The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-13
- - TRIBUTE TO
 GREEK SCHOLAR 
 cohn w, White Pronounces a
 Glowing Eulogy at Memo :, rial Services for Pro-
 si lessor Seymour. NOTED TEACHERS HERE Anecdotes of Life of Great Professor
 Members of Class in Homer Act as Ushers at Battell Chapel B \ Exercises Yesterday.
NOTED TEACHERS HERR

Scholars from all over the east gathered yesterday afternoon with the students and townspeople in Battell chapel for the services in honor of the life and work of Prof. Thomas Day Seymour, for many years Hillhouse professor of Greek in Yale. AS one of his closest friends said, the day chosen was particularly fitting, for what Lincoln did for the negro race Prof. Seymour did for education. Just as Lincoln was fundamental in abol- ish human slavery. so Thomas Day Seymour was instrumental in freeing scholars and students from the slav- ishness of the old routine of learning.
 The faculty and a number of the guests formed line at Alumni hall a little before the time set for the ser vice. Recitations in the college had been suspended for the afternoon, to | enable teachers and students alike to attend. Prof. Jepson began the organ prelude about 3 o'clock and the full college choir made up of 100 students : rendered an anthem.
 Prof. Tracy Peck and Secretary Anson Phelps Stokes officiated. Sec retary Stokes read appropriate pass , ages from the Bible and then offered a beautiful prayer The anthem, by St. Gregory, with music by c. w. Chadwick, exactly suited the occasion.
 The memorial address was delivered by John Williams White, professor of Greek at Harvard university He was presented by Prof. Peck. who spoke of the friendship between Prof. Seymour and Prof. White as one of the strong est bonds that united Yale and Har- yard.
 The address was glowing tribute to Prof Seymour and his work. Prof. White told about his ancestry, his early life his college career, his work as a teacher and as pioneer in the field of the new education. While Prof. Seymour was student at Vest ern Reserve college in Hudson. O., said Prof. White. he contributed to several literary magazines and was a member of the glee club. Although he had a high stand in the study of Herodotus and Xenophone, he did not care for them, but when he came to the study of Homer. he outshone everyone; he had come into his own. When he went to Germany to study he refused to take a Ph. D. degree though it was a very uncommon thing for a man to hold that degree in America His reason was that he did not want to waste the time studying subjects he did not care anything about. It was strong stand to take and showed the man
 Professor White gave a realistic pic. ture. of Professor Seymour when he told of a graduate class he had one year. The hours of the class were from 10 o'clock until midnight. Finally the graduates succumbed fo the strain ant the hour was changed to o'clock Then, Professor White said, he would cheerily bid his students good night al 10 o'clock, and would apply himself enthusiastically to his own research work <.
 Professor White was extremely hap. py in his selection of one of the mos' interesting events in Professor Sey. inour's life. He told of converse tior they had had together up at Cam. bridge Professor White said it wa, remarkable what a knowledge he hat of Plato, when his name was brought up. Taking up Plato's Apology" ht turned to the passage where Socrates man of seventy years, learns that h, must undergo the sentence of deatl and tells in dramatic sentences how glad he shall be when he reaches tn, other world.
 Professor White spoke of Professor Seymour's whole-hearted work fo Yale ever since he was called here fl the seventies and his greater work fo the cause of education. He said Pro lessor Seymour never spent an idl was the greatest Homeric scholar, Am erica has produced" This was Profes sor Whites tribute to one of Yale greatest scholars.
 At the services the members of Pro lessor Seymour's class in advance, Greek acted as ushers: W. & Brooks Frank L. Johnson, T. W. Williams, E F. Jefferson. charles Campbell. Will Ham w. Borden, H T. F. Husted, W. Ryder, J. A. Parsons, & c. Rand ". P. Roberts, Daniel Selzer, F. ] scribner, H. B. Slider, A. W. Ruff, K