Morning journal and courier., 1892-03-05

period of one hundred and seventy years, yet during that time there had been but 1 ten occupants of the presidential chair. President Porter was in thorough sympa- thy with the principles that had character ized the college from it's foundation. His election was guarantee that the college was to continue it's conservative attitude to all the educational questions which were attracting attention; that it was still to maintain it's character as bulwark of the Christian religion and of all sound learn ing.
 Daring the years in which President Porter was in office the college enjoyed un- precedented prosperity. Some of it's fin est buildings were erected in this period, including the art school, the Peabody museum, east and west divinity halls, Sloane physical laboratory, Battel chapel, and Durfes, ,Farnham and Lawrence dormi- tories. The curriculum was also greatly enlarged, especially by the introduction of new elective studies, although he has been an earnest champion of 8 required course as opposed to the elective system as it has recently been elaborated at Harvard. He has also ably maintained the claims of the classics to chief place in liberal course of education. As an instructor and in his personal relations to the students, he was one of the most popular presidents of Yale. He is probably the last to hold chair at the same time, for President Dwight expressly stipulated OH accepting the office that the duties of a teacher should not attach to it. Dr. Porter held the chair of Clark professor of metaphysics and moral philosophy from 1844 to the time of his death.
 He received the degree of D. D. from the University of the city of New York in 1858 and that of IL. D. from Edin- burgh in 1886 and also from Western Re- serve college, Ohio, in 1870 and from Trin- ity in 1871. He has contributed various volumes on wide range of subjects from time to time. Besides his magazine arti- cles and reviews he has produced many valuable books on philosophical and edu- cational subjects.
 His more important are 'The Human Intellect" 1868; Books and Reading" 1870; American Colleges and the Ameri- can Public," 1871; ''Sciences of Nature versus the Science of Man," a review of the philosophy of Herbert Spencer, 1871 "Science and Sentiment" 1882; "The Ele- ments of Moral Science, Theoretical and ley," 1886; ''Kant's Ethics," Critical Ex- position" 1886. He was also the principal editor of the revised editions of Noah Web | ster's Unabridged Dictionary of the Eng fish Language, 1864, 1879, 1884, 1s9O. Last evenings Meriden Republican says:
 "A great scholar and good man was call ed away this morning in the death of Noah 1 Porter, ex-president of Yale university. Yale and the country owe great deal to
 him, and it is a debt that will not be for 1 gotten."
 1 Last evenings Waterbury American says: 1 ''He was willing to widen and broaden,
 surrender the solid and substantial charac- teristics of the traditional Yale training fol I the showy and glittering sham of half
 digested, heterogeneous novelty of curri
 culum whose distinction was chiefly l i'll the prospectus of the cata
 logue. To Harvard's vulgar advertising l methods-so vulgar that, as Charles
 Dudley Warner wittily said, one would
 soon expect to see posted along the roads
 and on the fences, with 'Hostetter's Stom
 ach Bitters' and 'Coe's Dyspepsia Cure,
 "Send Your Son to Harvard"-Presiden
 Porter also opposed persistent negative
 The sober second thought of Yale's con
 stituency responded in the end t.
 Yale under him grew steadily il
 favor and standing, and was prepared t'
 take the place it now holds of uniting tn
 best in the old and the new, in response t
 the needs of a great transition period il
 educational methods. While no blare o
 trumpets proclaimed to the world tn
 achievements of his administration
 Yale did not lag in materia
 growth while Noah Porter was president
 In physique, slight as he was, he had th
 happiest combination, a sound body for
 sound mind. He was a tireless walker
 and, not many years ago, proved his prov
 ess by defeating much younger man in
 boat race on an Adirondack lake
 His face had the homeliness o
 strength. When he smiled it wa
 was one of the most attractive of faces, ,lik
 a vase whose beauty is brought out by
 light within. He had a vein of wit mos
 charming and genial. In presiding on 8!
 after-dinner occasion, such as an. alumn gathering, he was peculiarly happy in hi 7 introductions and comments. A grea deal is lost to life, not alone in scholarshi X and learning, in the death of Noah Porter He was an all-around man, in the best sens of that comprehensive word."