Excerpt from Normal Offering, 1916, Vol. 18
For more than threescore years Mr. Boyden gave to the school a thoroughly consecrated service. For forty-six years he stood at its head, directing its affairs and shaping its policies. During these many years of service his noble purposes, his kind and genial nature, his firm but just discipline, his positive convictions, and his clear ion made him always a most efficient leader and an inspiration alike to his pupils and his profession. Not to be ministered unto but to minister was the evident purpose of his entire life.
For many years he stood as a prominent figure in the educational life of the state and nation, and few have contributed more than he to the efficiency of our present public school system. While his life was one of great power and influence, it was at the same time beautifully simple.
As a citizen of Bridgewater and of the Commonwealth and as a faithful church member, he worked untiringly to bring to pass the things that are worth while.
It is not, however, as a citizen, a church member, or a prominent educator that the Normal graduate has known him best, but rather, as a kind, personal friend, a wise counselor, and a sympathetic teacher His youthfulness, preserved to the very last, was due to his sympathetic touch with young life. He could always take the w-point of his pupils and he never lost his love for little children.
The great buildings of the institution stand as a fitting monument to the genius of this great man, but a monument of far greater beauty and worth, and one in which we feel sure that Mr. Boyden himself took the greatest satisfaction, is found in the many strong and noble charac ters which he has helped so efficiently to build.
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