Bringing to his task a noble ideal, with rare sagacity as an administrator; with financial and economic skill rarely found in a scholar and idealist, but necessary to foster into fullest fruitfulness the slender pecuniary resources then at hand; with tact and suavity which made President Seelye's "no," if no were needed, more gracious than "yes" from others; with the force which grasps difficulties fearlessly; with dignified scholarship and a courtly manner, the master builder of our College, under whose hand the little one has become a thousand and the small one a strong republic, has achieved the realization of his high ideal and is crowned with honour and affection.
He has made one ashamed of any but the highest motives, and has taught us that sympathy and love for mankind are the traits for which to strive.

The ideals of womanly life which he instilled will ever be held high before us.
There are many distinguished qualities which a college president must possess.

He must be idealist, creator, executor, financier, and scholar.

President Seelye--is all these--but he had another and a rarer gift which binds and links these qualities together, as the chain on which jewels are strung--President Seelye had immense capacity for work and patient attention for details.

It is this unusual combination which has given us a great College, and has given to our president a unique position among educators.
I realize that I must at times have been rather a trying proposition to President Seelye for I was placed in an entirely new world, and having been almost wholly educated by my father, by Dartmouth professors, and by students of the highest scholarship, I never knew the mental friction and the averaging up and down of those accustomed to large classes.