asking him a few questions, expressed his entire satisfaction. When the examination was finished he told him that he could take any position in the class which he might desire. Little did he think at that hour what a blessing had come to the college in this modest stranger, who knocked at her door at the sixth hour-how this youth should be stimulated and refreshed by his own example and scholarship, and take the torch of Greek and other learning from his own hand to transmit it newtrimmed and replenished to another generation; so that when he should die he himself should say of him "he was a great scholar, great for any part of the world." While in college, he pursued special studies in almost every term, in one term German, in another Spanish, in another the Calculus, in another Hebrew, but was foremost in his class, which graduated in 1842. He remained a year as resident graduate, devoting himself especially to mathematical studies. During this year his attention was drawn to certain difficult problems in the mathematical journal then conducted by Prof. Pierce, of Cambridge. These problems he solved with such ingenuity as to attract the attention of the distinguished Professor, who has repeated the remark more than once, that he could not forgive Yale College for making the man Professor of Greek who should have been the first mathematician of the country. The year following he entered the Theological Seminary, and remained two years, except that from September, 1844, to April, 1845, he acted as tutor in Middlebury College. In September, 1845, he became tutor in this college, and held that office till August, 1848, when he was appointed Assistant Professor of Greek. In July, 1851, when President Woolsey resigned the professorship of Greek, he was elected his successor, and was married the 13th of August. In 1864 he was called to a severe affliction in the death of his brother, Prof. Henry H. Hadley, a man of kindred genius, whom he greatly loved. In February, 1865, he was prostrated by an insidious disease which required release from all active service. In September, 1866, a surgical operation became necessary, which was followed by long continued debility. In January, 1868, he began his college work again, perfectly restored as he thought, but with somewhat lighter labors. Early in the last college year he suffered from a cold inducing a

partial relaxation of the vocal organs. Early in the present year he suffered from a similar attack, but he regarded it as temporary, and still insisted that his constitutional force and capacity for work were unabated. A few weeks since, a more active disease assailed him, to the repeated onsets of which he at last yielded, and on Thursday morning, November 14, he gently breathed away his life. These are the brief records of a most honored and useful career, in which has been matured and manifested a character of marked eminence and peculiarities. To some of these peculiarities I ask your attention.

As a scholar, Prof. Hadley was remarkable for the extent of his acquisitions. The enumeration of the many languages which he completely mastered, and the many others with which he was more or less familiar, is decisive of this. In the Greek and the Hebrew he was an adept. He was familiar with the Latin, and the principal modern languages, including the Swedish; with Arabic and Armenian; with several Celtic languages, as Welch, Gaelic and Irish; with the Sanskrit, and the different forms of the Gothic. Of late years he has given special and continuous attention to the sources and early forms of the English. It was no uncommon thing with him to devote a few weeks to the special study of the grammar and vocabulary of a language before unknown, and thus appropriate valuable material for his general studies in comparative philology. To most scholars the complete mastery of a single language is the work of many years and distinguishes the life. To it every other study is auxiliary at least, if not secondary. But for Professor Hadley to acquire a language was so easy, and the ends for which he studied language were so broad and comprehensive, that he seemed to be equally at home in many tongues, and to appropriate from many others all that was required for his purposes. In respect to every language which he commenced, he was inclined, however, not to stop with the amount of knowledge which would suffice for any immediate object, but to proceed to the mastery of whatever could be known. We hardly need add that in this extent of linguistic study he was uniformly exact. Indeed the exactness and thoroughness of his habits were incidental to the extent of his

studies, even when he studied for the ends of comparative criticism. While he discerned principles with singular sagacity, and made his generalizations with a broad comprehensiveness, he would not be content till he could enforce each principle with abundant illustrations, and justify and enliven his generalizations by an affluence of examples. Most philologists, even among the most eminent, incline either to excess in detail or generalization. To Prof. Hadley it was as natural to remember the particular example as it was to seize the principle which it illustrated. On the one hand, the principle in question was not overlooked by a microscopic attention to the minute; on the other hand, he was slow to accept the conclusions of another, however well accredited, until he had traveled over the entire process by which the original discoverer had reached them, and so to speak, had verified and discovered them for himself.

The variety of his knowledge was as remarkable as its extent. He was not only equally at home in several languages, each of a different family and type, which in itself is uncommon, but he was equally master of other branches of knowledge, some of them remote from language and philology. In the pure mathematics he had a special delight-being as a learner and teacher singularly rapid in his insight, clear in his discriminations and ingenious in invention. At an early period of his public life, as we have seen, it was almost a matter of question whether he was not as well fitted for this science as for philology. In the multitude of his linguistic studies, he never abated his interest in the mathematics, and never forgot any problem which he had mastered. He watched with close and interested attention the progress of mathematical physics, and kept himself familiar with the decisive movements which have marked the progress of each of the sciences of nature. In chronology and history he was singularly preeminent. This was not surprising in view of his prevailing tastes and activities. But there was occasion of surprise at the ever renewed evidence that he could retain so many facts so long after they had been specially attended to, or cared for. The events of common life, and the details of college experience, the names and characters of individual pupils, as well as the dates and circumstances of public transactions, were held fast, and as

it would seem never forgotten. The dates of ancient and modern chronology were indelibly traced upon his memory. The great epochs and events which make Ancient and Modern History memorable and instructive, were pictured vividly before his imagination. His earlier pupils had reason to wonder at the instructor who could hear long lessons in chronological history without a text book. To the history of the Roman law, he had been attracted first by its historic interest and relations, and subsequently by its systematic completeness, and logical symmetry. In this department he made such achievements as to prepare a course of lectures, which have never failed to command respect even from those to whom jurisprudence in its principles and details was the study of a life. So great was his pleasure in this study, that he remarked that he was more fond of jurisprudence than of anything else, and was better fitted for the law than for any other profession. We recall, in this connection, the circumstance that in his youth the boys of the village uniformily and unanimously submitted all their questions in dispute to his arbitration as final. In political science he felt a strong interest for similar reasons, and so far as a sense of his fitness was concerned, no hesitation would have been felt at any time in the last years of his life, in transferring him to the chair either of history or of political and social science. Of the American Oriental Society he was an acknowledged pillar from the first, and for the last two years has been its president. In the Philological Association the variety of his acquisitions, and the reach and sagacity of his reflections in diverse spheres, were most conspicuous. Whatever paper might be read, whether on the Semitic tongues, or any of the Indo-European languages, ancient or modern, whether on Anglo-Saxon, or the later English, whether the paper concerned matters of fact or attempted ambitious and fanciful speculation, whether the subject was known to have been familiar to him for years, or seemed remote from the range of his special studies; whenever Professor Hadley spoke, he spoke with authority, and was listened to with deference, because he spoke from certain knowledge and mature thought. It was interesting to observe how skillfully and kindly, how sharply and yet how gently, he could speak under

circumstances of unusual delicacy. Most aptly did the image from the old poet, whom he knew so well, of the gently falling snow, describe the quietness with which the words of authority dropped from his lips, and the hush of deference with which they were received. His written communications were carefully prepared. Many of them cost him the labor of months. They were uniformly novel in import, and in some sense important contributions to what was already accepted or known. They were as uniformly characterized by exhaustiveness of research, by elaborateness of thought, clearness of method, and compactness and simplicity of diction. Even the stranger to his person and to the subject of which he spoke or read, who happened to be present at one of the meetings of this Association, could not fail to be impressed with the conviction that he was a man of various knowledge. Had such a stranger gone from the public sessions by which he had been so impressed into any of the social gatherings which followed, and entered into familiar conversation with Prof. Hadley, he would have found that on most topics of general interest, he would seem equally at home, equally well-informed and clear sighted, whether the topic were the latest news of the season, or some great public movement of politics or finance; whether it concerned a matter of scientific research or of literary criticism.

Variety of knowledge does not always indicate breadth of mind. Not a few men have extensive, exact and various knowledge, who are narrow-minded men, inasmuch as their well-grounded positiveness within certain spheres seems to disqualify them from appreciating the facts or truths which lie beyond. Men of erudition and men of science are equally liable to this consequence of special studies, even when such studies cover a wide range. That Professor Hadley was in every sense a wide-minded man, is evident from his equally sagacious comprehension of scientific truth, and sympathetic appreciation of literary perfection and beauty. His mind responded as readily to the splendid achievements of Faraday as to the refined sentiment and the finished diction of Tennyson. His knowledge of English literature in its most recent phases and productions, including the best works of fiction, was exhaustive.

In critical judgment, exact memory and appreciative