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Theological Seminary, Dr. Green, who sits at ray right, has no 

 superior as an Oriental scholar in this or any other country ; 

 and near him I see my old College friend, Mr. Ingham, 

 whose graduation speech was delivered in Latin — the honor 

 then awarded by the Faculty to the first scholar of the 

 class — and although he would not, I am sure, allow me to 

 name him among the specialists in the study of languages, 

 I know that by his philological studies at home and 

 abroad during the intervals of a business life, he has proved 

 himself worthy of the spurs he earned at Princeton College 

 thirty years ago. I see also President Chase, whose schol- 

 arly editions of the Latin and Greek classics are in the 

 hands of all our College Professors; and Mr. Phillips, the 

 cultured scholar, whose good work, both as a Philologist 

 and Antiquarian, is recognized abroad as well as in Amer- 

 ica; and Dr. Brinton, eminent as an authority in the 

 aboriginal languages of our country, and whose learned 

 contributions to our knowledge of the Indians have really 

 done much to redeem the American people from the dis- 

 honor of having broken all the treaties we have ever made 

 with them ; and I see at the farther end of the room, the 

 genial and still youthful face of that veteran Philologist, Dr. 

 llaldeman, the mention of whose honored name brings me 

 back to the spelling reform, for it was this eminent scholar 

 who carried off, over a host of learned and distinguished 

 competitors, the prize offered by Sir William Trevelyan in 

 1857, "for the best essay upon a reform in the spelling of 

 English." As often as I turn to the pages of this The- 

 saurus of philological learning and remember that it was 

 written in Dr. Haldeman's " pre-scientific babyhood," 

 quoad philologiam I am reminded of Hercules, who while 

 yet in his cradle displayed such marvelous strength in 



