Excerpt from Sketch of the Life and Public Services of Hon. James Hillhouse of New Haven One incident of his college life may be recited here in the words in which it was narrated, more than half a century after. Wards, at his funeral: It will not be improper to say - especially as the fact may produce a salutary impression on some young mind ln this assembly - that he was somewhat advanced in college life before he became properly conscious of his powers or of the worth of time, or practically convinced of the importance of that close application to whatever was in hand, by which he was after. Wards so distinguished. The late President Dwight, who was then in college as a tutor, though not his tutor, had noticed him with interest, and, with the discernment of youthful character which qualified the illustrious president to be the greatest teacher of his age, had seen in him the elements of future greatness; and he, by one well-timed, spirited, affectionate admonition and appeal, roused the man in the bosom of the unthinking stripling, and gave the coun try a patriot and a sage. To that incident our honored friend often referred in after life with. Grateful emotion, and from that hour be regarded his benefactor with veneration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.