Perhaps the last method is the best where it succeeds.
But the effect of failure is most mischievous. Presidents
Quincy, Everett, Walker and Sparks administered in succession
the office of President during my connection with the Academic
Department and the Law School, although Dr. Walker's inauguration
was not until later. Each of them in his own way was among
the first men of his time. Quincy had been an eminent statesman,
a famous orator, and a most successful mayor of Boston. Edward
Everett had been in his early youth one of the most famous
pulpit orators of the country, afterward a distinguished
Member of Congress, Governor of the Commonwealth, Minister
to England, and Senator of the United States. He was a consummate
orator, on whose lips thousands and thousands of his countrymen
had hung entranced. He was, what is less generally remembered
now, perhaps the ablest and most accomplished diplomatist
ever in the public service of the United States. Jared Sparks
was a profound student of history, somewhat dull as a narrator,
but of unerring historic judgment.
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