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N everything except the first and fourth items. It has given to the
country

one President, two Vice Presidents, nineteen Cabinet officers,
nineteen Foreign Ministers, fifty-five United States Senators, one
hundred
and forty-two
Congressmen, and thirty-five Governors. The collegians have ranked

among the principal leaders in the political life of the nation.
Fifty-eight per cent. of the chief
national offices have been filled by them. Thomas Jefferson, author
of the "Declaration of Independence," was a college man. Hamilton,
Madison, and Jay, who took such a prominent part in the framing of
the Constitution of the United States, were college-trained
men. Three-fourths of the signers of the Declaration of Independence
were college graduates.
These and other superior men in public life, at this period, were
educated and possessed a scholarship that was in compass and variety
more than abreast with the learning of the time. George Washington
was a self-made
man, but he had recourse to America's greatest statesman,
Alexander Hamilton, a graduate of Columbia
College, in preparing his state papers. The counsellors of Abraham
Lincoln, during the stormy days of the Rebellion, were men of trained
minds.
"All the leaders," says Professor S. N. Fellow, "in that Cabinet were
college-trained men. William

H. Seward, the shrewdest diplomatist, who held other nations at bay
until the Rebellion was throttled; Salmon P. Chase, whose fertile
brain developed a financial system by which our nation was saved from
national bankruptcy, and made national bonds as good as the gold in
foreign markets; Edwin M.
Stanton, that man of iron, who organized a million of
raw recruits into an army equal to any in the world; Gideon Welles,
who, almost from nothing, created a navy sufficient

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