Antiquity of the family of Dick

his abilities, they afterwards elected him
to that office for seven >ears success-
ively. It was indeed their earnest wish
that he should have continued still longer
as their head • but this he positively de-
clined, as he thought that he should thus
deprive other gentlemen of a dignity, to
which, from their merit, they were well
entitled. But after his resignation of
the office of President, his attachment
to the College, and his earnest endea-
vours to promote its interest, continued
unabated. He not only contributed li-
berally towards the building of a hall
for their accommodation, but strenu-
ously exerted himself in promoting every
undertaking in which he thought that
the honour or interest of the College
was concerned. As a testimony of the
sense which his fellow Members enter-
tained of his services, a portrait of him
was, by their unanimous sufferages hung
up in their hall ; a mark of distinction