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of scliool for a whole year, much of the time very sick," he reviewed 

 his Latin Grammar, and read Historia Sacra (140 sections), nine 

 books of the ^neid and all the Bucolics of Virgil, one book of 

 Livy, besides Irving's " Columbus," " Knickerbocker," and " a few 

 other books." The next year we find him reading Tacitus (one book), 

 Telemaque (five books), and most of Hedge's Logic. He began Greek 

 at the age of ten ; and before he was fifteen he had read all the Greek 

 in the Grteca Majora, with a large amount of Latin (including all of 

 Horace). At twelve we find him stixdying Whately's Rhetoric, Bonny- 

 castle's Algebra, and Legendre's Geometry (five books). In 1835 he 

 read all Hume's England ; and in 1836, all of the Iliad in Greek, besides 

 going through Stuart's Hebrew Grammar and Chrestomathy. Before 

 entering college, he had also studied Spanish, Italian, and German. It 

 is not wonderful, therefore, that when he entered Yale as Junior in 1840 

 (after one year at Hobart College), he took the foremost place in his 

 class. On graduating, in 1842, he remained a year in !New Haven as 

 resident graduate, engaged chiefly in mathematical studies. At tills 

 time he made several communications to the " Mathematical Miscel- 

 lany," published at Cambridge, Mass. During the next two years he 

 studied theology in New Haven. From 1845 until 1848 he was Tutor 

 in Yale College, and from 1848 until 1851 he was Assistant Professor 

 of Greek. In July, 1851, he was chosen to succeed President Woolsey 

 in the Professorship of Greek, which he held until his death in Novem- 

 ber, 1872. He became an Associate Fellow of this Academy in 1861. 

 Few scholars have been so fruitful as Professor Hadley in valuable 

 contributions to literary and scientific periodicals, and in papers read 

 before learned societies. His carefully written communications to the 

 American Oriental Society — of which he was President at the time 

 of his death, and one of the chief supports from its foundation — were 

 of great and lasting value. The same is true of his communications to 

 the more recent American Philological Association, in the success of 

 which he always took the most lively interest, as he had been one of the 

 most active among its founders. In fact, wherever the interests of 

 American scholarship were concerned, and especially wherever there 

 was an opportunity of making his own vast stores of learning and 

 experience available to the great body of less fortunate scholars. Pro- 

 fessor Hadley was always the foremost man and the most untiring 

 worker. The influence which he exerted in this way on the scholar- 

 ship of the whole country, elevating its tone by infusing into it his own 

 spirit, and anim,ating it by his own example, is no insignificant part of 

 the service which he has rendered to the cause of learning. In the 



