840 CHARLES SEDGWICK MIXOT. 



His memory, more living now than any of his Hving words, must fade 

 as those who knew him pass. Yet his Hfe has done work which must 

 endure. Whether he attracted or repelled, he never left indifferent 

 those whom he influenced, and he influenced almost all who came 

 within his range. Among the scholars and teachers who have made 

 the study of the English language and of English Literature important 

 in American universities, he was second only to Professor Child, his 

 elder by half a generation. Child, like Lounsbury, may soon be little 

 more than a name, or the shadow of a name. But the spirit of them 

 lives and shall live so long as the language and the literature they 

 loved and taught are studied and taught and loved. 



Barrett Wendell. 



CHARLES SEDGWICK MINOT (1852-1914.) 



Fellow in Class II, Section 3, 1882. 



Charles Sedgwick Minot was born in Boston, December 23, 1852. 

 His parental home, five miles from Boston, and comprising about 

 thirty acres, stood on the edge of the forest area which then stretched 

 from' Forest Hills on the north to the Blue Hills and the Great Ponds 

 in Canton and Braintree on the south. The region even now, as seen 

 from the summit of Blue Hill, is largely a low forest, most of it of 

 second and third growth, with areas of cleared land in which are small 

 towns and villages, with farm lands about them. There are inter- 

 spersed fine villas inhabitated by wealthy Bostonians, and most of 

 the Forest is now included in the Metropolitan Park system and will 

 be preserved. There are extensive low marshy flats, subject to over- 

 flow, along the Neponset River, and included in the forest there are 

 large areas of swamp. Fine trees, elms, oaks, ash, beeches and pines 

 abound in the region, but the trees in the forest areas are generally 

 small. The flora and fauna are abundant and diversified. It is a 

 stimulating region even now to a boy who has the capacity to see 

 things and joy in seeing the wonder and beauty in nature. In Minot's 

 boyhood the region must have been much wilder and hence more 

 interesting than now. In such surroundings the boy grew up and early 

 accjuired the love of nature, the capacity of seeing, and the scientific 

 curiosity to find out the meaning of the things he saw, which dis- 

 tinguished the life of the man. 



