Princeton University - Bric A Brac Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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WM. HENRY GREEN, D.D., LL.D

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'william lbenttg Green, 23.161, 11.23. REV. WILLIAM HENRYHGREEN, D.D., LL. D., Professor of Oriental and Old Testament Literature in Princeton Theo- logical Seminary and Trustee of.. the University, died at his home in Princeton February 10, 1900. For several years past Dr. Green had been 'in ill healthgand had been relieved of most of his active duties in connection with the Seminary. Death came unexpectedly and quietly. Dr. Green was born at Groveton, New Jersey, on the 27th of January, 1825. When only nfteen years of age he was graduated from Lafayette, where he remained for the three following years as tutor and assistant professor in mathematics. In 1846 he was graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary and tive years later he returned to till the chair of Oriental and Biblical Literature, having held several important pastoral charges in the meantime. ln 1859 the title of his Professorship was changed to that of Professorship of Oriental and Old Testament Literature and this position he filled until the time of his death. Upon the retirement of Dr. Maclean from the Presidency of Princeton College, Dr. Green was elected to be his successor but declined the position. Not only an educator of note he was widely celebrated as an author of religious works. He was also Chairman of the American Committee on the reversion of the Bible. It is in connection with Princeton Seminary, however, that Dr. Green will be longest remembered and most widely appreciated, for there lay his life-work. His own declaration that Princeton Seminary has always stood for fidelity to the word of God best expresses the principle on which his own life was founded. He represented his alma mater, moreover, in the sphere of scholarship as a great instructive as well as constructive force. As pupil, as professor and as student, his work was characterized by serious earnestness and unfailing devotion to duty. Thorough in his own work he required the same vigorous application from all who came under his control. He sought to introduce his pupils to a scholarly method of study, and, although he left the system unfinished, his treatise upon the Unity of the Book of Genesis will, from a literary standpoint, remain the final answer to all who doubt the authenticity of the Pentateuch. By his vindication of the scholarship of conservative criticism Dr. Green wielded an influence for the Church peculiarly powerful and effective. Dr. Green was, withal, a master of courtesy. As Chairman of the Committe on the revision of the Bible, he led his colleagues toward the completion of their great task with iniinite tact and patience. He was, in a word, a great Christian He loved fidelity, humility and self-devotion for their own sakes, and was possessed of unbounded sympathy. He was in every sense a noble, Christ-like man. 1 S

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Faculty and Instructors FRANCIS LANDEY PATTON, D.D., LL.D., CHARLES MCMILLAN, A.M., GE., PRESIDENT, Professor of Civil Engineering and Applied Mathe- Robert Lenox Professor of Biblical Instruction and matics. Stuart Professor of Ethics and the Philosophy of 40 Bayard Lane Religion. Prospect. CHARLES AUGUSTUS YOUNG, PH.D., LL.D., Professor of Astronomy. JOHN THOMAS DUFFIELD, D.D., LL.D., 16 Prospect Avenue. Emeritus Professor of Mathematics. 23 University Place. S. STANHOPE ORRIS, PH.D., L.H.D., Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature HENRY CLAY CAMERON, PH-Du D-D-, and Instructor in Greek Philosophy. CLERK OF THE FACULTY, 66 Nassau Street. Professor of Greek Language and Literature. 34 Mefcef Street- CHARLES GREENE RoCKWooD,JR., PH.D., x s Y 1 X Professor of Mathematics. LHARLE5 XR OODRUFF SHIELDS, D.D., LL.D., 34 Bayard Lane. Professor ,of the Harmony of Science and Revealed Religion. Morvenl THEODORE WHITEFIELD HUNT, PH.D., L.H.D., Professor of English Language and Literature. XVILLIAM ALFRED PACKARD, PHD., D.D., 43 Library Place' Kennedy Professor of Latin Language and Literature I and the Science of Language. GEORGE LANSING RAYMOND, L.H.D., College Place. Professor of Pisthetics. v X S3 Bayard Lane. CXRUS FOGG HRACKETT, M.D., LL.D., Henry Professor of Physics. X SAMUEL ROSS VVINANS, PH.D., 4 Prospect Avenue. DEAN or THE FACULTY, HENRY BEDINGER CORNWVALL, E.M., 1,-HAD-, Professor of Greek and Instructor in Sanskrit. Professor of Applied Chemistry and Mineralogy. 75 Nassau Street' 53 Nassau Street. Q VVILLIAM LIBBEY, D.SC., Princeton, GEORGE MACLOSKIE, LL-D-, D-SC-, Professor of Physical Geography and Director of the Professor of Biology- E. M. Museum of Geology and Archwology. 239 Nassau Street- zo Bayard Lane. IO