Now that the success of the modern tendencies in Cambridge is, in the main, assured, the University and the country owe a debt of gratitude to the man who started the college on its new career of progress. Dr. Hill had a mind of remarkably strong original power, and came to see early in life that the great need of modern education was some method of imparting to the pupil power and knowledge, as well as learning. When he came to preside over Harvard College he immediately instituted reforms with this end in view. He caused examination papers to be set in such a way that those who undertook to pass them must use their thinking powers as well as their memory. He brought about greater freedom in the choice of a course of study believing that a man might fulfil the ends of education as well by devoting himself to the natural sciences, for example, as by conning Greek and Latin. That Dr. Hill was right the whole country has now come to believe. The difficulties which he encountered seem incredible to us now. All the more should we honor his memory.