But a year ago in the neighboring city of Hartford there was a monument erected to another Brother in Unity,—­the philanthropist who first introduced into this country the system of instructing deaf mutes.  More than a thousand unfortunates bowed around his grave.  And although there was no audible voice of eulogy or thankfulness, yet there were many tears.  And grateful thoughts went up to heaven in silent benediction for him who had unchained their faculties, and given them the priceless treasures of intellectual and social communion.  Thomas H. Gallaudet was a Brother in Unity.

“And he who has been truly called the most learned of poets and the most poetical of learned men,—­whose ascent to the heaven of song has been like the pathway of his own broad sweeping eagle,—­J.G.  Percival,—­is a Brother in Unity.  And what shall I say of Morse?  Of Morse, the wonder-worker, the world-girdler, the space-destroyer, the author of the noblest invention whose glory was ever concentrated in a single man, who has realized the fabulous prerogative of Olympian Jove, and by the instantaneous intercommunication of thought has accomplished the work of ages in binding together the whole civilized world into one great Brotherhood in Unity?

“Gentlemen, these are the men who wait to welcome you to the blessings of our society.  There they stand, like the majestic statues that line the entrance to an eternal pyramid.  And when I look upon one statue, and another, and another, and contemplate the colossal greatness of their proportions, as Canova gazed with rapture upon the sun-god of the Vatican, I envy not the man whose heart expands not with the sense of a new nobility, and whose eye kindles not with the heart’s enthusiasm, as he thinks that he too is numbered among that glorious company,—­that he too is sprung from that royal ancestry.  And who asks for a richer heritage, or a more enduring epitaph, than that he too is a Brother in Unity?”

S.T.B. Sanctae Theologiae Baccalaureus, Bachelor in Theology.

See B.D.

S.T.D. Sanctae Theologiae Doctor.  Doctor in Theology.

See D.D.

STEWARD.  In colleges, an officer who provides food for the students, and superintends the kitchen.—­Webster.

In American colleges, the labors of the steward are at present more extended, and not so servile, as set forth in the above definition.  To him is usually assigned the duty of making out the term-bills and receiving the money thereon; of superintending the college edifices with respect to repairs, &c.; of engaging proper servants in the employ of the college; and of performing such other services as are declared by the faculty of the college to be within his province.

STICK.  In college phrase, to stick, or to get stuck, is to be unable to proceed, either in a recitation, declamation, or any other exercise.  An instructor is said to stick a student, when he asks a question which the student is unable to answer.