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his death one of the lecture halls of the Sorbonne has been renamed 

 after him "Hall Barrett Wendell." "The Traditions of European 

 Literature," only one volume of which he completed, was a labor of 

 love, the fruition of years of discerning scholarship. The period from 

 Homer to Dante was covered by the first volume and the second would 

 have brought the survey down to modern times. 



During his sabbatical vacations Wendell visited Europe at various 

 times. In 1902-3 he represented Harvard University at the 300th 

 anniversary of the Bodleian Librar}^ at Oxford, and was Clark lecturer 

 at Trinity College, Cambridge, England. In 1904-5 he was the first 

 of the annual lecturers on the Hyde foundation at the Sorbonne and 

 other French uniA-ersities. In 1911 he went around the world, travel- 

 ing in India, China and Japan. 



Wendell was a member of the American Academy of Arts and 

 Letters, of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and a Fellow of the 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received from Columbia 

 University in 1913 the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (Litt. D.) ; 

 Harvard University conferred upon him the same degree in 1918, and 

 Strassburg University, France, that of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) in 

 1920. 



Wendell was a man of pronounced individuality, warm in his 

 sympathies, singularly loyal in his attachments, and free from little- 

 ness. He never concealed his convictions, which were often critical 

 of modern tendencies and points of view. If he seemed to champion 

 the past at the expense of the present, it was because of his insistence 

 on standards and his veneration for the summits not the table lands 

 of tradition. His conversation had the charm of freedom from the 

 commonplace. 



Wendell was married on June 1, 1880, to Edith Greenough of 

 Quincj, who, with two sons and two daughters, survive him. 



Robert Grant. 

 ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1832-1918). 



Fellow in Class III, Section 2, 1868. 



' Andrew Dickson White was born in Homer, November 7, 1832, and 

 died in Ithaca, only twenty-five miles from his birth-place, on Novem- 

 ber 4, 1918. As a student at Hobart College and later at Yale, he 



