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SS _ -_ ——— Obituary. JOSEPH H. TOWNE, ’27. The Rey. Dr. Joseph H. Towne, ’27, died: July 31st at Andover, Mass. JAMES GILMORE, '34. Mr. James Gilmore, of the class of ’34, died at Innesbruck, Tyrol, Austria, last July. Mr. Gilmore was a native of Cincinnati and had been a banker for nearly half a century. During the lat- ter years of his life he travelled abroad a great deal. He was a man of re- markable intelligence and refinement, and was a linguist of rare ability. Three sons survive him. J. MAMMOND TRUMBULL, “hh Dr. James Hammond Trumbull, ’42, who held the degree of LL.D. from both Yale and Harvard, died at his home at Hartford early in August, in his seventy-sixth year. He was one of the best-known scholars in the country and a member of the National Acad- emy of Sciences, American Philologi- cal Society and many other societies for the advancement of knowledge. Since 1863 he had been librarian of the Watkinson Library of Reference, hav- ing selected its books. He was presi- dent for twenty-six years of the Con- necticut Historical Society, was secre- tary of Connecticut from 1861 to 1865, was executor of George Brinley and catalogued the famous Brinley Library and edited the history of Hartford County, published in 1886. Mrs. Trum- bull, a sister of Henry C. Robinson, survives him, and their daughter, Annie E. Trumbull, known in literature as “Annie Elliott.” Two brothers, Rev. Dr. Henry Clay Trumbull of Philadel- phia of the Sunday School Times, and Gordon Trumbull, the artist of Hart- ford, and a sister, Mrs. Annie Trum- bull Slosson of New York, are living. WILLIAM J. WEEKS, ’44. An obituary sketch of William J. — Weeks, who died Sept. 2, at his home in Yaphank, L. I., will be found in the next issue of the paper. DR. ROBERT HUBBARD, ’5I M.S. Dr: -Robert:: Hubbard, 51-7 MS.7 ror Bridgeport, Conn., while entering his office on the afternoon of July 4, slipped on the stairs and received such injuries to his head that death resulted a few hours later. Dr. Hubbard was a native of Cromwell, Conn. During the late war he was surgeon of the Sev- enteenth Connecticut Volunteers and was actively engaged at the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. He represented Bridgeport in the General Assembly of 1874 and 1876. He has lived in Bridgeport since the time of ‘his graduation. PROF, FREDERICK DEFOREST ALLEN, "790 HON. Classical Philology as well as Har- vard University has met with a heavy loss in the death of Professor Frederic DeForest Allen, who was stricken by paralysis on August 4, as he was riding on his bicycle from Cambridge toward the White Mountains. Yale claims Professor Allen as an adopted son, since she gave him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1879. He was born May 25, 1844,in Oberlin, Ohio, where his father served as profes- sor in the College for thirty years. Receiving the degree of A.B. from Oberlin in 1863, in the Spring of 1866, before he was twenty-two years old, he was made professor of Ancient Lan- guages in the University of East Ten- nessee, where he remained until 1873, with an absence of two years for study in Leipzig, where he received the de- gree of Ph.D. in 1870. During the academic year 1873-74 he was tutor of Greek at Harvard. the newly established University of Cincinnati as professor of Latin and Greek, but in 1879 was called to Yale as professor of Greek, and taught the class of 1882 in its Sophomore year. Just at that time Harvard determined to strengthen her Graduate Department in the field of Ancient Languages, and Professor Allen was called thither in 1880, with Professor Lanman for Sans- krit, and Professor Toy for Semitic languages. He was particularly fitted for the guidance of advanced students and has a In 1874 he went to - WALZ (AL UO Ives done more than any one else, perhaps, for the graduates in the Classical De- partment at Harvard. His revision of Hadley’s Greek Grammar has _famil- iarized his name even to school boys. His edition of Euripides’ Medea has been much used for a score of years. His Remnants of Early Latin has been used not only in this country but in the lecture room of German _ universi- ties. He prepared also an edition of the Prometheus of Aeschylus for the College series of Greek Authors. His other. published contributions to. the science of philology are important. He was a skilled musician and composed the music for the Harvard presentation of the Pharmio of Terence, a few years ago, as well as for two operettas which have been sung privately in several cities of our country. No other American was so high an authority as he on ancient music and metres. He was a student of language rather than of literature, but his colleagues valued highly his opinion on any matter of scholarship. For a score of years he has been recognized as the leading American scholar of his generation. Tuomas D. SEYMOUR. DR. MORISON T. HUTCHINSON, ’86 Ss. Dr. Morison Thomas Hutchinson, 86 S., died suddenly, September 11, at Crawford, N. H. The funeral was from his residence in Englewood, N. J. Dr. Hutchinson was graduated from the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, New York, and practiced a short time in engaged with his father in manufac- turing. CLAYTON H. BRIGHAM, ’88. Clayton H. Brigham, ’88, died very suddenly, at his home in Savannah, of heart disease, on Wednesday, July 28th. Mr. Brigham had not been well for some time, but was not thought to be in a critical condition, and the news of his death was therefore all the greater shock when it came. Mr. Brigham was born at Savannah, - July 5th, 1866. He was prepared for Yale at St. Paul’s School at Concord, and was graduated here in the Class of Fighty-eight. In College he was a generally well-liked man, while he had a large number of intimate friends, who became particularly attached to him on account of his sunny and cordial nature and his strong qualities as a friend. He was, among other things, a mem- ber of Sophomore, Junior and Senior Societies. After graduating he took a course in assaying in Columbia, and later went to California. .From there he returned to his home in Savannah. About a year ago he came North and took a seat in the Consolidated Stock Ex- change.of New York. This position he was obliged to give up before long owing to his ill health, which finally compelled him to return to his home. Mr. Brigham was 31 years and 6 months old at the time of his death. His brother, William S. Brigham, was graduated one year before him in college. THEODORE MOORE BARNES, JR., 97. On Wednesday, July 14, Theodore Moore Barnes, Jr., died at his summer home at Ridgefield, Conn., after a short illness of eleven days. Mr. Barnes was taken sick the day after his graduation, but it was not until two days later that the disease was diag- nosed as typhoid fever. In spite of every effort, he grew worse rapidly. He was unconscious for a week before the end. The interment was in Trinity Cemetery, 155th street and Hudson river. Born in New York on December 13, 1874, he was prepared for Yale at the Berkeley School in that city, entering college at the age of eighteen. While at Yale he wrote for both the News and Record, being one of the first of his class to be elected an editor of the latter publication. He was a member of the Kappa Psi and Alpha Delta Phi societies, and of the ’97 Sophomore German Committee and was popular in his own Class and the University at large. It had been his intention to enter upon the study of law in New York this Fall, and everything seemed to point to an excellent future for him. His untimely death in the twenty-sec- ond year of his age deprives the Class of one of its brightest and most lovable men. New icYork...He later WAV ete FA ae FTER more than two years of steady labor the Library of the World’s Best Literature, under the editorial direction of Charles Dudley Warner, is nearly fin- ished. About two-thirds of the volumes are now ready, and the entire work will be completed not later than January — possibly earlier. Its completion will bea distinct literary event. The special intro- ductory price under the arrangement made by Harper’s Weekly Club will positively be advanced October Ist. do well to make note of this fact, since by joining the Club now they will obtain the work at nearly one-half the price at which it will hereafter be sold. 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