VOLUME XVIII 7 Tcoicatory N THE summer of I9l2 the French government decided to decorate an American gentleman with the medal of a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France. The Legion is composed of men who have distin- guished themselves by their untiring efforts for the general good of human- ity, and the medal is the greatest honor that can be bestowed by the French republic. The distinction is even greater, however, when the honor is conferred on a person who is not a native of France, and therefore the city of Hartford and the Hartford Public High School are proud to claim as citizen and graduate, a man so eminent, nationally and internationally, as Dr. E.. M. Gallaudet. Dr. Gallaudet graduated from this school with the class of l85l. and from Trin- ity College in l856. It took three years' work to earn the money for his college course. but he believes that the labor for his education was the best investment he ever made. At the close of his college term he accepted a position as instructor in the School for the Deaf in this city, and taught for nearly two years. This school was founded by his father, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. He left the Hartford institution because of an invitation, in l857, from the Dis- trict of Columbia, to organize what was known as the Columbia Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind. When the graduates of this school grew in number he founded a college in Washington for the higher education of intelligent deaf mutes, which, since it was supported by Congress, became a national institution, and is still the only college of its kind in the world. Dr. Gallaudet acted as President and Professor of Moral and Political Science until he resigned in l9I0, leaving. as the result of his labors, the prosperous Columbia Institution, and Gallaudet College. Dr. Gallaudet has also been prominent in other lines, having read several papers before the American Social Science Association, and having published a Manual of Inter- national l..aw that has successfully run through five editions. ln l867 he was honored by the Columbian University with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and both Trinity College and Yale University have conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. As president of the American Convention of Teachers of the Deaf he delivered the opening address at the International Congress of Deaf Mutes in Paris in l9l2. Since his retirement to private life he has shown his deep interest in the high school in several ways, one of which has been the offering of a prize for an essay which may be also entered in a state contest. It gives us great pleasure to dedicate this volume to so worthy a graduate of the H. P. H. S.
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