Deaths

[A listing of deaths of which word has been received within the past month. Full notices may appearin this issue or may appear in a later number.]

FOLSOM, CHANNING, '70, Newmarket, N. H., Feb. 26, 1937. LEVISTON, IRWEN, '82, Richmond, Va., Feb. *4> 1937- MAGUIRE, DR. EUGENE L., '01, Somerville, Mass., Feb. 27, 1937. LANE, HAROLD F., '05, Washington, D. C., Feb. 27, 1937. BICKFORD, HARRY S., '15, Batavia, N. Y., Mar. 5, 1937. WETHEY, DR. FRANCIS VAN V., '16, Hanover, N. H., Mar. 5, 1937. FALL, DR. HERMAN, '17, July 25, 1934.

ALUMNI NOTES

Necrology

Class of 1870

CHANNING FOLSOM died at his home in Newmarket, N. H., February 26, 1937, after a long period of failing health.

He was born in Newmarket, June 1, 1848, the son of Dr. William and Irena (Lamprey) Folsom, and prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. On account of poor eyesight and meager financial resources, he was obliged to leave college before graduation, but in 1885 he received the honorary degree of A.M. and in 1903 was enrolled with his class with the degree of A.B. For some years he has been acting as secretary of the class.

Teaching became Mr. Folsom's lifework. Beginning in Durham and Newmarket, N. H., and Sandwich, Mass., he later taught in Amesbury, Mass., and Portsmouth, N. H. In 1874 he became principal of the Belknap Grammar School in Dover, and three years later was made submaster of the Eliot School in Boston. In 1882 he returned to Dover as superintendent of the city schools, and served as such for sixteen years. In 1898 he became superintendent of public instruction for the state of New Hampshire, which position he held for six years. In this capacity he showed marked ability as an educator. He promoted new and progressive methods of teaching throughout the state, and sought to enliven the interest of citizens and communities in their local schools.

He then retired to his ancestral home in Newmarket, and was active in all local affairs. He was superintendent of schools for the towns of Newmarket, Epping, and Stratham in 1906-9; selectman of Newmarket; moderator of its school district 18 years; deputy sheriff 12 years; chairman of the building committee of its high school in 1924. In 1902 he had been a member of the Constitutional Convention from Dover. He had been president of the State Teachers' Association and its treasurer for ten years; president of the New England Association of School Superintendents and of the American Institute. He was president of the Folsom Family Association and of the Piscataqua Pioneers. He early became interested in Masonry, and was a Knight Templar and a gad degree Mason. November 12, 1870, Mr. Folsom was married to Ruth F. Savage of Newmarket, who died in 1929. Of their five children, two daughters survive, Mrs. Perley Young of Newmarket and Mrs. Edward Ackrovd of Dover. Two deceased sons were graduates of Dartmouth, Henry H. Folsom '92 and Arthur C. Folsom '97.

Class of 1874

FRANK OTIS BALDWIN was born August 25,1853, in Maiden, Mass. His father was Otis Lincoln Baldwin. Through his mother, Lydia Maria Thompson, he was descended from John Fiske, who settled in Salem in 1633,. His youth was spent in Lynn, Mass., where he attended the public schools.

As a lad he was not robust, but played baseball on his school teams and took long walks along the shore and delighted to tell of the welcoming cry of the Marblehead boys: "Rock 'im 'round the corner, mateys —he's a Lynner!"

His uncle, William Luther Thompson, had graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1858 with Phi Beta Kappa honors; doubtless this influenced Frank's choice in favor of Dartmouth when the decision was made to go to college,—his studies always were easy for him and he read widely as a boy.

In Dartmouth he participated in many activities. He played baseball on the '74 class team and also on the college nine; he was purchasing agent and manager of a small "eating club"; he went on many tramping trips in the White Mountains. In his junior year the tramping party took the name of "Modocs," each fellow being known by some Indian name—Captain Jack, Mooch, and so forth—except that one was found to have chosen the name of Captain Jack's white mare! They rented a small covered wagon to carry their heavier equipment and on the tail-piece some wit painted a cartoon of an Indian brave running off with a plump hen under his arm, pursued by an irate farmer.

He was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity, and attended as a delegate some of the conventions of the fraternity at other colleges.

In his senior year he was one of the editors of The Dartmouth and contributed some sketches.

In 1874 he was graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors, and had decided to enter the teaching profession. An opportunity was offered him to study further in Germany (the mode at the time), but he did not consider this to be necessary for the career he had chosen as teacher of pupils of high school age.

The autumn of 1874 found him in lowa, in charge of a country school in the beautiful Friends' community of New Providence. He soon, however, transferred to Webster City, where he was both principal of the Academy and superintendent of the public schools, until 1879. In 1879, in one week, he lost two sisters and a brotherall younger—who succumbed to diphtheria in his father's home in Lynn.

In 1877 he had married Mary Dianthe Dudley, daughter of Henry and Levina (Slack) Dudley of New Providence. She was descended from early colonists in Connecticut, and her parents had come to lowa as bride and groom in a covered wagon to join a colony of friends. She had attended Grinnell College and taught school.

In 1879 Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin moved to Lynn, Mass., where he was successively principal of the Cobbet Grammar School, the Lynn High School, the Lee Hall Classical and Commercial School, and a member of the Lynn School Board.

One of his hobbies during the years in Lynn was to tramp the Lynn woods with an enthusiastic botanist, Mr. Tracy, who knew every wild flower and pirate's cave there hidden.

From 1888 he was principal of the Punchard Free School in Andover, Mass. (an endowed high school), except for the year 1894-95, when he headed the classical department of the University School for Boys in Baltimore, Md. In the summer of 1895 he visited England, Scotland, and France.

Shortly after the death of his son, Ralph Dudley, in 1902—a student at Dartmouth —he gave up teaching. Another son, Arthur Frank, had died in infancy in 1884.

He was private secretary for Congressmen S. L. Powers and John W. Weeks in Washington, D. C., and later was Chicago manager of the Durable Wire Rope Division of the John A. Roebling's Sons Company. From a serious illness in 1917, he only partially recovered. He was, however, able to make and care for a small vegetable and flower garden, to enjoy the radio from its pioneering days to within a few weeks of his death, and he kept a series of scrapbooks in his later years. He attended his 50th and 55th reunions at Dartmouth; and both summers he and his wife visited the Chicago "Century of Progress Exposition."

He used to delight in reading Goethe and other German and English authors aloud; and in 1915 took up Spanish as a hobby and made a complete manuscript translation of Ibanez's "The Cathedral."

After the death of his wife in 1935, he made his home with his only surviving child, Florence (Mrs. Oliver J. Lee) in Evanston, Ill., where he passed away after

a brief illness on January 24, 1937. A brother, Fred, of Lynn, also survives him. His ashes were laid at rest in the Friends' Cemetery in New Providence, where his wife and two sons were interred.

His declining years were made happier by the loyalty of classmates, friends, and former pupils, who kept in touch with him by letters and visits.

To quote from an appreciation:

"As a teacher he is clear and accurate andinspires enthuiasm. As a disciplinarian, hesecures at once good order and the highest respect and affection of his pupils. Heis a man of singularly pure and elevatedcharacter, and every way well fitted forsuccess and usefulness in the profession hehas chosen."

Class of 1879

RUSSELL ALLEN WENTWORTH died February 10, 1937, at his home in Batavia, N. Y., after an illness of about a week from arterio-sclerosis. He had been in poor health for the last six months, but had kept up his usual work as a surveyor of farms, city lots, highways, etc., until within a few weeks of the end.

He was born January 5, 1853, at Berwick, Me., the son of Mark and Olive (Lord) Wentworth. A great-grandfather, Timothy Wentworth, was a first cousin of Governor Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire, and his maternal grandfather, David Lord, was an own cousin of President Nathan Lord of Dartmouth College.

His father died when Russell was seven years old, leaving the widow with four small children and very limited resources. She moved with her family across the river to Salmon, N. H., where the boy soon learned the meaning of hard work. He delivered milk to residences in the morning and sold papers on the street in the evening. Later he worked in a shoe factory and in the cotton mills.

After attendance at the public schools and a winter term at Tilton Seminary, and with $900 saved from his earnings, he entered the Scientific Department of Dartmouth College in 1873 with the class of '77. But in spite of the strictest economy and many hours spent on such work as was available, sawing wood, janitorship, etc., at the end of two years he was obliged to leave college, greatly to his disappointment. After a winter of school teaching, he worked for a year as fireman on a Union Pacific freight train in Nebraska.

Returning to Hanover in 1877, he joined the class of '79, with which he graduated. He and Frank Stanley roomed together, preparing their frugal meals in their own room, first in Wentworth Hall and senior year in Thornton. He was a member of the old Vitruvian fraternity, a leader of the church and chapel choirs, and chorister at the Class Day exercises at graduation. He said later that "the four years at Hanover tuvre years of inspiration and delight."

For twenty-five years after graduation he led a strenuous life in a variety of mining and railroad enterprises both East and West. There was a year in Dakota in a mining project, then ten years with the Erie Railroad system, in construction work and coal mining. This was followed by engineering work for the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and positions with the N. Y. Central and the Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh Railways. In 1899 a year was spent building railroads and opening coal mines in Mexico.

In 1905 he opened an office as an engineer and surveyor in Batavia, where he built a comfortable home in 1910, in which he has lived ever since. Working for himself in these later years, he was able to devote more spare time to reading and study than in the earlier days, and found great delight in the acquisition of new ideas for which he said he had been "hungry for twenty years." He made a specialty for some time of English grammar, and then took up the study of Spanish and of astronomy.

AVentworth was married three times, first in 1884 to Elizabeth Tubbs of Osceola, Penn., who lived only a year. She left a son, Edward T., Harvard, '09, Harvard Medical School, '13, now a prominent surgeon in Rochester, N. Y. In 1888 he married Jeanette Hemingway in Emery Mills, Me. A daughter, Olive, was born to them, who is the widow of Dr. Frank L. Slater of Rochester, N. Y. The second wife died in 1911, and in 1913 he married Mrs. Maud Van Doren Mount, who had for several years been assistant pastor of the Baptist church in Batavia, and who survives him. Besides the wife and two children, there are a step-son, Walter H. Mount, eight grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Anna Durgin, whose two sons are Dartmouth graduates, Russell L. '15 and Charles F. '16.

For the last five years Wentworth has been the oldest living graduate member of the class. He was present at the fiftieth anniversary reunion in 1929, and was always a loyal and interested member. His letters were especially appreciated by the Secretary.

Class of 1900

WILLIAM JOSEPH COLBERT died at the Soldiers' Hospital at Togus, Me., on February 13. He was born in Danvers, Mass., February 4, 1877, the son of Maurice Colbert. His preparatory work was done at the Danvers High School, and he entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1895 with the class of 1899. On May 2, 1898 he enlisted in the First Regiment, Maine Infantry, and served as a private in the Spanish War, receiving his discharge on October 25, 1898. He re-entered college the following February with the class of 1900 and completed his course with that class.

In college Bill was recognized as one of the most intellectually brilliant members of the undergraduate body. His respect for regulations was not always great, and his attention to requirements not always perfect, but, whenever a crisis arose, his quickness of apprehension, his ready memory, and his high mental capacity, when once exercised, carried him with seemingly little effort through obstacles which stood in his way. He was excellent company, with a highly developed, if not always delicate, sense of humor. Whenever he cared to apply himself, scholastic honors were at his command. Thus in senior year he was a Rufus Choate Scholar and won the Pray Modern Language Prize in French.

Upon graduation he embraced the opportunity, then widely available, of entering the educational service of the Spanish possessions which had just been taken over by the United States. He was sent to the Philippines, where his career was one of high success. In 1904 he became superintendent of the Nautical School at Manila; from 1906 he was principal of the Manila High School, with an interlude as acting division superintendent of schools. While in this position he was a pioneer in introducing American athletics into the high schools of the East. From 1910 to 1913 he was head of the department of mathematics and for a time acting dean of the School of Engineering in the University of the Philippines, and from 1913 to 1915 he was dean of the College of Liberal Arts in the same institution. In the latter year he returned to the United States entirely broken in health by his long stay in the tropics. He was awarded the honorary degree of Master of Arts by Dartmouth, with the following citation by President Nichols:

"Pioneer in the cause of education in thePhilippines, who, in a career of fourteenyears of faithful and unbroken service, hassteadily risen to posts of greater responsibility and opportunity for wider influenceand unselfishness, who has sacrificed hishealth and risked his life through devotionto the cause of enlightenment among a backward people."

The injury to his health proved to be permanent. For a number of years he could do no work. Later he undertook various business enterprises at Durham, N. H„ and engaged in chicken farming in the same place. Still later he was an employee of the Census Office, he worked for a time in the Internal Revenue Bureau in Porto Rico, and was prohibition enforcement officer. More recently he has been incapacitated for active effort and has lived in Augusta, Me., retiring to the Soldiers' Hospital at Togus when the attacks of severe illness, which became increasingly frequent, overtook him. It was there that he died.

His funeral was held at his birthplace at Danvers, with military honors by the Spanish War Veterans and the American Legion. Interment was in the family lot in St. Mary's cemetery.

Colbert was never married. The nearest relatives who survive are cousins.

DR. NATHANIEL NILES MORSE died at his home in Goffstown, N. H., on February 24.

Nat was born in Boston, Mass., on February 15, 1876, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Morse. No member of the class had a more wide-spread Dartmouth connection. His father, at one time professor of music at Boston University, became musical director at Dartmouth in 1901, and was a familiar figure to many generations of undergraduates as "Harmony" Morse. His great-great-grandfather, Nathaniel Niles, of Fairlee, Vt., lawyer, inventor, poet, minister, judge, and member of Congress, was trustee in the early days of the institution, and an unbending leader of the faction opposed to President John Wheelock in the historic days of the Dartmouth College case. No fewer than six of his great-uncles were Dartmouth graduates, as was his brother, Harold M. Morse, of the class of 1903.

Nat entered college from the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Boys' High School, spending three years with the class of 1900, while the work of his junior year was done at New York University. In the latter institution he became a member of Zeta Psi and Theta Nu Epsilon. In undergraduate days he was quiet and somewhat reserved, but well liked by those who knew him well. He had an excellent voice, and was a member of the Glee Club for each of his three years at Dartmouth. In high school days he had received instruction in military training, and thus became one of the leaders of the organized drill which marked the spring days of 1898, with the advent of the Spanish War.

After graduation he entered the Harvard Medical School, receiving his medical degree in 1904. He then occupied various positions in a number of New York hospitals until 1910, when he became surgeon to the Southern Railroad, with headquarters at Harrisburg, Va. After a year in this Position he removed to Boston and entered upon his real life-work as a specialist in anaesthetics, holding the position of anaesthetist in the Boston Dispensary, the Boston City Hospital, and Carney Hospital. He home was in Mattapan.

Continued exposure to anaesthetics eventually undermined his health, and some four years ago he was obliged to give up active work on account of severe injury to his lungs. He then retired to a small farm at Goffstown, N. H. His last years were full of suffering. Since July he had been confined to his bed, and death came to him as much of a relief. A private funeral service was held at his home and his body was taken to Boston for cremation.

Dr. Morse was marrried to Helen Louise Stewart at Providence, R. 1., on March 31, 1904. He is survived by Mrs. Morse and by three daughters: Mrs. Lawrence Flint of Wakefield, Mass., Mary, a nurse at Peterborough, N. H„ and Nancy, who is engaged in secretarial work in Boston.

Class of 1901

THOMAS AUGUSTUS MASON was born in North field, Mass., May 7, 1878, his father then being a teacher in the Northfield Schools. He prepared at Cushing Academy and entered Dartmouth with the class of 1901. In college he was always very quiet and unassuming, no mixer, but his friendship was greatly appreciated by those to whom it was given. He was always a student, winning the Third Entrance Prize, and Phi Beta Kappa honors at graduation. Following graduation he studied at Dartmouth and at Harvard, where he received his M. A. degree in 1907. He taught at St. Paul's School at Concord, N. H., then at Northfield, and was assistant professor of Romance languages at Syracuse University in 1910-12. He later taught Sociology at the University of Washington.

He then entered social work, and was for a time director of the Central Council of Social Agencies at New Bedford, Mass.

For the past ten years he had served as executive secretary of the Thirty-fourth Street Midtown Association of New York City. As secretary of this association he was an early advocate of the construction of the Eighth Avenue Subway. He also campaigned for removal of the Sixth Avenue "El," and started a tree-planting campaign which resulted in the planting of Chinese elms along 35th, 36th, and 37th Sts., in the St. Gabriel's Park section. In 1930 he directed the Association's drive for construction of a ramp to the West Side elevated highway at 34th St. One of the achievements of his association was the successful drive for the removal of the elevated railroad spur at East 34th St. Tom's chief work was mobilizing the sentiment of the 34th St. merchants and property owners regarding proposed plans and legislation affecting the downtown area.

During the war Tom Mason served with the American Red Cross and aided in the evacuation of the refugees from Chateau Thierry.

In college Tom was a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity, and always kept his interest in the fraternity, as well as in the College and his class. His work seemed to prevent him from regularly attending the class luncheons, but he did make the reunion last June in Hanover, the first one he had ever attended, but he did have a most wonderful time, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

In a letter to Gillie soon after, he wrote as follows:

"Reunions are old stuff for you ofcourse, but for me there was a particularemotional kick in seeing everybody afterthirty-five years of grave-like silence. It hada dramatic quality, as if suddenly a lot ofyoung fellows of the first act had appearedin the second act costumed in grey wigsand false stomachs. But it was mighty niceto see them again and especially to feelthey were glad to see me. Some hadchanged little, like yourself and HowardHall, and now I feel sure I shall go to the40th, if the going is still good." This expresses in his own words a side of Tom Mason that perhaps few of us understood and realized, but it does show his true character and real worth.

Tom Mason was not sick long. His doctors had ordered a rest in bed, and after that to seek a less exacting position. Heart trouble developed, and he passed away Saturday, February 13, 1937, at his home, 260 West 11 th St. He is survived by his widow, Julia Wells Mason, to whom he was married September 6, 1922, and a sister. Harry Gilmore and Joe Raphael represented the class at the funeral services.

EUGENE LEO MAGUXRE passed away at his home in Somerville, Mass., February 26, 1937. He had not been well for over a year, but with characteristic unselfishness had never complained. The past winter had been spent in Florida in the hopes of regaining strength and vigor, but to no avail.

Gene was born in Somerville, March 1, 1878, the son of John and Ann (Shields) Maguire, and after attending the public schools entered Holy Cross College. In the fall of 1899 he transferred to Dartmouth with Tim Shanahan, and they entered the class of 1901. Although with us only junior and senior years, Gene absorbed more Dartmouth spirit than most men do in four. He was always loyal to Dartmouth and the class, rarely missing a meeting in Hanover or Boston. He and Tim were close friends and were classmates, roommates, and fraternity brothers while in college, and this close friendship continued throughout their medical courses, and in after life. Gene was of a genial and cordial disposition, and ever generous. No one will ever know the good he did for those of poorer circumstances, and the free attention and medical care he gave willingly and unselfishly. We shall miss him, but it was a privilege to know him and to know of his work.

Following graduation from Dartmouth he entered Harvard Medical School and received his M. D. degree from there in 1905. He served his interneship at Carney Hospital, and later became house physician at the Boston Lying-in-Hospital. In 1907 he opened an office in Somerville, and at his death he was senior surgeon at the Somerville Hospital and secretary of the medical board.

Dr. Maguire belonged to the American Medical Association, the Somerville Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society, and the New England Obstetrical and Gynecological Society. Active in fraternal groups, he was a charter member of the Charitable Irish Society, member of the Catholic Order of Foresters, Mt. Benedict Council, Knights of Columbus, Bishop Cheverus Assembly, K. of C., Carney Alumni, Guild of St. Luke, and the Somerville Lodge of Elks. He was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

September 11, 1912, he married Mary J. T. Barry, who died some years ago. January 5, 1932, he married Mary Gertrude Kelly of Milton, Mass., who survives him. There were seven children of the first marriage, of whom three survive, Kathleen, Eugene, a sophomore at Holy Cross, and Walter, a senior at Maiden Catholic High School.

The funeral was held at St. Ann's church, Somerville, and Bill O'Leary represented the class at those services.

Class of 1905

HAROLD FRANCIS LANE died February 27, 1937, at his home in Washington, D. C., after an illness of several months following an attack of pleurisy.

Born in Ashburnham, Mass., November 2, 1882, his preparation for college was obtained in the schools of Chicago and St. Paul. He was a member of Chi Phi.

Immediately after graduation he entered the editorial department of the Railway Age in Chicago, and remained there for three years. He was then railroad editor of the Chicago Tribune until December, 1911, when he returned to the former paper, now the Railway Age andGazette, becoming its Washington editor in 1916. Learning of Mr. Lane's death, Joseph B. Eastman of the Interstate Commerce Commission made the following statement:

"Harold Lane was a man whom 1 heldin great esteem, and I am sure that this wastrue of all those connected with the Interstate Commerce Commission who cameinto contact with him. Modest, sincere,competent, and absolutely trustworthy, heunderstood the Commission and couldtranslate a Commission report into a readable, accurate story, not an easy thing todo. There have been times when I calledon him for advice. I never regretted it. Hewas in every way a credit to his profession."

In college Lane was a member of the varsity track team. In Washington he belonged to the White House Correspondents Association, the National Press Club, and the Indian Spring Golf Club.

June 10, 1911, he was married to Bess Lord of Chicago, who survives him, with a son, Richard Francis Lane of the New York Bell Telephone Co.

The funeral services held on March 1 were attended by several Dartmouth men residing in Washington.

Class of 1918

HAROLD KILLIP ROSS was drowned in Saratoga Lake, N. Y., February 7, 1937, when the car he was driving broke through the ice while he and a friend were returning from a fishing party.

He was born in Albany, N. Y., July 6, 1895, the son of George H. and Mary (Killip) Ross, and prepared for college at Albany High School. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta. He left college in May, 1917, to enlist in the U. S. Air Service. He served in France and Italy to May, 1919, being commissioned first lieutenant.

After his discharge he entered the employ of the Killip Laundering Company of Albany, of which his father was (and is) the president, and was at the time of his death secretary of the company. He had been president of the Dartmouth Association of Eastern New York, and was its secretary at the time of his death.

In October, 1926, he was married to Margaret Adele Williams of Hanover, who survives him, with a son, George Ross 2d, aged nine. Joseph K. Ross, 1922, is a brother.

THADDEUS ELY BAER died at his home in Elsmere, N. Y., February 10, 1937, of heart disease.

The son of John V. Baer, he was born in Peoria, 111., August 12, 1896, and prepared for college at Bradley Polytechnic Institute, Peoria. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. He left college in October, 1917, to join the U. S. Naval Reserve Force at Harvard Cadet School, but received his degree with the class. He served on the U. S. S. Nevada, being commissioned ensign.

After the war he was in the employ successively of the Atlas Portland Cement Company, Federal Trucks, Inc., and the Albany Garage. At the time of his death he was organizing his own business, the Albany Equipment Company.

In 1926 he was married to Dorothy Bigelow of Atlantic City, N. J., who survives him.

Class of 1890

DR. GEORGE AUSTIN CARTER died at his home at Hardwick, Vt., February 5, of influenza, after a short illness.

He was born in Wheelock, Vt., September 26, 1864, the son of Dr. Jackson A. and Mary Ann (Leavitt) Carter. His parents removed to Lebanon, Mo., while he was very young. Returning to Vermont around the age of 16, he attended Lyndon Institute and Barton Academy, and in 1886-7 took a special course at University of Vermont. He then began the study of medicine, and graduated in November, 1889.

He began practice at Calais, Vt., whence he removed to Hardwick in 1892, and had been since that time in continuous and successful practice there, having the varied experiences of a country doctor.

In 1886 he was married to Myrtie Luvia, daughter of John and Lydia Ann (Day) Paige, who survives him, with their two daughters, Mrs. Harry Foss of Hyde Park, Vt., and Mrs. John Cochrane of Lyndonville, Vt.

PAUL ELMER MORE, author and humanist, upon whom the College conferred the degree of Doctor of Letters in 1917, died March 9 at his home in Princeton, N. J., after a long illness.

The son of Enoch Anson and Katherine May (Elmer) More, he was born in St. Louis, Mo., December 12, 1864, and graduated from Washington University in that city in 1887. He studied at Harvard in 1892-5, receiving the degree of A.M in 1893 and being instructor in Sanscrit in 1894-5. He was then assistant professor of Sanscrit and classical literature at Bryn Mawr College in 1895-7. He then engaged in literary work, and was literary editor of the Independent from 1901 to 1903 and of the New York Evening Post from 1903 to 1909, and editor of The Nation from 1909 to 1914. In 1915 he joined the faculty of Princeton University, from which he retired as lecturer on Greek philosophy and the history of Christian thought in 1933.

He gained distinction as an author by the production of eleven volumes of "Shelburne Essays," written after he left Bryn Mawr. Later writings were a life of Benjamin Franklin, "The Religion of Plato, "Hellenistic Philosophies," "The Christ of the New Testament," "Christ the Word, "The Demon of the Absolute," "The Catholic Faith," and a great number of magazine articles.

In 1900 he was married to Henrietta Beck of St. Louis, who survives him, with two daughters.

Medical School

Honorary