CLASS OF 1872

John Edward Russell, professor of mental and moral philosophy in Williams College, died February 25, in Williamstown, Mass., after a long illness.

Professor Russell was born in Walpole, N. H., January 8, 1848, being the son of John B. and Lucy (Hooper) Russell. He graduated from Kimball Union Academy in 1867, and entered Williams College, remaining but a short time. In the winter of 1868-9 he entered Dartmouth, and remained with the class of 1872 until junior spring, when he returned to Williams and there he graduated in 1872. At Dartmouth he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

In 1872-3 he taught in Berwick (Me.) Academy. He then studied two years at Andover Theological Seminary, and then for three years. 1875-8, he preached for the Congregational church of Putney, Vt. In 1879-80 he resumed his theological studies at Yale Divinity School, graduating there in 1880. In 1881-2 he was a graduate student at Yale and preached at North Canaan, Conn. In 1882-3 he preached at Dalton, Mass., and then went abroad and studied for a year at Berlin.

Returning to America, he was never ordained to the ministry, but became in 1884 instructor in New Testament biblical theology in Yale Divinity School, being promoted to the professorship of the same subject in 1885. In 1889 he left Yale to become professor of philosophy at Williams. There he won the hearts of the students to an unusual extent by his sympathetic and helpful interest in the athletic teams and other undergraduate interests, until scarcely a commencement passed at which the senior class did not designate him in its class vote as its "favorite professor." In addition to his duties at Williams, he was lecturer on the philosophy of religion at Harvard Divinity School jn 1893-4, and university preacher at the University of Chicago in 1906-7.

In 1882 he was married in Minneapolis,. Minn., to Abbie Louise Baker, who survives him, with two daughters.