Norwich bulletin., 1915-08-03
HOW FRlENpsHP STARTED
 THAT LASTED ss YEARS. l.
Between Thomas Hart Fuller and The
 Late Professor Phillips Of Vale

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 Thomas Hart Fuller. Yale ,ss, prin- cfpal Of Natchaug school 1s66-72 ts . native of Lisbon. Conn. He taught ham, Conn He entered the govern- ment postal service about thirty years ago, with headquarters at Washing ton. travelinS all through the east. but in recent years his duties have kept him in Washington, where he now resides, with his brother Luther Fuller who also taught in early life at Birmingham. Mi Fuller was very popular with his Wfl1imantio pupils, and inspired Q number Of young men to go to college from Natchang. He enjoyed a lifelong friendship with the Yale, which began In an interesting way and had important sequels.
 Away back in the days just before the Civil war; "Andy" Phillips was a country boy In Grtswold. He had a wonderfully bright mind and was the early summer of 1861 a certain Yale junior, then half way through his course, and himself desiring to earn money to continue his studies ing end tackled up in the village post office a self-written notice that he would like to get scholars" to tutor for entrance to Yale college. hAndy" Phillips, then in his teens read that notice. and at once enrolled with the Thomas Hart Fuller. Yale 'ss. MT. Fuller tutored in yewet City the fol lowing summer also, with Phillips among his pupils. Concerning their acquaintance and friendship thus be- gun, and continuing tfnabated through
 "PhiIlips was to me more than a friend. He and I were in more or less frequent communication for about fifty-f1ve years. appreciated his geniality, his versatile talent and real genius when he was only a youth. He had a comprehensive mind for other things as well as the mathematics fol which he had wonderful aptness and which he made his speciality. I in- dulge a little pride in having taught one of his mathematical genius the differential and integral calculus but he used to work it out himseif. rarely had to help in 1t. I used tc hunt up difncult problems specially ts give him. He would solve anything within range of principles that he had had"
 A few years later, Phillips entered Yale, getting his degree at ShefielG Scientific school in 1873. Mir. Fuller was infiuencial in getting Phillips ( place as teacher of mathematics al Cheshire academy, and this was thu beginning Of a lifelong association o Mr. Phillips with that school, al teacher, trustee and counsellor. Latel while Phillips was at Cheshire, Mir Fuller was the means of introducing him to Hubert A. Newton, professol at Yale-the same Newton who wa even then famous among astronomer and afterwards won a worldwide fame in that field.
 Andy Phillips always held Thomai Hart Fuller in deepest gratitude al the teacher who had first inspired hin | to excel in the talents he possessed and who later brought him into toucl with Yale, and especially into a life | long association with Yale's great as tronomer. The association of Newton and Phillips-Newton the deep sudden
 of the mathematics so useful to as
 tronomers in their calculations-wai of large benefit to scientific research
 and is one of the dearest of Yal memories.