 For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, 
 and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. 
 
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 SCRIPTURE READING 
 
 BY 
 REVEREND FRANCIS GREENWOOD PEABODY
 
 THE memorial of virtue is immortal : 
 because it is known with God and with 
 men. When it is present, men take ex- 
 ample at it; and when it is gone, they 
 desire it; it weareth a crown, and tri- 
 umpheth for ever, having gotten the vic- 
 tory, striving for undefiled rewards. 
 
 For honorable age is not that which 
 standeth in length of time, nor that is mea- 
 sured by number of years. But wisdom is 
 the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted 
 life is old age. Thus the righteous that is 
 dead shall condemn the ungodly which are 
 living : and youth that is soon perfected the 
 many years and old age of the unright- 
 eous. 
 
 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, 
 and the man that getteth understanding : 
 for the merchandise of it is better than the 
 merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof 
 than fine gold. Her ways are ways of 
 pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
 
 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold 
 upon her; and happy is every one that 
 retaineth her. 
 
 But the wisdom that is from above is 
 first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy 
 to be entreated, full of mercy and good 
 fruits, without partiality and without hypoc- 
 risy. 
 
 When the ear heard me, then it blessed 
 me: and when the eye saw me, it gave wit- 
 ness to me : because I .delivered the poor 
 that cried, and the fatherless, and him that 
 had none to help him. Unto me men gave 
 ear, and waited, and kept silence at my 
 counsel. After my words they spake not 
 again ; and my speech dropped upon them. 
 And they waited for me as for the rain; 
 and they opened their mouth wide as for 
 the latter rain. 
 
 And he opened his mouth and taught 
 them, saying: Blessed are the poor in 
 spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 
 Blessed are they that mourn : for they shall 
 
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 be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for 
 they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are 
 they which do hunger and thirst after 
 righteousness: for they shall be filled. 
 Blessed are the merciful : for they shall ob- 
 tain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart : 
 for they shall see God. Wherefore by 
 their fruits ye shall know them. 
 
 Then shall the King say unto them on 
 his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my 
 Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for 
 you from the foundation of the world : For 
 I was ahungered and ye gave me meat : I 
 was thirsty, and ye gave me drink : I was a 
 stranger, and ye took me in. Then shall the 
 righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when 
 saw we thee ahungered, and fed thee ? or 
 thirsty, and gave thee drink ? When saw 
 we thee a stranger, and took thee in ? And 
 the King shall answer and say unto them, 
 Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have 
 done it unto one of the least of these my 
 brethren, ye have done it unto me.
 
 I am the resurrection and the life, saith 
 the Lord. He that believeth in me, though 
 he were dead, yet shall he live, and who- 
 soever liveth and believeth in me shall 
 never die. Let not your heart be troubled : 
 ye believe in God, believe also in me. In 
 my Father's house are many mansions : if 
 it were not so, I would have told you. I go 
 to prepare a place for you. And if I go 
 and prepare a place for you, I will come 
 again, and receive you unto myself; that 
 where I am, there ye may be also. 
 
 And I saw a new heaven and a new 
 , earth; for the first heaven and the first 
 earth were passed away. And he that sat 
 upon the throne said, Behold, I make all 
 things new. I am Alpha and Omega, the 
 beginning and the end. I will give unto 
 him that is athirst of the fountain of the 
 water of life freely. He that overcometh 
 shall inherit all things; and I will be his 
 God, and he shall be my son. And I heard 
 a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, 
 
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 Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. 
 Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest 
 from their labors ; and their works do fol- 
 low them. 
 
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 ADDRESS 
 
 BY JAMES BURRILL ANGELL 
 PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
 
 THE University of Michigan counts it a 
 high honor to be permitted to share in 
 these services, commemorative of one of 
 her most distinguished graduates. Person- 
 ally I am very grateful for the privilege of 
 joining with the many Eastern friends of 
 Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer in recalling 
 the beautiful and fruitful life of one whom 
 I have known intimately from the day of 
 her admission to the University, and whom 
 through all her remarkable career I have 
 watched with pride and affection. 
 
 It is naturally expected that I shall speak 
 of her earlier years, prior to her connection 
 with Wellesley College, and especially of 
 her undergraduate life. 
 
 In September, 1872, she presented her- 
 self at my office accompanied by her fa- 
 ther, a reputable physician of Windsor, a 
 small town in central New York, to apply 
 for admission to the University. She was 
 a simple, modest girl of seventeen. She 
 
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 had pursued her studies in the little acad- 
 emy in Windsor. Her teachers regarded 
 her as a child of much promise, precocious, 
 possessed of a bright, alert mirid, of great 
 industry, of quick sympathies, and of an 
 instinctive desire to be helpful to others. 
 Her preparation for college had been 
 rather meagre, and both she and her father 
 were somewhat doubtful about her ability 
 to pass the required examinations. The 
 doubts were not without foundation. The 
 examiners, on inspecting her work, were 
 inclined to decide that she ought to 
 do more preparatory work before they 
 could accept her. Meantime I had had 
 not a little conversation with her and her 
 father, and had been impressed with her 
 high intelligence. Therefore at my request 
 the examiners decided to allow her to en- 
 ter on a trial of six weeks. I was confident 
 she would demonstrate her capacity to go 
 on with her class. I need hardly add that 
 it was soon apparent to her instructors 
 
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 that my confidence was fully justified. She 
 speedily gained and constantly held an ex- 
 cellent position as a scholar. She did not 
 evince a decided choice for any one study 
 to the neglect of others ; but with conscien- 
 tious industry did all her work in a cred- 
 itable manner. She was a very active 
 member of a debating club which the 
 college girls of her time maintained, and 
 no doubt there gained something of her 
 unusual felicity in public address. One 
 of her classmates writes me as follows of 
 Miss Freeman's work in this club : " She 
 always spoke readily and with superabun- 
 dance of good spirits. She had a keen sense 
 of humor that always stood her in good 
 stead. In speaking, her humor was invari- 
 ably kindly and never degenerated into 
 sarcasm. It was impossible to think of her 
 saying an unkind or ungenerous word. An 
 almost over-supply of healthy animal spir- 
 its gave her speaking an exuberance of 
 expression that led her to pour out words 
 
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 with the greatest rapidity. Later she spoke 
 more slowly and with a finish and polish she 
 necessarily lacked as a girl." 
 
 One of her most striking characteristics 
 in college was her warm and demonstrative 
 sympathy with her circle of friends. Her 
 soul seemed bubbling over with joy, which 
 she wished to share with the other girls. 
 While she was therefore in most friendly 
 relations with all the girls then in college, 
 she was the radiant centre of a considerable 
 group whose tastes were congenial with 
 her own. Without assuming or striving for 
 leadership, she could not but be to a cer- 
 tain degree a leader among these, some of 
 whom have since attained to positions only 
 less conspicuous for usefulness than her 
 own. Her nature was so large and gen- 
 erous and free from envy that she was 
 esteemed by all her comrades, whether 
 they cherished exactly her ideals or not. 
 Wherever she was, her genial, outgoing 
 spirit seemed to carry with her an atmos- 
 
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 phere of cheerfulness and joy. No girl 
 of her time on withdrawing from college 
 would have been more missed than she. 
 
 During her college course she was con- 
 spicuous in religious activity in connection 
 with the Students' Christian Association. 
 Her religious life was of that cheerful, 
 hopeful, optimistic, inspiring type, which 
 characterized it in her maturer years, and 
 which always commended the Christian 
 faith in such winsome ways to those who 
 came within the sphere of her influence. 
 
 Her teachers saw with the highest satis- 
 faction that as the years went on she was 
 ripening into a womanhood which promised 
 conspicuous usefulness in some career. Yet 
 I think they and her classmates would all 
 agree with me that she afterwards more 
 than made good the promise of her under- 
 graduate days. For she had reserved 
 power which did not then manifest itself 
 in all its strength, and she never ceased to 
 grow in intellectual and moral and spirit- 
 
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 ual power in all the years of her crowded 
 life. 
 
 A part was assigned to her for Com- 
 mencement. She spoke on The Conflict 
 between Science and Poetry/* So far as I 
 remember, she attempted to set forth the 
 contrast between the intellectual methods 
 of the scientific investigator on the one 
 hand and those of the creative poet on the 
 other, and to show that the imagination 
 which so richly served the poet might well 
 be of service to the scientist in construct- 
 ing theories to guide him in his quest after 
 truth. It happened to fall to me in the 
 year of her graduation to supervise the 
 preparation of the speakers for Commence- 
 ment. I well remember that she was very 
 timid and anxious about delivering her 
 speech to the audience of three thousand. 
 She, who afterwards so often had the easy 
 mastery of great assemblies, had then never 
 been subjected to the trying ordeal before 
 her. But she had hardly uttered two sen- 
 
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 tences when it was clear to me that she had 
 the whole of that vast audience hanging 
 upon her lips, as in her later years she 
 always held her audiences spellbound to 
 the very last syllable that she uttered. I 
 think we shall all agree that few are the 
 speakers who had in so large measure as 
 she that magnetic, that unanalyzable, that 
 inexplicable power, divinely given now and 
 then to some fortunate man or woman, of 
 captivating and charming and holding com- 
 plete possession of assemblies from the first 
 to the last utterance. 
 
 May I be permitted to refer to one of 
 her triumphs as a speaker over a small au- 
 dience, a triumph not only for herself, but 
 also for her sex. Years ago the Michigan 
 Alumni in New York decided for the first 
 time to invite a few ladies, also Michigan 
 graduates, to their annual banquet. One 
 of these ladies was Alice Freeman, then 
 President of Wellesley College. The de- 
 cision to invite these ladies had been very 
 
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 reluctantly acceded to by some of the older 
 men, who had been graduated before 
 women were admitted to the University, 
 and who looked with old-fashioned disap- 
 proval, not to say contempt, on the very 
 idea of giving college education to women. 
 They contrived to seat themselves at a safe 
 distance from the ladies. After several 
 speeches had been made by men, Miss 
 Freeman was introduced. Some of these 
 elderly gentlemen, without showing any 
 discourtesy, tried to appear indifferent for 
 a few moments. But soon, as the speaker 
 proceeded in her modest and tactful man- 
 ner, their indifference melted away. Their 
 eyes were turned toward her with an air 
 of mingled surprise and interest. In a few 
 moments they became thoroughly ab- 
 sorbed in her utterances. They and all 
 the guests were listening to her graceful 
 words with the most undivided attention. 
 When she closed, the hall rang with ap- 
 plause, and one of the most conservative 
 
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 of these men exclaimed with enthusiasm, 
 " Well, well, if that is what the college 
 education of women means, I have nothing 
 more to say/' 
 
 When Mr. Durant founded Wellesley 
 College, so few women had received col- 
 lege education that he experienced some 
 difficulty in finding enough suitable candi- 
 dates for the professorial chairs. On my 
 recommendation he appointed three or 
 four Michigan graduates, who proved so 
 satisfactory that he wrote to me to inform 
 him at any time when we graduated such 
 a woman as I thought he ought to ap- 
 point. Not long after Miss Freeman's 
 graduation I wrote him that he ought to 
 secure her. For some reason he did not 
 then act on the suggestion. It so happened 
 that I had occasion, I think in the year 
 1879, to visit the high school in East Sagi- 
 naw, of which she was then principal. I 
 attended a class in English Literature which 
 she was teaching. The class was largely 
 
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 composed of boys of from fifteen to eigh- 
 teen years of age, in whom one would 
 perhaps hardly expect much enthusiasm 
 for the great masters of English Literature. 
 But it was soon apparent that she had 
 those boys, as she always had her classes, 
 completely under her control and largely 
 filled with her own enthusiasm. They 
 showed that at their homes they had been 
 carefully and lovingly reading some of the 
 great masterpieces, and were ready to dis- 
 cuss them with intelligence and zest. I 
 have never witnessed finer work of the 
 kind with a class of that sort. 
 
 When I returned home, I wrote to Mr. 
 Durant that he must appoint the woman 
 whose remarkable work I had been wit- 
 nessing, that he could not afford to let her 
 slip out of his hand. Whether my letter led 
 to his decision to call her to Wellesley, I 
 do not know. But he did call her and she 
 went. The rest is matter of history. 
 
 I am glad to say that she ever manifested 
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 the most loving fealty to her Alma Mater. 
 At our invitation she came repeatedly to 
 deliver addresses to our students, and al- 
 ways to their edification and delight. Her 
 last visit was at Commencement in 1901, 
 when her class celebrated its twenty-fifth 
 anniversary. No one of the class entered 
 with greater zest into the spirit of the occa- 
 sion. I never saw her more buoyant and 
 joyful. She was a girl again, the life and 
 inspiration of the class. They selected her 
 to respond for them to my call at the Com- 
 mencement dinner. How I wish I had a 
 copy of her speech to read to you here! 
 I never heard her speak more charmingly 
 and pathetically. Wit, humor, reminis- 
 cence, affection for her classmates, grati- 
 tude to her Alma Mater, all were there. 
 Her voice was tremulous with emotion. 
 Never have I seen her audience more com- 
 pletely swayed by her. Alas! that her 
 sweet voice shall never more be heard in 
 our halls ! 
 
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 You here in Massachusetts, where most 
 of her public services were rendered, may 
 well be grateful for what she has done for 
 you. We share to the full your joy in her 
 achievements. But her Alma Mater may 
 be pardoned for feeling a maternal pride 
 and a tenderness of affection for her which 
 only the mother can feel for the loving and 
 beloved daughter.
 
 HYMN 
 
 SUNG BY THE CHOIR OF WELLESLEY COLLEGE 
 
 " He shall give his angels charge 
 Over thee in all thy ways." 
 
 Though the thunders roam at large, 
 Though the lightning round me plays, 
 
 Like a child I lay my head 
 
 In sweet sleep upon my bed. 
 
 Though the terror come so close. 
 It shall have no power to smite ; 
 
 It shall deepen my repose. 
 Turn the darkness into light. 
 
 Touch of angels 1 hands is sweet ; 
 
 Not a stone shall hurt my feet. 
 
 All Thy waves and billows go 
 
 Over me to press me down 
 Into arms so strong I know 
 
 They will never let me drown. 
 Ah! my God, how good Thy will! 
 I will nestle and be still. 
 
 ALICE FREEMAN PALMER
 
 ADDRESS 
 
 BY CAROLINE HAZARD 
 PRESIDENT OF WELLESLEY COLLEGE
 
 As I RISE in this Chapel of Harvard Uni- 
 versity, the fact comes over me with over- 
 whelming force that if it had not been for 
 the dear friend we are gathered to honor 
 to-day, in all human probability I should 
 not be here to add my word of grateful 
 recognition and reverent praise; for it was 
 she who first spoke to me of the possibility 
 of coming to Wellesley, finding an oppor- 
 tunity in what to any one else would have 
 been the hopeless confusion of a crowded 
 reception. Never shall I forget her con- 
 tagious enthusiasm, to which my own re- 
 sponded ; and though weeks elapsed before 
 a final decision was reached, my heart had 
 capitulated long before my mind was con- 
 vinced. 
 
 If one were to sum up in one word the 
 life of the noble woman we think of to- 
 day, would it not be described as a life of 
 service? The eager soul, poised and an- 
 chored securely, so that it could swing in 
 
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 wide circles, was ever responsive to a call 
 for help, it heard the Macedonian cry, and 
 its country was the world. How apt we 
 are to become a little hardened, a little im- 
 patient at the constant appeals for sympa- 
 thy, for advice, and yet I dare to say that 
 no human being ever appealed to Alice 
 Freeman Palmer without receiving good 
 measure, pressed down and running over, 
 of cheer, of comfort, of sound worldly wis- 
 dom. That was her distinction. She was 
 an idealist to whom everything pure and 
 high appealed, she was full of enthusiasm, 
 and she was a practical woman of affairs, a 
 woman who managed her household well, 
 and who was fitted to advise and to act in 
 every emergency of life. She exemplified 
 her own doctrine that a wide education 
 opens new doors of usefulness to a woman, 
 and does not cjose any of the time-honored 
 avenues. 
 
 We have heard how she came to Welles- 
 ley. A new experiment it was, an experi-
 
 ment founded in a high enthusiasm, and on 
 the very first day of the college year the 
 great hall was filled. Mount Holyoke, not 
 yet a college, and Vassar were the only 
 forerunners. Smith was breaking ground 
 and making its own experiments. It was 
 pioneer work. " Do you see that little 
 black-eyed girl?" Mr. Durant said one 
 day to Governor Claflin. "She is the 
 future President of Wellesley College." 
 Soon his strong controlling personality was 
 removed, and Miss Freeman, at the age 
 of twenty-six, assumed the duties of presi- 
 dent, a girl, surrounded by her girls. So 
 Abbott Thayer has delighted to paint her, 
 in a clinging white gown, the serious brown 
 eyes looking wistfully at the beholder. 
 For a little more than six years she held 
 the office and showed what a woman presi- 
 dent can be. There were earnest and able 
 women on the faculty to assist her. A 
 scholar was at the head of the department 
 of Greek, and a young instructor in it had 
 
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 as a sophomore received her when she 
 came to Michigan University. The Profes- 
 sor of Mathematics was an Oberlin woman 
 with a fine, clear mind, and great gifts as 
 a teacher, so that the impress of her work 
 still holds the traditions of Wellesley Math- 
 ematics. Latin and Philosophy were also 
 well represented. But the College lacked 
 a leader, lacked the organizing force which 
 should make it a whole. Twenty years 
 ago there were fewer devices for labor- 
 saving. Stenographers were not yet in the 
 field, secretaries still wrote long-hand. 
 And so with scanty help, working day and 
 night, living in the building with her girls, 
 having them constantly in close association 
 with her, giving unsparingly of herself, she 
 lived her life. She found time to know 
 notable people, to interest them to come to 
 the College. Lectures from distinguished 
 persons abounded. She spread a rich feast 
 for her students and partook of it herself. 
 It was an ideal life in many respects, a life 
 
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 fed and sustained by the affection and de- 
 votion of those about her, a life of limitless 
 giving, a life that grew larger and stronger, 
 "in diffusion ever more intense." 
 
 It is not strange that the glamour of her 
 personality pervaded the place, that she 
 seemed the fit and consummate flower of 
 the young life which surrounded her. And 
 always with this enthusiasm, with this ra- 
 diance was the practical side. Few peo- 
 ple could manage finances better, and very 
 few had keener perception in recognizing 
 quality in men or women. She seemed to 
 have an instinct for people, and her courage 
 in those early days was boundless. I re- 
 member once she asked a young author of 
 a first book to join the English Literature 
 Department, simply because she thought 
 the style of the book good, and in spite of 
 the fact that the maiden author had never 
 taught at all. It was harder to get qualified 
 teachers then, but now there would be few 
 college positions offered to total inexperi- 
 
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 ence. She gathered clever women about 
 her, recognizing ability instantly, and build- 
 ing up a faculty which brought the College 
 honor. 
 
 When she came in 1879, there were 
 three hundred and seventy-five students, 
 and she left the College with six hundred 
 and twenty-eight eight years later. With 
 her administration the policy of building 
 small halls of residence was begun, and for 
 the last year and a half she herself lived in 
 Norumbega, the first of what are called 
 the hill cottages. 
 
 The work which she did in these foun- 
 dation days can hardly be overestimated. 
 There were no precedents, no traditions, 
 she had a clear field to work in, and she 
 threw all her influence for the best things in 
 scholarship and the best things in life. It was 
 her especial characteristic to seize a point 
 of view quickly, to grasp the meaning of a 
 situation instantly, and from what to others 
 might have been difficulty or defeat, to 
 
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 achieve victory. Her personal influence 
 over her students was boundless. She 
 knew them all as individuals. By both 
 word and example she moulded character. 
 I like to think that it was from some of 
 the perplexities of her busy and exacting 
 college days that the hymn we have just 
 sung came welling up : 
 
 All Thy waves and billows go 
 Over me to press me down 
 
 Into arms so strong I know 
 They will never let me drown. 
 
 This deeper side of her nature, rarely re- 
 vealed, gave fullness and sweetness to that 
 charming play of fancy, that wholesome, 
 kindly humor which endeared her to all 
 who came in contact with her. For she was 
 founded upon a rock, and her courage, her 
 bravery, her loyalty, bore witness to that 
 foundation. 
 
 It seems to me a proof of the growth of 
 her life that she left all this at Wellesley, 
 
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 which had been so largely the work of her 
 hands and of her heart, and found a larger 
 usefulness in her marriage. She laid down 
 one specific work to take up a dozen others, 
 and the sunshine of her home touched many 
 a life with glory. In no other way could 
 her influence have been so widened, could 
 the sanity and beauty of her life have had 
 its fulfillment. And when she left Welles- 
 ley she carried it in her heart : " Wellesley, 
 that blessed place," she called it. 
 
 College generations are short: the 
 world moves swiftly; and at Wellesley 
 for the last few years she had been a gra- 
 cious presence, coming a few times a win- 
 ter with cheer and helpful words. In the 
 counsels of the College few persons could 
 carry more weight, for she had the expe- 
 rience of professor, president, and trustee. 
 Here again her enthusiasm and her practi- 
 cality went hand in hand. A great plan 
 fired her imagination, and with her glowing 
 words the contagion of her ideal spread. 
 
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 And then came the practical suggestion for 
 carrying it out far-seeing, calm, willing 
 to wait, setting other people to work, in- 
 spiring all. It was never her own plan 
 because it was her own plan. She fought 
 no personal battles, but always strove for 
 what she saw as the larger good, the better 
 way. 
 
 Such a life has in its very self the seeds 
 of immortality. Preeminent among the 
 women of her time, she loved her kind with 
 a broad human fellowship which took in 
 all ages, all conditions. Hers was the es- 
 sentially feminine nature, bounteous, life- 
 giving. 
 
 " If, as I have, you also do 
 
 Virtue attired in woman see 
 And dare love that, and say so too, 
 And forget the He and She " 
 
 This she saw ; this we all saw in her, im- 
 personal and yet illumined with personality. 
 She forgot the he and she, as is testified 
 by the universality of her friendships. She 
 
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 lived the true woman's life with its distinc- 
 tive and mighty power of devotion devo- 
 tion not only to her family, but to her race 
 and to her country. She worked for women 
 first, for she had a loyal love of her sex ; 
 but always with the broader view, with the 
 hope of widening limitations, of opening 
 closed doors. And wherever she found a 
 soul she could help, in man or woman, the 
 human tie became strong. They, and she 
 alike, were children of God, set to do His 
 work in the world, to bring in a better day, 
 to make the world a better place : this was 
 her aim, and this she accomplished. 
 
 Alas, that we shall see her no more! 
 But it was fitting that no touch of age 
 should descend upon her. Her buoyant 
 youthful spirit in its freshness and its 
 sweetness, her clear, far-seeing mind, with 
 its womanly perceptions and its trained 
 grasp, her soul so full of the love of human 
 kind, suffered no blight nor chill of frost. 
 In the radiance of full summer, with many 
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 fruits already gathered and promise of 
 golden autumn's store, she is gone from our 
 sight to that "day which is at hand," she 
 has "put on the whole armor of light." 
 
 We loved her for the loving thoughts which 
 sped 
 
 Straight from her heart until they found 
 their goal 
 
 In some perplexed or troubled human soul 
 And broke anew the ever living bread. 
 We loved the mind courageous which no dread 
 
 Of failure ever daunted, whose control 
 
 Of gentleness all opposition stole; 
 We loved herself and all the joy she shed. 
 
 Oh Leader of the Leaders ! Like a light 
 
 Thy life was set, to counsel, to befriend ; 
 
 Thy quick and eager insight seized the right 
 And shared the prize with bounteous hand, 
 
 and free. 
 Fed from the fountains of infinity 
 
 Thy life was service, having love to spend. 
 
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 ANTHEM 
 
 BY MYLES FOSTER 
 SUNG BY THE CHOIR OF WELLESLEY COLLEGE 
 
 'The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Let us 
 therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us 
 put on the armour of light.
 
 ADDRESS 
 
 BY WILLIAM JEWETT TUCKER 
 PRESIDENT OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
 
 WHEN Alice Freeman resigned the pre- 
 sidency of Wellesley to become the wife of 
 Professor Palmer, no one who knew them 
 both doubted for a moment those results in 
 rare and generous service which subse- 
 quent years have disclosed. Her marriage 
 was as beautiful a romance as ever found 
 its way into the world of scholars. It never 
 ceased to be that, because it lost itself so 
 quickly and so naturally in a mutual devo- 
 tion to the happiness of others. 
 
 The change, however, from a college 
 to the home as a centre of personal activ- 
 ity offers a very severe test of character. 
 There are many of us who can serve insti- 
 tutions who might utterly fail if our ser- 
 vice were suddenly transferred, even by 
 our own choice, to persons and causes. 
 The service of an institution is a self-sup- 
 porting service. Motives, reasons, methods, 
 lie deep in the service itself. And they are 
 continuous in their action. If one grows 
 
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 weary or even discouraged in such service, 
 one may rest for a moment and let the mo- 
 mentum carry him on till he recovers per- 
 sonal strength. It is the least wasteful of 
 all kinds of service. Everything goes upon 
 deposit. There is no expenditure of thought 
 or of energy which may not return in some 
 form of substantial and enduring power. It 
 is also the least exacting service, one may 
 perhaps better say the least discriminating, 
 in respect to motives. It does not start 
 those morbid questionings which so often 
 vex our attempts at charity and sacrifice. 
 The personal and the professional are 
 allowed to be inseparable. The servant 
 of an institution takes the fortune of the 
 life he serves. 
 
 The service, therefore, for which Mrs. 
 Palmer exchanged her work at Wellesley 
 seems to me to have required a deeper and 
 more sustained unselfishness. It was no 
 longer, in the sense in which I have used 
 the term, a self-supporting service. It re- 
 
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 quired the opening of new sources of in- 
 spiration, of endurance, and of faith. It 
 required also a more delicate adjustment 
 of herself to her task. The spirit of lead- 
 ership must always remain true to itself, 
 but the form must often mightily change 
 as it passes from control and direction to 
 comradeship and cooperation. 
 
 I will name three characteristics of Mrs. 
 Palmer in the more public relations of her 
 later life which constantly impressed me. 
 First, the utter and entire absence of the 
 spirit of patronage. Various people sought 
 Mrs. Palmer because of her superior wis- 
 dom and tact and force. She never allowed 
 them to feel her superiority. Girls came to 
 her as before, confused of purpose, often 
 discouraged. She recognized with fine in- 
 stinct the necessity in the case of each one 
 that the choice which was to settle her 
 doubts or difficulties must be her own 
 choice, not some choice superimposed 
 upon her. So she began at once to create 
 
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 the conditions for an intelligent, abiding, 
 and, if possible, enthusiastic choice. Who- 
 ever among such persons left her presence 
 was quite sure to take away something 
 different from that which she expected, 
 not comfort, advice, inspiration, but rather 
 a new consciousness of self. Various causes 
 were presented to her. Some of them were 
 put before her for her patronage. They 
 seldom received it. She reserved herself 
 for those causes which needed her help, 
 causes with which she could identify her- 
 self. The incoming of her personality into 
 the movements of which she was to be a 
 part did not disturb those already in leader- 
 ship ; there was simply the sense of accel- 
 erated motion or of a change of direction. 
 A second characteristic was intellectual 
 appreciation. Mrs. Palmer's sympathies 
 were quick and wide. So were her mental 
 perceptions. It was the intellectual quality 
 which could be relied upon to assert itself 
 when that alone would suffice, expressing 
 
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 itself in a sanity which no sentiment could 
 disturb, and with a vision which no sym- 
 pathies could divert or obscure. The val- 
 uation which Mrs. Palmer put upon the 
 causes with which she became identified 
 was usually greater than that which they 
 had before received, but it was often 
 reached by a very discriminating process. 
 Her mind was sensitively intolerant of un- 
 reality of any sort. If any unreal thing 
 had become for any reason sacred to others, 
 as is quite apt to be the case, she respected 
 the blind or unreasoning faith, but she 
 wrought none the less straight toward 
 reality. I do not know that she ever 
 threw off any followers. Her intellectual 
 appreciation was so clear, so accordant with 
 reason and with faith, so informed with 
 spiritual passion, that following elsewhere 
 seemed to be missing the way. 
 
 A third characteristic of Mrs. Palmer's 
 relation to the more public service of her 
 later life was her contribution of faith, the 
 
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 rarest gift to a person or a cause. Mrs. 
 Palmer believed greatly, sometimes se- 
 renely, sometimes passionately, in those 
 things which she deemed worthy of her 
 faith. It was so true, so right a kind of 
 believing, that it communicated itself. If it 
 was directed toward persons, they began to 
 believe in themselves ; if it was directed to- 
 ward causes, those who had them most at 
 heart saw a new hope. Mrs. Palmer's faith 
 was supported by works. We always knew 
 that. Perhaps the knowledge made up a 
 part of our faith. But not primarily. 
 Here was one who had the great quali- 
 ties of vision, the sense of reality, courage 
 to look ahead, and spiritual obedience. I 
 have said elsewhere in substance that the 
 death of Mrs. Palmer has impoverished 
 that common fund upon which we are 
 wont to draw in all our moral and spirit- 
 ual activities, without stopping to ask whose 
 contributions are greatest. Now we know 
 who was one of the great givers. We do 
 
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 not easily see from what source the fund 
 is to be replenished to meet our daily 
 drafts. As we try to embody in some 
 memorial a few permanent and tangible 
 results of Mrs. Palmer's life, we feel how 
 slight are the values we propose, if they 
 shall be realized, when measured by the 
 value of her personal power as we were 
 wont to draw upon it. 
 
 You do not, of course, wish, out of pride 
 in those causes with which Mrs. Palmer 
 was identified, that I should enumerate or 
 name them in this presence, when we are 
 here to think of her. The range of Mrs. 
 Palmer's later service was wide, but it 
 was held within the limits of her sense of 
 her own appropriate and effective power. 
 Her sphere of action was chiefly educa- 
 tional, to a degree religious, and to a degree 
 charitable, but always open to the approach 
 of individuals. Nothing human was foreign 
 to her. She made quick and lasting contact 
 with personal life. It is fit that we seek to 
 
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 continue her influence through the estab- 
 lishment of those ministries which are set 
 toward power, especially of those which 
 are set for the development of personal 
 power. 
 
 It is not within my province to speak of 
 those qualities of Mrs. Palmer which con- 
 tributed so largely to the sanctity or the 
 charm of the home. But I may be par- 
 doned this closing word, as I have been 
 asked to speak of Mrs. Palmer in her public 
 relations. There was no difference in Mrs. 
 Palmer in her private and public relations. 
 She was always and everywhere the same 
 person, doing things appropriately accord- 
 ing to time and place, but simply herself 
 in doing them. Had she been otherwise, it 
 might have seemed necessary for me to say 
 more about her works. In place of that, we 
 are permitted this hour of grateful, loving, 
 joyous appreciation of herself, a prophecy 
 I think of the continuous power which will 
 live in the name, Alice Freeman Palmer. 
 
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 ADDRESS 
 
 BY CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT 
 PRESIDENT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY
 
 MRS. PALMER'S personal qualities have 
 already been vividly described, and this 
 assembly has recognized and approved the 
 descriptions. Her spiritual qualities im- 
 pressed themselves on the most casual ob- 
 server. Her quick, responsive sympathy 
 shone from her eyes. Her alertness and 
 ardor animated her bodily gestures and 
 movements ; her generosity and unself- 
 ish devotion to the interests of others were 
 manifested in the least actions of her daily 
 life, as well as in her professional work in 
 the cause of education. One flower, one 
 tree, one baby, one bird singing, or one 
 little village would move her to love and 
 praise as surely as a garden, a forest, a 
 university, an orchestra, or a great city. 
 She was emphatically a person who gave 
 out information, sympathy, advice, and mo- 
 tive power. She asked all these things from 
 Nature and from men and women; but even 
 while asking she responded in full measure. 
 
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 She was often eager to get another's opin- 
 ion ; but getting it, she gave her own, and 
 in a moment there was sympathetic reac- 
 tion between two souls. In the presence 
 of a person who she thought could teach 
 her something she was an intent listener 
 and quick commentator; but whatever of 
 wisdom or virtue she had won from another 
 she was instantly ready to impart. 
 
 Her temperament was in the highest de- 
 gree responsive to the moods of Nature, to 
 natural and spiritual beauty, to any sud- 
 den revelation of a human soul, and to the 
 subtlest expressions of human joy or woe. 
 There is no more winning or commanding 
 quality in man or woman than this radiant 
 responsiveness, nor any which secures to 
 the person who possesses it a surer growth 
 or an ampler happiness. 
 , The sources of Mrs. Palmer's great and 
 lasting influence on American society lay 
 deep in these rare spiritual gifts of hers, 
 which were indeed a native endowment, but 
 
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 were also trained and developed by a daily 
 practice which became ever larger and finer 
 as her life went on. 
 
 As we look back on the chief events of 
 her too short career, the first thing that 
 strikes us is its originality at every stage ; 
 she was in the best sense a pioneer all 
 through her life. When she went to the 
 University of Michigan as a student, she 
 was one of a small band of young women 
 venturing with motives of intellectual am- 
 bition into a state university which had 
 been opened to women. At twenty-two 
 years of age she was already principal of a 
 high school in Michigan. At twenty-four 
 she took a professorship of history in a new 
 college for women where all the officers 
 and teachers were women a pioneer 
 work indeed. At twenty-six she became 
 president of that novel college at a time 
 when its worth had not yet been demon- 
 strated. Indeed its policy was then held by 
 many to be of doubtful soundness, and its 
 
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 financial future extremely difficult. What 
 courage and self-devotion these successive 
 acts required ! Her work at Wellesley was 
 creation, not imitation ; and it was work 
 done in the face of doubts, criticisms, and 
 prophecies of evil. After six years of mas- 
 terly work at Wellesley College, in which 
 she exhibited the keenest intelligence, large 
 executive ability, and a remarkable capa- 
 city for engaging sympathy and winning 
 affection and respect, a capacity which 
 assured her success in the profession of 
 education, she laid down these functions, 
 married at the age of thirty-two, and appa- 
 rently entered on a wholly new career. Alice 
 Freeman thus gave the most striking testi- 
 mony she could give of her faith in the fun- 
 damental social principle, that love between 
 man and woman and the family life which 
 results therefrom afford for each sex the 
 conditions of its greatest usefulness and 
 honor, and of its supreme happiness. The 
 opponents of the higher education of women 
 
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 had always argued that such education 
 would tend to prevent marriage, and to 
 dispossess the family as the corner-stone of 
 society. Alice Freeman gave the whole 
 force of her conspicuous example to dis- 
 prove that objection. She illustrated in her 
 own case the supremacy of love and of 
 family life in the heart of both man and 
 woman. Children were denied her; but 
 her love of children was intense, and her 
 disappointment that she had none of her 
 own merely made her all the more eager 
 ta love and serve the children of others. 
 
 Mrs. Palmer had been but two years 
 in Cambridge when she was appointed a 
 member of the Massachusetts Board of 
 Education, an office she held for the rest 
 of her life. Her services in this Board were 
 highly productive. She was always influ- 
 ential with the Board itself, with the Legis- 
 lature, and with the successive Governors 
 of the Commonwealth. In particular, she 
 contributed largely to the recent elevation 
 
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 of the Normal Schools, a measure not less 
 important than their creation during the 
 administration of Horace Mann as Secre- 
 tary of the Board. 
 
 She labored constantly to build up all 
 sorts of institutions which might promote 
 or improve the education of girls and 
 women at any stage. She worked for 
 women's clubs, for the Association of Col- 
 legiate Alumna*, and for teachers' institutes 
 and societies, endeavoring always to inter- 
 est such institutions in productive work for 
 the benefit of women. She knew that by 
 building up these institutions she could se- 
 cure permanent protection, incitement, and 
 guidance for judicious efforts to improve 
 the education of the sex and its conditions 
 of employment. She longed to see grow 
 strong and firm the institutional life which 
 outlasts the individual life. She welcomed 
 and would work for any institution that 
 brought strength to the educational cause 
 so dear to her. She would do anything in 
 
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 her power for a coeducational institution 
 like the University of Michigan or the 
 Chicago University; for a separate col- 
 lege for women like Wellesley; for a 
 woman's college affiliated with a univer- 
 sity like Radcliffe or Barnard; or t for a 
 technical school for women like the new 
 Simmons College in Boston. She would 
 throw herself with the greatest ardor into 
 the cause of an old academy threatened 
 with extinction, like Bradford Academy 
 at Haverhill, and in a few years would 
 lift it into a life more vigorous than it had 
 ever known before. In such enterprises 
 she would take great responsibility, such, 
 for instance, as the responsibility of recom- 
 mending a principal or a dean. If the case 
 were difficult, and her advice about it had 
 been accepted, she would shrink from no 
 labor in the endeavor to win a good result. 
 During the fifteen years of her residence 
 in Cambridge her public work was always 
 growing on her hands, and she labored to 
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 the full limit of her strength, and often be- 
 yond that limit. She held many offices, 
 spoke often in public, received much ap- 
 plause, and innumerable expressions of 
 love and gratitude; but through all this 
 experience she remained perfectly simple, 
 natural, and spontaneous. From the time 
 that she began to teach, her labors were in 
 the highest degree fruitful, fruitful in 
 building up educational institutions, and in 
 establishing or developing social institu- 
 tions which will have continuing influence 
 for good, and still more fruitful in building 
 up the judgment and character of thou- 
 sands of girls and young women. Who 
 raises woman raises mankind. 
 
 To my mind this career is unmatched by 
 that of any other American woman. The 
 only American woman's career that comes 
 to my mind as at all comparable with that 
 of Mrs. Palmer is the long career of Doro- 
 thea Dix, but Miss Dix's work was devoted 
 to the palliation, or the remedying in some 
 
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 measure, of hideous evils in American so- 
 ciety, such, for example, as the condition of 
 prisons; while Mrs. Palmer's career was 
 devoted to positive, constructive labors in 
 promoting the well-being of the people, and 
 cultivating their best mental and spiritual 
 faculties. Her work lay in a higher field. 
 We cannot but believe that in the long run 
 the surest way to cure evils is to supplant 
 evil by good. 
 
 Believing Mrs. Palmer's life and labors 
 to be the best example thus far set before 
 American womanhood, I think her career 
 should be commemorated nobly at the in- 
 stitutions of education which her presence 
 exalted and enriched in her youth and in 
 her maturity. 
 
 li
 
 ANTHEM 
 
 BY HERBERT HALL WOODWARD 
 SUNG BY THE CHOIR OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
 
 Crossing the Bar 
 
 Sunset and evening star. 
 
 And one clear call for me ! 
 And may there be no moaning of the bar t 
 
 When I put out to sea, 
 
 But such a tide as moving seems asleep. 
 
 Too full for sound and foam. 
 When that which drew from out the boundless deep 
 
 Turns again home. 
 
 Twilight and evening belly 
 
 And after that the dark ! 
 And may there be no sadness of farewell, 
 
 When I embark ; 
 
 For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place 
 
 The flood may bear me far, 
 I hope to see my Pilot face to face 
 
 When I have crost the bar. 
 
 ALFRED TENNYSON
 
 PRAYER 
 
 BY 
 REVEREND FRANCIS GREENWOOD PEABODY
 
 GRANT to us all Thy blessing, our Hea- 
 venly Father, as we go on our way back 
 into the waiting world ; and strengthen us 
 by the abiding memory of a strong and 
 gentle soul. We thank Thee for this gift 
 to us of the wisdom of simplicity, the truth 
 that makes free, the insight of the pure in 
 heart. We thank Thee for the lessons we 
 are taught of duty and service, of love and 
 peace. Sanctify this sorrow to the hearts 
 that mourn, that they may be comforted. 
 May the great word of the Master be 
 spoken again: "Let not your heart be 
 troubled. I go to prepare a place for you; " 
 and as the vision of the larger life grows 
 clear, make heaven seem like home, as 
 home has seemed like heaven. And to us 
 all, as we part in loving friendship, speak 
 Thy message of quietness and strength. 
 Send us to our duties with a calmer mind. 
 Deliver us from the fear alike of life and 
 of death. Teach us to live as those pre- 
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 pared to die, and then to die as those pre- 
 pared to live ; that so, among the changes 
 and chances of this life, neither things pre- 
 sent nor things to come, nor life, nor death, 
 nor any other creature, shall be able to 
 separate us from Thy love, which is in 
 Jesus Christ, our Lord. 
 
 In His name we ask it. Amen. 
 
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 HYMN 
 
 SUNG BY THE WHOLE COMPANY 
 
 O God, our help in ages past, 
 
 Our hope for years to come, 
 Our shelter from the stormy blast, 
 
 And our eternal home, 
 
 Before the hills in order stood. 
 Or earth received her frame, 
 
 From everlasting Thou art God, 
 To endless years the same. 
 
 A thousand ages in Thy sight 
 
 Are like an evening gone, 
 Short as the watch that ends the night 
 
 Before the rising sun. 
 
 O God, our help in ages past, 
 Our hope for years to come, 
 
 Be 'Thou our guard while troubles last, 
 And our eternal home. 
 
 ISAAC WATTS
 
 BY 
 REVEREND FRANCIS GREENWOOD PEABODY
 
 THE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ 
 that grace which is made perfect through 
 suffering; and the love of God that love 
 which casts out fear ; and the communion 
 of the Holy Ghost that communion 
 which makes one family in earth and hea- 
 ven ; be with us all. Amen.
 
 HARK HITHER, READER, WOUL1/ST THOU SEE 
 
 NATURE HER OWN PHYSICIAN BE ; 
 
 WOULD'ST SEE A SOUL ALL HER OWN WEALTH, 
 
 HER OWN MUSIC, HER OWN HEALTH } 
 
 A SOUL WHOSE SOBER THOUGHT CAN TELL 
 
 HOW TO WEAR HER GARMENTS WELL, 
 
 HER GARMENTS THAT UPON HER SIT 
 
 (AS GARMENTS SHOULD DO) CLOSE AND FIT ; 
 
 A WELL-CLOTH'D SOUL, THAT 's NOT OPPREST 
 
 NOR CHOKT WITH WHAT SHE SHOULD BE DREST, 
 
 BUT SHEATHED IN A CRYSTAL SHRINE, 
 
 THROUGH WHICH ALL HER BRIGHT FEATURES SHINE ; 
 
 A SOUL WHOSE INTELLECTUAL BEAMS 
 
 NO MISTS DO MASK, NO LAZY STEAMS ; 
 
 A HAPPY SOUL, THAT ALL THE WAY 
 
 TO HEAVEN HATH A SUMMER'S DAY ; 
 
 WHOSE LATEST AND MOST LEADEN HOURS 
 
 FALL WITH SOFT WINGS, STUCK WITH SOFT FLOWERS J 
 
 AND WHEN LIFE'S SWEET FABLE ENDS 
 
 THIS SOUL AND BODY PART LIKE FRIENDS ; 
 
 NO QUARRELS, MURMURS, NO DELAY ; 
 
 A KISS, A SIGH, AND SO AWAY. 
 
 RICHARD CRASHAW
 
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