"Mr. Calhoun spoke like a college professor demonstrating to his class," says John Wentworth, in his "Congressional Reminiscences." "College professors in the South were his great admirers, and taught his doctrines to their students. At the time of his death he was gaining a strong foothold among the scholars of the North, who seemed incapable of resisting the seductive reasoning of his perceptive, comprehensive and analytic mind. Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire once came to my seat and said: 'I am going to astonish you. Mr. Calhoun has just brought to me a letter, which he said he had just received from President Nathan Lord of Dartmouth College, and asked me a great many questions about him and the college. He left asserting that President Lord was one of the ablest thinkers and profoundest reasoners in the country.' At that time President Lord was not only at the head of the college but of the Congregational denomination in New England. With a bravery worthy of a better cause he followed Mr. Calhoun's doctrines to their natural sequence and he had to give up his position."