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Genrnc W. Oi iVoblo Won Widely Known 

 an a Prominent Kdncator and Head of 

 Prtvnte Scliool In lloatoii 



George W. C. Noblo, founder and prin- 

 cipal emeritus of the Noble and Green- 

 ough School in Boston, has died at his 

 homo, 21 Concord avenue, Cambridge as 

 the result of a stroke of paralysis 

 which he suffered last September. He 

 vcaB in his eighty-third year, and this, 

 the fifty-third year of the Back Bay 

 school which he founded, was the first 

 In which he had not been active in his 

 duties there. 



Mr. Noble was one of the best-known 

 educators in New England and many 

 noted New England men were prepared 

 for college at his school. He was the 

 sole surviving member of the board of 

 overseers of Harvard College which ap- 

 proved the selection of Dr. Charles W 

 Eliot as president of the university, in 

 1869. Mr. Noble prepared A. Lawrence 

 j Lowell, now president of Harvard, to 

 enter Harvard as a freshman, in 1873. 

 Frequently and almost up to the hour 

 [of Mr. Noble's death, President Lowell 

 ■ Visited the sick-bed of his old teacher. 



There, have been many other note- 

 worthy graduates of Noble's School,] 

 .which was opened in 1806 in Pemberion j 

 square. It was moved, in turn, to 40 I 

 ^Winter street, 3 71 Tremont street, and! 

 fl-ti 1889 to 44 West Cedar. In 1892 Mr. I 

 Noble took into partnership James Jay \ 

 Greenough, Harvard '82, who married | 

 Mr. Noble's daughter five years be- j 

 fore. The school was moved for the I 

 fourth time to 97 Beacon street where 

 it remained ten years, till its final : 

 change to its present place, at 100 Bea- 

 con street. 



George "Washington Copp Noble was 

 born in 'Somersworth, N. H., on Nov. 1,1 

 1836, of old Granite State stock the 

 son of Colonel Mark No'ble. During his 

 I boyhood, he was ambitious to enter West 

 Point, through (he influence of Presi- 

 dent Franklin Pierce, a close friend of 

 his father. The idea was dropped, how- 

 ever, and he went to Phillips-Kxeter 

 Academy, and from there entered the 

 Harvard class of '58, in the sophomore 

 year. In Harvard days he used to fence 

 and parry in Latin with Professor Lane, j 

 the father of the late Gardiner Martin 

 Lane. Mr. Noble through life was prob- 

 ably as familiar with Latin and Greek 

 as with the English tongue and, until 

 the end. delighted in making use of the 

 classical languages. In college he was 

 a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, the 

 Institute of 1770 and the Hasty Pudding 

 Society. 



On his graduation he obtained an 

 uahership in the Latin School, Boston, 

 which he retained until September, I860, 

 when he entered the Harvard Law 

 School. At the same time he accepted 

 a proctorship in Harvard College. A 

 change In his plans becoming necessary 

 In March, 1881, he was appointed a tutor 

 of Latir. at Harvard. Tn 1863 he received 

 the degree of A. M., from Harvard and 

 the following January was offered a pro- 

 fessorship in Latin in Washington Uni- 

 versity, St. Louis. Two years later he 

 moved back East and opened his private 

 classical scho6l In Pemberton square at 

 a spot now occupied by the Court 

 House. 



In 1808 Mr. Noble was elected an over- 

 seer of Harvard College, and In 1872 was 

 chosen for a term of six years. He 

 was one of the thirty-four original mem- 

 bers of the St. Botolph Club, founded in 

 1880. For many years he was a vestry- 

 man at Christ Church, Cambridge. 



In May, 1801, in New York, he mar- 

 ried Laura the daughter of Rev. Francis 

 Lister Hawks, D.D., who was rector of 

 Calvary Church. Mrs. Noble died five 

 years ago. He leaves three children: 

 Mrs. Katharine N. Greenough, widow 

 of his partner; Francis Lister Hawks 

 Noble of Kennebunkport, Me., and 

 George Noble, a member of the Boston 

 Globe staff. There are seven grand- 

 ^fl^rer, nr .d two ~r°!>t-£r-nr,nVhildren. 



