CLASS OF 1876

Rev. Lewis William Morey died June 16 in a sanatorium in Everett, Mass., where he had been about three weeks. He was the son of Lyman and Mercy (Chamberlain) Morey, and was born in Lowell, Mass., November 26, 1848. He was prepared for college at Montpelier Seminary, his mother's home (his father having died) being then in Fairlee, Vt. In the fall of 1871 he entered Wesleyan University, but left on account of ill health in a few weeks, coming to Dartmouth in the fall of 1872. He was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity. Throughout his studies he was obliged to work his own way. For a short time after graduation he studied law in Lowell, and then with a change of plans studied in Boston University School of Theology in 1877-8. In 1878-80 he preached for the Methodist church of East Fairfield, Vt., and in 1880-2 at Lyndon, Vt. He then became a Congregationalism and was pastor at Needham, Mass., 1882-6, and at Lancaster, Mass., 1886-9. For the next eleven years he lived in Lowell, his work being for several years that of ministerial secretary of the Evangelistic Association of New England, with an office in Boston, and from 1896 to 1900 being pastor at Antrim, N. H. In 1900 he removed to Maiden, Mass. He had married, September 1, 1880, Sarah Frances Benner of Lowell. She died September 9, 1904, leaving no children. Mr. Morey was pastor at Gorham, N. H., in 1903-S, at Derby, Vt., in 1905-6, and at Putney, Vt., from December 1, 1906, to February, 1911, retiring from the failure of his health.

Rufus Phillips Williams, instructor in chemistry in the Boston English High School, died August 23 at his home in Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Williams was born in Ashfield, Mass., January 3, 1851, being a son of Freeman and Deborah (Field) Williams, removed with his family to Bernardston, Mass., and fitted for college at Powers Institute, Bernardston. In college he was a member of Psi Upsilon. For the first year after graduation he was principal of Drury Academy, North Adams, Mass., and then studied for a year at Harvard, receiving his master's degree in 1878. He then taught for a year each in the high schools of Lincoln and Weston, Mass., and was headmaster of the Cobbett Grammar School in Lynn, Mass., 1880-3. He then went to Davenport, lowa, as principal of its high school, but was almost immediately recalled to Massachusetts to become junior master in the Boston English High School, being transferred to the department of chemistry in 1885, where he has since taught with distinguished success. He was the author of several valuable textbooks, of which the following is a list: Introduction to Physical and Chemical Science (in collaboration with A. P. Gage '59), 1888; Laboratory Manual for General Chemistry, 1887; Teachers' Handbook, 1888; Chemical Experiments, General and Analytical, 1896; Laboratory Manual of Inorganic Chemistr 1896; Elements of Chemistry, 1897; Chemical Exercises for Class Room and Home Study, 1903; Essentials of Chemistry, Experimental, Descriptive, and Theoretical, 1910. He had been for a long time metrological editor of School Science and Mathematics of Chicago, being deeply interested in the use of the metric system. He was married June 28, 1894, to Lillian Walker of Boston, who survives him. We quote from the appreciation of a writer in the Boston Transcript: "The service of Mr. Williams to science in general and to chemistry in particular is one that but few men are privileged to perform. In pedagogy, willing and in the position to conduct experiments on a heroic plan, he developed methods of teaching that he has followed many years with most marked success. He instituted and vitalized the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers, and the teaching force in this whole section will long miss his energetic presence, his keen analysis of all situations and his enthusiastic promotion of all agencies leading towards'the development of teaching his .beloved science, chemistry. A sturdy disciplinarian and with a full sense of the dignity of the classroom and the importance of study, the impressions of the value of character left in his 'boys' have influenced thousands to better, nobler, upright manhood."

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