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T. D. P. Stone, and entered Harvard College in 1849. In college he 

 maintained a high standing, and at the close of his senior year was the 

 class-poet. After graduating, he was engaged as a teacher in various 

 places for ahout five years, for two of which he taught a private school 

 in his native town. In 1858 and 1859, he was one of the editors of 

 " The Century," a weekly literary journal published in New York. 

 On quitting this employment he sailed for Europe, and spent a year in 

 foreign travel and the study of the continental languages and litera- 

 ture. In 1861, he aided in the enlistment of a company for the na- 

 tional service in the great rebellion, engaging in the work with intense 

 zeal, and expending in it almost all that he possessed ; but was pre- 

 vented from active duty by an injury occasioned by lifting a heavy 

 weight in aid of a passing traveller, whose wagon was overturned near 

 his mother's house. The spinal lesion from which he then suffered 

 acutely made him an invalid for the rest of his life. At the Com- 

 mencement of 1861, he read before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Har- 

 vard College a patriotic poem, which won for him a very high reputation. 

 From 1862 to 1864 he was a teacher in Worcester. He then spent 

 another year in Europe. On his return, in 1865, he was chosen As- 

 sistant Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard College, and was 

 appointed to a full and permanent professorship in 1870. Shortly be- 

 fore this last appointment he was prostrated by a new attack of spinal 

 disease, in which he lingered for many weeks, not without hopeful 

 symptoms of convalescence, till his life was closed by a sudden illness 

 of an erysipelatous type, on the 27th of December, 1870, only a few 

 weeks after his election as Fellow of the Academy. 



Professor Cutler was endowed with native ability of a high order, 

 and at the same time was, through life, a systematically industrious 

 student and worker. While a good classical scholar, he was especially 

 versed in the French and German languages and literature, and was, 

 at the same time, familiar with the best writers in his own tongue. In- 

 deed, few men of his years have united to a greater degree than he 

 did special and general scholarship ; so that, while a master in his own 

 department, he was no sciolist in any branch of liberal culture. 



As a writer, he was characterized by clear thought, pure, chaste, and 

 transparent diction, and singleness and earnestness of purpose. The 

 little that he wrote leaves only room for regret that it should have been 

 so little. His poetry manifested a fertile fancy and no mean creative 

 power, joined with great rhythmical euphony ; and when he recited 



