It  cost  us  a  pang  to  take  a  final  departure  from  those  venerable
walls,  upon  which  memory  had  hung  so  many  pleasing  pictures
of  the  past,  but  our  sadness  was  turned  to  joy  when  we  found
how  vastly  superior  were  to  be  our  accommodations  and  comforts
here.  Fresh  air  and  light  and  beautiful  sceneiy  and  poetical  as-
sociations all  centre  about  this  spot,  to  give  elasticity  to  both
body  and  mind,  while  a  well  regulated  building  supplied  with
every  convenience  makes  it  easier  to  accomplish  the  great  end  for
which  this  Institution  was  established.
Scarcely,  however,  do  the  opening  glories  of  Spring  and  early
Summer  give  us  a  full  realization  of  the  beauties  of  this  place,  its
enchanting  walks,  shady  groves,  enlivened,  in  every  direction,  by
a  view  of  the  ever  changing  panorama  of  the  broad  river  below  us,
before  some  of  us  are  called  to  quit  these  scenes  to  call  them  our
own  no  more.    Almost  may  we  exclaim  with  Eve :

«<  Most  I  leare  thee  Pindlie,  tlrnf  lea^e
Thee,  nftiire  woUL,  these  happy  walks  and  shades;
Fit  haants  of  Qods,  where  I  had  hoped  to  spend
Qoiety  thoagh  md,  the  respite  of  that  day
Whioh  most  be  mortal  to  us  both."

The  parting  hour  has  arrived — the  hour  to  say  farewell.  Soon
we,  who  but  a  few  short  years  ago  were  grossly  ignorant,  shut  oflf
from  all  communion  with  our  kind,  are  to  go  out  to  meet  the
world  and  battle  with  it  for  ourselves.  Let  us,  then,  before  we
go,  express  to  our  benefiictors  and  friends  a  part  of  the  obligations
we  feel  to  them.
