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and sculpture : and his keen esthetic taste, united with a ready appre- 

 hension of esthetic truth and a lively imagination, have produced a large 

 mass of exquisite poetic composition, never published, or but partially 

 published. He became, a1 Ann Arbor, a patron and an influential pro- 

 moter of the musical interests of the city and of the university, having 

 served for several years prior to his death as president of the University 

 Musical Society. He had a quickness of perception of physical form, 

 and a deftness in mechanical construction. These resulted in some 

 modeling in plasterof Paris, as well as in many hand-sketches and draw- 

 ings. To his college training in Latin and Greek, he added Hebrew, 

 German and French; and later, along with Spanish, he also acquired a 

 sufficient knowledge of the Scandinavian to enable him to read the 

 scientific works in which he was concerned in these languages. 



The fortunes of his birth not having afforded him the means and 

 opportunity to devote himself at once and uninterruptedly to any 

 chosen line of professional labor, he resorted to teaching as a double 

 means of financial revenue and of personal improvement. In this he 

 was rapidly promoted ; but this rapid promotion was due more to his 

 scholarship and his success as a leader of his best pupils than to any 

 personal magnetism or sympathy which he inspired in his classes as a 

 whole. He had no care for laggards, and only a passing regard for the 

 indifferent or mediocre; but for the student who manifested a special 

 earnestness, or exhibited more than a casual interest in natural science, 

 he was ready to spend any amount of extra time and to render unsel- 

 fishly any service that might be required. He passed rapidly through 

 the lower grades of the teacher's profession to that of a full professor in 

 tin' department of science which he had chosen. The teaching pro- 

 fession brought him frequently upon the lecture platform, and his 

 earnest interest in the educational and social issues of the day, as 

 brought out in the leading periodicals, prompted him to participate in 

 the discussion of them. As his contributions on the issues of scientific 

 instruction and scriptural interpretation always bore the impress of 

 Christian faith and of scientific as well as philosophical acumen, he 

 was marked as a defender of the Christian church against assaults 

 which scientific men had made upon it. These qualifications, admired 

 by the scientist no less than by the Christian educator, recommended 

 him for still higher promotion, and he was elected and inaugurated as 

 chancellor of Syracuse university, at Syracuse. New York. 



He soon discovered, however, that the financial and other vexatious 

 details of university administration absorbed all his energies, and as 

 there was no likelihood of relief, he, contrary to his expectation when 

 he accepted the position, promptly resigned and accepted again a pro- 



