de, and father
confessor to hundreds of students and alumni whose interest lay in
literature and authorship.

In modern languages, the task dropped by Professor Fasquelle at his
death in 1862 was continued by Edward Payson Evans, '54, until 1870 and
then by George S. Morris until his acceptance of the Professorship of
Philosophy in 1879. Edwin Lorraine Walter, '68, was then elected to the
chair. In 1887 the Department was divided and Calvin Thomas, '74, became
Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, to be succeeded, after
his call to Columbia University in 1896, by George A. Hench, Lafayette,
'85, who lost his life three years later in an accident in the White
Mountains. Max Winkler, Harvard, '89, the present occupant of the chair,
eventually succeeded him. After Professor Walter lost his life on the
Bourgogne in 1898, the chair of French was filled by Arthur G. Canfield,
Williams, '78.

When the new chair in the Science and Art of Teaching was first
established in 1879, William H. Payne was appointed as the first
Professor. He was an experienced teacher in the secondary schools of the
State and contributed much to the eventual success of the new
department. After he resigned in 1887 to become Chancellor of the
University of Nashville, Burke Aaron Hinsdale, a graduate and for some
time President of Hiram College, Ohio, and an intimate associate of
President Garfield, was elected to succeed him. Under Professor
Hinsdale's strong and vigorous guidance, the department rapidly advanced
to a recognized place in the curriculum. Though his bearing was somewhat
austere and overwhelming, he could unbend, as was proved on one occasion
in the Library when his booming voice brought an admonition from an
official. Just then an influential member of the Library Committee
chanced to appear. He proved a greater disturber of the peace than
Professor Hinsdale, who, nudging his companion, slyly inquired, with the
suspicion of a grin, "Why don't you tell _him_ to keep quiet?" Professor
Hinsdale was distinguished by his prolific and scholarly writings and
left a monument in his "History of the University," which will long be
recognized as the standard for the period up to 1900. His death
occurred in that year, and the chair thus left vacant was occupied by
Allen S. Whitney, '85, whose title was changed in 1905 to Professor of
Education.

After the resignation of Professor Watson in 1879, the chair of
Astronomy was occupied by Ma