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by the students of that day would admit, and by ad- vancing, year by year, to a still higher standard, finally to gain the excellence of scholarship given in the best colleges of the land. Equally important with the work of instruction were the financial interests of the college, and to these he early and diligently applied himself, that they might be improved and enlarged. Feeling the necessity of changing the basis of scholarships. Pro- fessor Morrison was sent into the field, and accom- plished, after faithful labors, a change of " Perpet- Collcfjc Work: 23 ual Six-per-cent Scholarships '' to '" Twenty-five-year Ten-per-cent Schohirships/' And, again, to tlie same end, Professor Ross was sent out, and succeeded in increasing the college endowment fund ten thou- sand dollars by issuing college " script '' for interest on capital given. Through the early days of his college life, the subject of this memoir was father, instructor, pastor, and friend of every student; and while he arranged for the general charge of the literary work of the college and its students, and controlled the financial department of the institution, he neglected not the personal welfare of every student. Each and all of these felt that the president was his personal friend. In the chapel on the Sabbath, he unfolded in plain,

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