CLASS OF 1873

Emory Harris Jones died just before midnight, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1908. On Wednesday morning he was in his usual health, but about 4.30 in the afternoon he had a shock of paralysis, rendering him unconscious. He did not again become conscious. He was born in Windham, Vt., Aug. 11, 1848, the youngest son of Jason D. and Elvira Emory (Harris) Jones. After his early school days in his native town, he went to Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. Here his roommate was Francis E. Clark. Together they entered Dartmouth College in the fall of 1869, and were roommates there during their entire college course. In the fall of 1873 he became a member of the junior class of Union Theological Seminary, New York, intending to enter the ministry of the Congregational church. His health would not permit him to carry on his studies, and after one year he was compelled to relinquish his plan. Returning to his native town he spent the remainder of his days on the farm. He was always active in the church work, and many times in the absence of the pastor, he conducted the church services. He held also various town offices, and represented Windham in the legislature of 1894. It was in the work of the church, however, that he was especially prominent. For twelve years he was a deacon, and for six years superintendent of the Sunday school. As treasurer of the church and registrar of the conference of churches he had been accurate and painstaking. He will be sorely missed in many ways. He was one of those brave souls whose life-plans are thwarted by ill health, but who cheerfully work on as they can, and out of apparent defeat make their lives most efficient. As the local paper says: "It is the loss of such a man that comes as a severe blow to our small country church." He married, in 1888, Mary Hattie Prentiss, who with one son, Paul Prentiss, now a freshman at Dartmouth College, survives him.

Professor John Henry Wright, head of the department of Greek at Harvard University, and dean of the graduate school of arts and sciences, died at his home, 38 Quincy St., Cambridge, Nov. 25, 1908, from heart disease, after a brief illness. He was born in Urumieh, Persia, Feb. 4, 1852. His parents were Rev. Austin Hazen Wright and Catherine (Myers) Wright. His father was a missionary of the American Board among the Nestorians in Persia, and a graduate of Dartmouth in 1830. Until August, 1860, John H. Wright lived in Persia. He then came to America with his parents, and the family resided at first in Andover, Mass., whence they moved to Whitehall, N. Y., and from there to Pouglikeepsie, N. Y. There he completed his preparatory course for college, at Riverview Military Academy. He united with the First Presbyterian church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in May, 1866. In the fall of 1869 five men entered Dartmouth from Poughkeepsie, through Mr. Wright's influence. In college he was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon freshman society, and Psi Upsilon upper-class fraternity. While he was a fine scholar in all departments, he chose Greek as his favorite study, and easily outranked all others in that department. At the Junior Exhibition, then a feature of college life, as the second scholar in the class he delivered the Greek oration. He was one of the editors of the Dartmouth in 1872-3. While taking no part in athletics, he was fond of outdoor life, and formed one of the White Mountain party, which in those days went on a pedestrian trip through the White Mountains at the end of the junior year. He graduated second in the class, delivering the salutatory oration in Latin. In 1873:6 he was assistant professor of ancient languages at the Ohio State University. Two years were then spent in study abroad at the University of Leipzig in the department of classical philology. In 1878 he became professor of Greek at Dartmouth College, holding this position until 1856, when he went to Johns Hopkins University, as professor of classical philology and dean of the college board. After one year there, he accepted the chair of professor of Greek at Harvard University, and afterwards became head of that department. In 1895 he was made the dean of the graduate school of arts and sciences, holding the position until his death. In 1906 and 1907 he was a professor in the American school of classical studies at Athens. He was a frequent contributor to classical and archeological journals, and edited a number of classical publocations and text-books, i. e., ClassicalQuarterly, Classical Review. AmericanJournal of Archeology (1897 to 1906), etc. The funeral services were simple but impressive. After the prayers at the home, special services were held at Appleton Chapel, for both Professors Bartlett and Wright, who had died the same day. Each casket was borne on the shoulders of eight stalwart Harvard students, who marched with slow step, to the music of the organ, up the aisle of the chapel to the front of the pulpit. The choir of Harvard students chanted the Beati Mortui, selections of Scripture were read, prayer was offered by Rev. Francis G. Peabody, the old hymn of Isaac Watts, "Our God, Our Help "in Ages Past," was sung by the congregation, and the interment at Mount Auburn followed. Professor Wright married, April 2, 1879, Miss Mary Tappan, daughter of President Eli Todd Tappan of Kenyon College. Mrs. Wright and two sons. Austin Tappan (Harvard '05) and John Kirkland, are living, the daughter, Elizabeth Tappan, having died Apr. 4, 1896, at the age of sixteen. This was the great and bitter sorrow of Professor Wright's life. Dartmouth conferred on him in 1876 the degree of Master of Arts, and both Dartmouth and Western Reserve gave him in 1901 the degree of Doctor of Laws. He contributed many articles to various magazines, and edited many books; among the more important literary labors not already mentioned are: articles in Atlantic Monthly, American Journal ofPhilology; editor with Professors Perrin of Tale and West of Princeton of the "Twentieth Century Classical Series" (D. Appleton a nd Co.) ; editor of "A History of All Nations," 24 vols., pub. by Lee Bros, and Co., Phila., 1902. In 1895-6 he was president of the American Philological Association. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; a corresponding member of the Brooklyn Institute ; a councilor of the Archeological Institute of America, etc.

Rev. Dr. Francis E. Clark, president of the World's Christian Endeavor Union, has just completed a Christian Endeavor campaign in thirty cities of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. He was then in Norway, and on Nov. 20 was received by His Majesty, King Haakon, at the palace. Doctor Clark went from Norway to attend meetings in Paris and Berlin, and after that was present at the Spanish national Y. P. S. C. E. convention in Barcelona. He left for home December 9.

Secretary, Rev .S. W. Adriance, Winchester, Mass.