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same spirit he performed all the duties of his professorship, sparing him- 

 self no lahor which would be of solid service to his pupils, and often 

 imposing upon himself duties in elementary instruction to which, we 

 suspect, few scholars of his attainments have ever condescended, — 

 work which, whatever may have been the cost in precious time to him- 

 self and to science, certainly bore substantial fruit in the future scholar 

 ship of his pupils. 



Professor Hadley was so thoroughly devoted to the welfire of his 

 college classes, and of the older pupils whom he instructed in the various 

 societies to which he belonged, that he found little time for book-making. 

 Those who were not within the sphere of his personal influence will 

 regret that he has not left more of his wealtli of learning in a form in 

 which it can be accessible to scholars generally. His principal book is 

 his " Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges," published in 1860, the 

 work by which he is most widely known. Although the Grammar pro- 

 fesses to be based on the German work of G. Curtius, it shows on every 

 page the scrupulous care and critical sagacity of Professor Hadley. He 

 was no mere translator ; but he made his own and reproduced in a 

 new — often in a greatly improved — form the material which he found 

 in the works of his predecessors. The publication of tliis work made 

 an era in the study of Greek Grammar in this country, and especially it 

 gave an impulse to the more scientific study of Greek Etymology which 

 is so important an element in modern classical scholarship. One of the 

 constant aims of Professor Hadley's scholarship was to exhibit the 

 phenomena of the Greek language in such a manner that they should 

 illustrate and confirm the great truths of the modern science of lan- 

 guage. This object has been attained in his Grammar with brilliant 

 success ; and it has perhaps never happened before that a scholar has 

 undertaken to write a Greek Grammar who has combined so thorough 

 a knowledge of Greek with so wide a knowledge of comparative phil- 

 ology as Professor Hadley. An abridgment of the Grammar was pub- 

 lished in 1869, prepared by the author. He also wrote the "Brief 

 History of the English Language," which forms a most valuable part 

 of the introduction to the latest edition of Webster's Dictionary (pub- 

 lished in 1864). A volume of selections from his Opuscula is announced 

 for publication in 1873 ; as is also a volume of lectures on Roman Law, 

 delivered first in 1868 in Yale College, and afterwards in 1871 as a 

 part of the University course of lectures in the Harvard Law School 

 at Cambridge. 



Professor Hadley was one of the very few scholars who have widened 

 their knowledge to a surprising extent without even incurring a suspi- 



