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quite another field, a man of remarkable capacities and accom- 

 plishments. He turned out to be one of the very rare instances of 

 ''exceptional men" not in plain sight. But the reason for his 

 obscurity was immediately evident and required only a sug- 

 gestion for its speedy elimination. 



It was not until ten years later, however, that Mr. Churchill 

 became directly connected with the Institution. In the mean- 

 time four volumes of publications from his pen had been issued 

 bj^ the Institution, when he was made an Associate with the 

 expectation that all his time and talents could be devoted to his 

 chosen field. He was well started in this when the world war 

 deflected his activities into governmental channels and possibly 

 sapped his vitality in a degree of overwork to which he had been 

 long accustomed to yield on the slightest solicitation. 



Mr. Churchill afforded a striking illustration of the maxim 

 often verified in the history of the Institution, "that the training 

 of a specialist must be broadly hberal in order that it may be 

 minutely special." Thus he was an uncommonly weU-read man 

 in science, history, and general literature as well as in philology. 

 His long experience as an editor gave him also a comprehensive 

 world view of men and affairs. Few men are so ready with knowl- 

 edge as he was and few more generous in placing it at the dis- 

 posal of others. When, for example, an attempt was made, in 

 1910, to arrive at a consensus of opinion concerning the ''human- 

 ities" by addressing a circular letter to about fifty experts in 

 that field, Mr. Churchill was one of this number. He not only 

 took the request seriously, but examined it at length, historical!}^, 

 statist icall}'-, and intrinsicallj^ as it affects the Institution. He 

 took the trouble laboriouslj^ to classify and to count up the 

 pagination of the works already published by the Institution, and 

 it appears but just to say that his contribution to this sym- 

 posium is at once the most objective and the most constructive of 

 a remarkable collection of voluntary testimony concerning a con- 

 troversial subject of unusual interest in the fields of scholarship. 



Harmon Northrop Morse was born at Cambridge, Vermont, 

 October 15, 1848, and died at his summer home on Great Cha- 

 beague Island, Casco Bay, Maine, August 8, 1920. He was a 

 graduate of Amherst College of the class of 1873, attained the 



