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rest from their labours and their works do follow them.’
There is, however, something peculiar and different from most in this celebration. It was instituted by the very man whom we commemorate: instituted not for his own glory, but ‘to make mention of the benefactors of this College, and to encourage its members to search out the secrets of nature by way of experiment.’[1]
- ↑ The very words of Harvey in the deed by which he provides for this Oration are worth quotation, so well do they express the genial, loving character of the man.
After ordering a general feast to be kept within the College once every year for such Fellows as shall please to come, he adds:
‘And on the day when such feast shall be kept, some one person (Member of the said College), to be from time to time appointed by the President, shall make an Oration publicly in the said College, wherein shall be a commemoration of all the benefactors of the said College by name, and what in particular they have done for the benefit of the College; with an exhortation to others to imitate those benefactors, and to contribute their endeavours for the advancement of the Society according to the example of those benefactors, and with an exhortation to the Fellows and Members of the said College, to search and study out the secrets of nature by way of experiment, and also for the honour of the profession to continue mutual love and affection amongst themselves, without which neither the
