Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-22
PRnF. IAmEs RADLEY.
Fron the Chattanooya Times.


PR0F. JAmEs EzADLEY.
From the Chattanooga Times
The news Of she deafh at bis house, on
Thursday, Nov. IA, Of } im Hsdley, Pro-
fessor Of Greek in Yale College, sss pain
fiIl Interest 10 every graduate Of that uni
versisy. Frof. Hadley Was one Of the insti-
tnti9ns q Yale Tire best Greek scholar
in America. aud one of the best in the
vsrit. ,Jsh0r Of q Greek grammar which
Is nos t.4e standard Ia most Ameriean col
Ieces, in which is inciuded an analysis of
TIE Greek verb, that in It's early form Of
"UadlaN's Priwer' was a terror TO the IN
susp4.liu- Fresh ran; 8 man learned in all
knowlotgs, familiar with almost all Ian
guages, YET modest and unsssUming as
child. 2ul tender IS q woman in his SYM
puhias. one whom to know was to love,
las b5ea taken away, and the loss to I ale
College and tie world Of letters can scarce
~ be esuD,ated.
As we write, we seem 10 see lin limp
brlskly to bis chan ia the Freshman reeite-
ton room, ia the old Athen@um building,
deposit dis hat before him, and the crutch
By his side. Then lis calm blue eye would
rove about the loom, auj 4 smile that was
child EEe and Gland ira dated his cOunte-
n5uca a lie he drew q slip Of card ffOm
liG.c laX before him, and examined il in
his near sighted way. Then the name
wsnld os called in his peculiar hesitating
manner s h;ch % one can forget who ever
heard:
oSmith -yOu-ID3y-Scan
Tn rises from his seat the victim, lOsiI g
the plsea M his confusion, aud scarcely re-
stored 10 his self possession by the kindly
promD'ing Of a neighbor. Amid the breath
less silence Of the rest Of the division, fresh
from heir homes and filed with a vague
awe ard admiration for ths grandeur CT
old Yale, the man before them seems more
than mortal, ~ las. Smith begins:
"T0n q Gp-"
"Ton-F apa-" blaadly Suggests tee
Professor.
Smith ENCOURAGED, proceeds:
Ton d Gpa meibOYm-"
1lore blsndly than ever, the Professor
c0rrects him
"HJeiJOme-"
Again Smith starts:
"ToR l. Gpa-mejbOne IlOSprOS-"
''1aos prose" says the Professor.
'nOs prose pbe po-'
sspb podcS'' egain suggests Prof Hadlsy.
e0lus7
..ol,us 4 70, >" the Professor correc.s him.
"ctilIcJS, says Smith t-iumphaEtly, CIV
ing the last foot Of tie line.
..That is-c0T-rrcG. That is suffi oient,"
smiles the Professor. "Tou may take
your seat" Smith sits down to dreams Of
The va'e5ictmy, excited by the euoourag-
ing tone Of Prof H2tley's "Thst is cor
rect" dreams, however, which are rudely
dispeled when The Prot. ssor detains him
Tor private interview after recitation.
II wss IL Junior year, when surnming
mp The merits Of the arguments advanced
in tie "fcrgIsic cispusations," mat rbe
students learned best TO know Professor
Hadlay, and to reverence his incisive way
Of brushing away Ill shSIns and holding up
the truth for their instruction. Here too
were shown that keen sense OF humor and
that Crg Wit, which mora than any other
thing except an abiding religious faith
enabled Professor H8tIey 10 endure ez-
crucia.ng bodily pain for nzny years with
cheeTflaess. This dry Wit il, indeed, a
Characteristic Of college Iuagu-tes, as Gra'z
B-gw. discovered q The last commence
melE g. Yale, when in Tep'y to his attack
u0Eu tls college, based upon MS experience
OF % wears ago, President Porter smilingly
e-z.s 5t thai Yale had grown too in u
ra-.s. as vel as c comm IN schools Of
ssauri, and shat "if Governor BrO,gn
hrd no other engagements nert MGTcb he
Usu.f he happy % place him on one of
:ea EE mining y 1ards, and LEI him judge
-.r h.-aself Of the progress made since his
-aa
-Ebeu Jggacea Posj7nte, Iabuatur dlni?"
The aim. mater hat we EueW exist only
s., sur dreams. when we visit it in the
,. ~, there are the CiLlz, aud the ivy, the
c-.v.s Of young me1 huTgiug 10 the
sounds Of the same tOp5y-turvey old bell;
lie nsrable bri K piles still stand, buJ
c5uwGed hari Oy The enormous modern,
puit5 ggs, before whose advance even the
HalIuz ed walls Of old South must soon 20
daTu, Sill Tire cid familiar faces that
made l. d home for Us ere lo5 there, and
We tel tbe saGiasl Of al loneliness, thai Of
q stg5uger amid the familiar scenes #
childhood. L&rlGd, whose prayers for
sib ss Th) have come nttaer Il search Of
usgf.. ka04led.a," have been ansW
- re han be knew, has gone. Slliman,
iletLsr. and Hsdity can greet Us 40 m0Te.
NFrhNgt these, not to speak Of the class
mates whom we do not meet, or who, #
sc.... ave uc5 'qhe boys" e thoss days,
ihs old College is no longer
% hJue. Tes IN cur Thoughts and dreams
j. wll. ever i've as it existed in the halcyOn
O. AS II the four years il which we learned
e. much, yet knew 50 little. Death ard
seDa- at,ou cannot affect the vision of The
ia yard eye, and long after the gray hairs
have fringsd our brOTs, as long as life shah
Lass, We shall see With the eye of memory
thu o7araTching elms, and the groups BE-
meath hem, the igg JlaJ we p3l-tod, AID
The b&I5iRss plain TO the sga. but rich in
ballcHed memories; we shall seem 10 hear
til. f-;liliSr voices CT tutors and Professors
and G. sssm2les; the old songs we never sing
nov VII ring u our ears. We may forget
lus ia tha, we learned, we may no longer
D. a Ls to define the ISIS Of the Sc, Oud
A3is ct give he equation OF the hyper00-
la, D.. these things ve can never forget,
upr caa,wG forge, bin whose death has
slg.g. a. tusse Thoughts, and 10 whose
Iit. lahore .ss honor e old Y ale is due
g.. much as 10 any Of the other intel
= ua. giants who nave composed her fac
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