932 JOHN HENRY WRIGHT. 



These brief biographical details reflect but little of the eminent 

 personal qualities which Professor Wright possessed, but they indicate 

 the wide variety and extent of his training and experience, and explain 

 the beneficent influence which he exerted on so many of the younger 

 scholars of this country. The traits that immediately impressed a 

 student on his first meeting with him were his generosity, sympathy, 

 and learning. His kindness was unfailing, his courtesy never shaken. 

 Possessing a keen sense of humor, he was merciful to the blunderer, 

 ready to overlook the crudeness and awkwardness of the tyro, but 

 equally firm in correcting the puerile and in rebuking the insincere. 



His own scholarship was fertile, whether expressed in his writings 

 or in the work which he inspired in others. Broad in its range, it was 

 deep in its thoroughness. Versed as he was in the technical minutiae 

 of those branches of classical philology in which he was a specialist, 

 he had the gift of imparting human interest and a literary quality to 

 his exposition of scientific subjects. As a writer his style had charm, 

 so that the study of a problem in Greek epigraphy, for example, became 

 in his hands not only a work of scholarly importance, but also a matter 

 of interest to a reader not trained in technicalities. He had a rare 

 insight into the beauties of English, and his taste guided him surely 

 in the interpretation of the subtleties and graces of Greek style. His 

 sense of form expressed itself also in his love of Greek art, and he found 

 congenial labor in the editorship of the Journal of Archaeology. 

 Through his edition of Collignon's Manual and the courses which he 

 offered in the University on the subject he became the pioneer in the 

 teaching of classical archaeology in this country. 



Charles Burton Gulick. 



