To the elucidation of the text of Chaucer he made some admirable contributions.

He was shy and diffident, full of kindness toward persons whom he knew and to children, and of sympathy with persons who were in sorrow, but whimsical, grotesque, and apt to take strong prejudices against persons whom he did not know.

I suppose some of the best of our American men of letters of late years would have submitted their productions to the criticism of Child as to a master.
Next to him stood Lane, the learned Latin scholar.

I do not believe that anybody ever went through Harvard College who performed four years of such constant and strenuous labor.
What he did in his vacations I do not know, but there was no minute lost in the term time.

It is said that he never missed attendance on morning and evening prayers but once.
The class were determined that Lane should not go through college without missing prayers once.