CLASS OF 1845

In the last MAGAZINE mention was made of Dr. Samuel H. Willey in connection with the jubilee celebration of the University of California. It should be further said that the University conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws, the president addressing him in these words: "Samuel Hopkins Willey, founder, prophet, seer, beholder. It has been given you to see the hilltop of vision transmuted into the mountain of fulfillment, and a dim-focused future dissolve upon the screen into a firm, clear present. The prayer you offered when the foundations of this commonwealth were laid has found its largest answer through the institution you established. Your life is a bond between our beginning and our present; between your dream and its embodiment ; between your prayer and its answer. Upon you, the foremost benefactor of California, first citizen of the state, I confer the degree of Doctor of Laws." The ovation extended to the aged educator is said by those who have been long connected with the institution to have been the greatest ever given any one in the Greek theatre where the public exercises were held.