JACKSON, ABNER. 



JANIN, JULES G. 



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bore of the Italian Committee of Evangelizut \< >n 

 t\r the coming year. It was decided that the 

 nmimitti , it-, 'If should henceforth have the 

 p.. \\ci- of nominating foreign members, the 

 niimher of whom, however, should not exceed 

 that of the- committee, or seven. Four young 

 men had been studying during the year with 

 i!e Miclu-lis, ;tt 1'isn. One of them, Prof. 



I'i.-tro Manani, who had been fonu.-rlya priest, 

 and spiritual director of a deaf and dumb auy- 

 liiin in the north of Italy, was a<-t-<-j.tnl by the 

 Assembly, and given formal recognition OH an 



Dr. Luther II. Gulick has published the fol- 

 lowing statistics of Protestant churches and 

 missionary operations in Italy : 



JACKSON, Rev. ABNEB, D. D., LL. D., a 



Protestant Episcopal clergyman, scholar, and 

 college president, born in Washington County, 

 Pa., November 4, 1811 ; died in Hartford, 

 Conn., April 19, 1874. Of his early history 

 we have no knowledge, but he entered Trinity 

 College, Hartford, in 1833, aud graduated 

 thence with the highest honors in 1837, and 

 was immediately appointed tutor. In 1838 he 

 was elected Professor of Ancient Languages; 

 in 1840 was transferred to the chair of Ethics 

 and Metaphysics, for which he proved to be 

 admirably qualified and which he retained 

 eighteen years, adding to his other duties a 

 course of lectures on chemistry. In 1858 he 

 was elected President of Hobart College, Gene- 

 va, N. Y., and discharged the duties of that 

 office for nine years, taking charge also of a 

 select-school, which was a feeder of the col- 

 lege. In 1867 he was recalled to Trinity by 

 his election as its president. His wide and 

 generous culture both in literature and science, 

 his lofty ideal of the higher Christian educa- 

 tion, and his genial, courteous, and manly 

 character, made him universally popular, while 

 his rare executive ability eminently fitted him 

 for the very difficult position of a college presi- 

 dent. In the new field of usefulness upon 



which Trinity College was just entering (hav- 

 ing sold its college-site to the city on such 

 terms as gave it an ample endowment, and 

 having selected a new and admirable location 

 where it could enjoy all the advantages of both 

 city and country, with the means of making 

 its instructions as thorough and complete as 

 those of any college in the United States), it 

 could not have had a wiser and more judicious 

 counselor or manager than President Jackson. 

 He had visited Europe in 1873 to study the 

 best forms of collegiate architecture, and had 

 devoted much thought and care to the prepara- 

 tion for such changes as would increase in 

 every way its efficiency and capacity for en- 

 larged usefulness. Though an able writer and 

 an elegant speaker, Dr. Jackson had published 

 very little. His whole life had been so busy 

 with the acquisition and the imparting of 

 knowledge, that he had found little leisure for 

 general literary labor. A few baccalaureate 

 and other occasional addresses, sermons, and 

 essays, and a considerable number of brilliant 

 review articles, are all that remain to testify 

 to his abilities. 



JANIN, JULES GABRIEL, a distinguished 

 French critic, novelist, and man of letters; 

 born at St.-Etienne (Loire), December 24, 1804 ; 



