tread was firm and free, and the same unconscious dignity followed him then that attended him when he ascended the eastern portico of the Capitol to deliver his Inaugural Address. He was modest and self-possessed, without vanity or self-consciousness, and then and always absolutely free from any affectation whatever." A house is still pointed out in Hiram, the clapboards of which he planed in one of his vacations. But bell-ropes and jack-planes do not make men great: if they did, the road to greatness would be easy enough. So we pass on to things more important.

On his arrival at Hiram in August, 1851, Mr. Garfield took up his studies where he had dropped them at Chester. After one term's work as student and janitor, he retired for a term to teach his last district-school. In the spring of 1852 he returned, and continued in Hiram until he went to Williamstown in 1854. Principal Hayden and teachers Dunshee, Munnell, and Hull were his instructors. To Dunshee he probably recited more than to all the rest put together. Garfield always appreciated and respected his Hiram teachers; but it is perfectly just to them to say that Miss Booth, who never was a teacher of his, but rather a fellowstudent, did much more than they did to mould his

character and give direction to his life. That he so felt, any one can see by reading between the lines his noble tribute to her character and work. Not only so, but he says in words,

"On my own behalf, I take this occasion to say, that for her generous and powerful aid, so often and so efficiently rendered, for her quick and never-failing sympathy, and for her intelligent, unselfish, and unswerving friendship, I owe her a debt of gratitude and affection, for the payment of which the longest term of life would have been too short."

But it may be said, "This was in the presence of the Hiram fellowship." Let it be said, then, that before the Williams College fellowship he bore a similar testimony. At the Williams banquet, held in Cleveland, Jan. 10, 1881, after recognizing his obligation to the common schools of Ohio and to Williams College, he said,

"I am glad to say, reverently, in the presence of the many ladies here to-night, that I owe to a woman who has long since been asleep, perhaps a higher debt intellectually than I owe to any one else. After that comes my debt to Williams College."

He called no name, but it was Almeda Booth. Probably the best account of Garfield's Hiram

studies that can be given without access to his diary is his account of Miss Booth's studies. Let the reader substitute his name for hers, in the following paragraphs: —

"I remember that she and I were members of the class that began Xenophon's 'Anabasis,' in the fall term of 1852. Near the close of that term I also began to teach in the Eclectic, and thereafter, like her, could keep up my studies only outside of my own class hours. In mathematics and the physical sciences, I was far behind her; but we were nearly at the same place in Greek and Latin, each having studied them about three terms. She had made her home at President Hayden's, almost from the first; and I became a member of his family at the beginning of the winter term of 1852-53. Thereafter, for nearly two years, she and I studied together, and recited in the same classes (frequently without other associates), till we had nearly completed the classical course.

"From a diary which I then kept, and in which my own studies are recorded, I am able to state, quite accurately, what she accomplished in the classics, from term to term, in the two following years. During the winter and spring terms of 1853, she read Xenophon's 'Memorabilia' entire, reciting to Professor Dunshee. In the summer vacation of 1853, twelve of the more advanced students engaged Professor Dunshee as a tutor for one month. John Harnit, H. W. Everest, Philip Burns, C. C. Foote, Miss Booth, and I were of the number. A literary society was formed, in which all took part. During those four weeks, besides taking an active