I do not think anybody in my day would have defaced the statue of John Harvard.
Whether Lane will go farther down on the path to immortality as the author of the admirable Latin Grammar to which he gave so much of his life or as author of the song, "The Lone Fish Ball," posterity alone will determine.
Charles Short, the third of the three whom I named as standing at the head of the class, became President of Kenyon College and afterward Professor of Latin in Columbia College.

He was one of the committee to prepare the revised version of the Scriptures, and contributed largely to the Harpers' excellent Latin Dictionary.
Another of our famous scholars was Fitzedward Hall, who died lately in England.

He was a very respectable scholar in the ordinary college studies, but he attained no special distinction in them as compared with the others whom I have mentioned.
He became, however, quite early, interested in Arabic and other Oriental languages, a study which he pursued, I think, without the help of an instructor.

He had a very remarkable career.

After graduating, he sailed for the East Indies with a view to pursue there the study of the Oriental languages and literature.