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countrymen. But much of this, as well as much of his show of 

 inditllrence to the ordinary calls of humanity, was a part of his 

 habitual cynicism, which was quite as much affected as real. While 

 he refused to take part in most of the ordinary charities, and seldom 

 or never let his name appear on a subscription paper, he was really in 

 his own way one of the most benevolent of men ; and it may be 

 doubted whether there was another man in our community whose 

 gifts bore so large a proportion to his personal expenses. j\Iany are 

 the poor who will miss his unostentatious benevolence now that he is 

 gone. 



Though he took little interest in any religious questions, he always 

 remained faithful in name to the Greek Church in which he was born. 

 In later years he renewed his relations with the monks of Mount 

 Sinai ; and as his strength failed, he wandered back more and more in 

 his thoughts to the Sacred Mountain. The monastery of St. Catherine 

 was enriched by more than one substantial present by his kindness, 

 and the pious monks offered solemn prayers on Mount Sinai daily for 

 his recovery from his last sickness, and sent him their congratulations 

 by Atlantic cable on his saint's day. Now that he has left us, we feel 

 that a bond is suddenly broken which connected us with a world 

 which lies beyond our horizon. Such a phenomenon as Sophocles is 

 indeed rare in our academic circles, and we feel that it was a privilege 

 to have him among us. 



'EpTTv^ois, )(Koepovs €Kirpo\ea>v TrXoKci/xovy. 



ASSOCIATE FELLOWS. 



STEPHEN ALEXANDER. 



Professor Stephen Alexander was born in Schenectady, 

 N. Y., on September 1, 1806, and died at his residence in Prince- 

 ton, N J., on Monday evening, June 25, 1883. 



His father, who was of Scotch extraction, an active and prominent 

 business man in Schenectady, died in 1809, at the early age of forty- 

 four, leaving his widow with two small children, one the subject of this 

 sketch, the other a sister, two years younger, who afterwards became 

 the wife of Professor Henry of the Smithsonian Institution. 



