CHARLES FRANKLIN DUNBAR. 571 



ground, he would listen without response to those whose view 

 different from his own, refrain from stating his ohjections unless the 

 situation imperatively called for statement, and give bis auditor an 

 impression, and a true impression, of respectful and sympathetic interi 

 and yet in due time would follow the course which bis own judgment 

 dictated as wise. The quality of his mind was eminently judicial. He 

 saw all sides of a difficult question so clearly that he sympathized with 

 those who saw perhaps only one side. In the Advertiser office be dealt 

 with business men, statesmen, soldiers, conservatives, radicals, vision- 

 aries ; learned something from all, dealt courteously with all, gained tin- 

 respect of all, and yet never failed to maintain his own sound 

 independent judgment. 



The most active and strenuous years of Professor Dunbar's life, between 

 the ages of twenty-nine and thirty-nine, were given to the Advertiser. 

 In his hands its editorship was distinctly a public service: and, cool- 

 headed and sagacious as he was, uninfluenced by any vapid sentimental- 

 ism, he so regarded his vocation. But his strength, never very great, 

 was seriously shaken by these ten years of severe application, and in 

 1869, when the Advertiser changed bauds, Professor Dunbar was glad to 

 dispose of his interest and to retire from the paper. 



Shortly after, be was offered a professorship of political economy 

 in Harvard University. This was a career he had never looked for- 

 ward to, and he doubted bis own capacity for it. Nevertheless, ai 

 some hesitation, be accepted, on condition that be should have time for 

 restoring bis strength and adding to his equipment. After two years 

 spent in Europe in study and travel, he enured in 1*71 on the duties of 

 the professorship, to which be devoted himself for the rest of his li 



Although thus launched on the career of a scholar and teacher, his 

 abilities were such as to cause him to be enlisted soon in the worb of 

 guiding and managing the affairs of the University. On the retiremi 

 of the late Professor Gurney, in 1876, he became Dean of th< Faculty 

 of Harvard College, and retained thai post until 1882. When the 

 present Faculty of Arts and Sciences in Harvard University was organ- 

 ized in 1890, he became its first Dean, and bo acted until 1895. In 

 addition, he served frequently on commit and was in constant 



intercourse with the President of the University, who relied greatlj on 

 his advice. Repeatedly through bis academic career, be was called upon 

 to act as judge, as mediator and pacificator, at organizer of new pis 

 as administrator of new Bystems. All these duties were discharged with 

 remarkable judgment and succi they were fell b; him to be 



