906 BENNETT HUBBARD NASH. 



BENNETT HUBBARD NASH (1834-1906) 



Fellow in Class III, Section 2, 1876. 



Bennett Hubbard Nash was born at Bloomingdale, now a part of 

 New York City, July 6, 1834, the son of Joshua and Pauline (Tucker) 

 Nash, and died at Little Boar's Head, New Hampshire, July 20, 1906. 

 His early education was received in Europe. It is perhaps an indica- 

 tion of the seriousness of his character even in boyhood that he joined 

 the Waldensian Church at the age of fourteen in Turin. A younger 

 brother was born at Florence, Italy, in 1836, and both brothers were 

 members of the class of 1856 in Harvard College, and both attained 

 high rank, being among the first ten scholars of that class at graduation, 

 and, while neither seems at that time to have contemplated adopting 

 the profession of teaching, both later became college professors. 

 Bennett entered Andover Theological Seminary in 1856 and was 

 graduated in 1860. In the spring of that year he had been licensed to 

 preach, and in the next few years he did occasionally preach in Boston 

 and elsewhere. In 1866 he was appointed instructor in Italian and 

 Spanish in Harvard College, and he became assistant professor in 1871 

 and professor in 1881, a position which he held till the summer of 1894, 

 when his resignation, presented in December, 1893, took effect. 



During the long period, broken by severe illness in the academic 

 year 1872-73, which was covered by his college teaching his work was 

 untiringly faithful and conscientious, and it is easy to understand 

 that he carried the same faithfulness to duty in all details into every- 

 thing that he undertook, particularly in his later years his manage- 

 ment of the financial affairs of family connections. He was interested 

 not only in languages and in literature, but also in music and other 

 things, as is indicated by noticing the various organizations of which 

 he was a member. Besides being a Fellow of this Academy he was 

 connected with associations, clubs, and benevolent societies, including 

 the American Philological Association, the Modern Language Asso- 

 ciation of America, the Dante Society, the American Dialect Society, 

 the Bostonian Society, the Harvard Musical Association, the Apollo 

 Club of Boston, the St. Botolph Club, the Colonial Club of Cambridge, 

 the University Club of Boston. 



He was married Feb. 19, 1861, in Boston to Mary Pratt Cooke 

 (daughter of Josiah Parsons Cooke). 



E. S. Sheldon. 



