WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY. 583 



abiding place until his death. In 1869 he was called to Harvard 

 University, and, had it not been for the prompt gift by Professor 

 Salisbury of the sum needed to endow fully his chair at Yale, he 

 would have felt bound, in justice to his family, to accept the similar 

 chair in the sister institution, now so ably filled by his pupil, Profes- 

 sor Lanmau. In 1856 he had been married to Elizabeth Wooster 

 Baldwin, the daughter of Roger Sherman Baldwin, once Governor of 

 and United States Senator from Connecticut. The union was a pecu- 

 liarly happy and helpful one, and the assistance he received from the 

 members of his family, as time went on, was an important agency in 

 enabling him to accomplish so much in so many different ways. Three 

 times he visited Europe, and once remained there fifteen months, 

 engaged in the preparation of his Sanscrit Grammar. In fact, all his 

 journeys abroad had as one of their principal objects the completion 

 or more successful prosecution of some work upon which he was at the 

 time employed. 



The pay of his professorship was at first very small, and hi the coL 

 lege year of 1856-57 he was appointed Instructor in German in the 

 Academic Department. His duties, however, were limited to the 

 third term and to the Junior Class. In the following year French 

 was added to the then narrow list of electives, and in that tongue also 

 he was called upon to impart instruction. This duty of teaching these 

 two languages in the Academic Department Whitney continued to dis- 

 charge until 1867. Then he turned over this work to the Professor 

 of Modern Languages, for instruction in which a special chair had been 

 created three yeai's before. After 1871, however, he gave an elective 

 in linguistics to the students of the classical course. 



It was while he was teaching French and German in the Academic 

 Department that I first came under his instruction, and made his per- 

 sonal acquaintance. Though then myself a mere boy, I could not fail 

 to be struck with the earnestness ancl thoroughness which he brought 

 to the performance of duties that most men of his grade would have 

 deemed the veriest drudgery ; with the breadth and accuracy of his 

 knowledge, and the lofty standard of scholarship he set before us all ; 

 but perhaps at that time more than with anything else, with the 

 patience which no indifference ever discouraged, no thoughtlessness 

 ever irritated, and no stupidity ever tired. All these feelings were 

 intensified when several years later I came to be his colleague and 

 personal friend. 



In 1861, while still an instructor in modern languasres in the Aca- 

 demic Department, he was called upon to perform the same duties in 



