The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-12
EEoTURE BY PROF. WINCHEsTEE'
Ske'ch of n Distinguished Wesleyan Man
 --President Harper's Offer.

LEH1 C KE III I'kOf. HLNth EnHLR Ske'Ch of q Distinguished Wesleyan Man
 --Pres'dent Harpers offer,
 It will be remembered that the first lecture under thY auspices of the New Haven Chautauqua union was deliver ed a few weeks ago by Dr, F, W, Scrip tare of Yale university on the subject, Experimental Psychology"
 The second lecture of the Chautau- qua union will be given December 13 in the First Methodist church by c. T, Winchester, professor of English litera. ture at Wesleyan university, Middle town, Conn; subject of lecture, "Lud- low Castle
 There has been an intimatlon that Professor Winchester may succeed to the Billings profeGsorship at Yale, and so the following account of his career will be interesting to many:
 Professor Winchester was born in Connecticut, but spent most of his early life in Massachusetts, where his father, retired Methodist minister, had farm.
 He prepared for college at the Mid- dleborough (Mass.) academy and at Wilbraham, entering Wesleyan in the class of 1862
 After graduation he was librarian at Wesleyan for ten years or more, and taught some during that time. It is said that from 1869 to 1880 every book added to the library was catalogued | and shelved by him.
 In 1873 he became professor of Eng lish literature and rhetoric, and also taught logic until 1SSO
 He was one of the first teachers of English in New England to introduce the reading of literature itself in it's 1 best specimens rather than by text book l recitations.
 | In 1SS0-81 he went abroad, spent one | sermester in tha University of Leipzig, | travelled in Germany, Switzerland, Ita- | ly, and especially in England, In the last country he visited almost | all the places of literary interest, and one can learn from his lectures that | he made good use of his powers of ob | servation. | The summers of 1887 and 1894 he also | spent in Europe. He is the author of Short Courses of Reading" and editor 1 of "Selections from Addison" for the | Chautauqua Garnet Seal course. He is also we'll known contributor to pa- per5 and magazines.
 He is regarded as one of the most valuable men on the faculty at Wes- l leyan and it is an open secret that 1 President Harper of Chicago univer- 1 sity tempted him with the golden bait l to take the chair of English literature in the university there, but that the | invitation was declined. His eours as are very popular at Wesleyan, as is shown by the large numbers of stu dents who elect them. It is a favorite maxim there that no man should | graduate without taking his courses in the introduction to English liter- l aturs and literary criticism. He seems to broaden the students con ception of literature and to stimulate
 their interest as few professors succeed
 in doing.
 For the past dozen years he! has lec- l tured extensively. He has delivered l several courses of lectures at Johns | Hopkins university, and has also lee tured at Brown, Amherst, Northwest
 ern, Wellesley. Smith, and at many l other places. He is an annual lecturer | at Wells college, Aurora. N. Y. More over, as a speaker before purely popu-
 lar audiences he is widely known. The lecture to be given on Friday evening
 is one of his best, although the nigl
 standard of excellence of all of Profes
 sor Winchester's lectures makes com
 parison difficult.
 The choice use of words and flow o1
 language. the arrangement of thought
 and bhe vividness and picturesqueness
 of expression, conbinia' to impress the
 Ludlow Castle" firmly upon ones
 mind.