He seems to me now, as I look back upon him, to have been as great a man at seventeen when he entered college, as he was when he died.

He was the best writer, the best speaker and the best mathematician, the most accomplished person in his knowledge of general literature in the class,--indeed, I suppose, in college,--in his day.
He was probably equalled, and I dare say more lately excelled, by Lane as a Latin scholar, and by Short as a Greek scholar.
He was a great favorite with the class.

He spent his life in the service of the College.

He was tutor for a short time and soon succeeded Channing as Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory.
He became one of the most eminent scholars in the country in early English literature and language.

He edited a collection of ballads, Little & Brown's edition of the British Poets, and was a thorough student of Shakespeare and Chaucer.