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Congregational minister he never had a pastoral charge. From 1835 

 to 1837^116 was Principal of the Abbot Academy at Andover ; from 

 1837 to 1863, Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Dartmouth Col- 

 lege ; from 18G3 to 1867, Professor of Intellectual Philosophy and 

 Political Economy in Dartmouth College; from 1867 to 1881, Presi- 

 dent of Hamilton College, at Clinton, New York. He resigned his 

 presidency on account of declining health, and took up his residence at 

 Utica, New York, where he died on the 4th of November, 1885. His 

 principal literary work was " The Life of Rufus Choate." He deliv- 

 ered in Boston courses of Lowell Lectures on " The Earlier English 

 Literature," and on " British Orators." 



President Brown was a man of exquisite literary taste, master of a 

 singularly chaste and pure English style, an able preacher, a thorough 

 student, an accomplished scholar. As a teacher, he never failed to win 

 the sincerest respect, gratitude, and affection of his pupils, and in Dart- 

 mouth College especially there is no memory of the present century 

 more dearly cherished than his. He was a modest man, and was sel- 

 dom seen except at his posts of duty and of public service ; but to those 

 who enjoyed his intimacy he seemed unsurpassed in the virtues and 

 graces that command equal honor, reverence, and love. 



FOREIGN HONORARY MEMBERS. 



MATTHEW ARNOLD. 



Among the eminent men of letters whose names have been borne on 

 the roll of Foreign Honorary Members of the Academy during the past 

 generation, not one has clone more to affect the course of the deeper cur- 

 rents of thought in his time than Matthew Arnold. The writings of 

 some others have, indeed, been more popular than his, and more widely 

 read. But he has specially addressed the minds capable of receiving and 

 of propagating the highest influences. No other English writer has at- 

 tained such distinction in prose and in poetry alike, or displayed such 

 equality of power as poet and as critic. Alike in poetry and in prose 

 his aim has been " the moral interpretation, from an independent point 

 of view, of man and of the world." In fidelity to this aim is the unity 

 of his work as poet and as critic ; for such interpretation is the great 

 business of both. 



