University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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PROFESSOR HENRY S. CARHART

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lohnson that a Illilll will please more upon the whole by 1zqg'a!z'r'cqualities than by positive- that an acquiescent and complacent spirit that never antag- onizes anybody is the one more likely to win than the opposite. Now it has certainly been the fortune of Mr. Barbour to win friendship, esteem and favor in all the w'-lks he has chosen to tread. True, he has never aspired to party notoriety or party prestige, and so his capacity to. please in that field has never been tested. But this is certain, that he could never be reckoned among Dr. johnson's f7fL'l75l'llg' men. For a person more positive and out- spoken cannot be foIInd. He judges for himself, and when occasion requires does llOt hesitate to express his judgments in plain Anglo-Saxon. May we not prefer MIQ B2l1'bOlI1',S example to Dr. johnson's postulate? G. 'S I UNIVERSl'l'Y LIBRARY.

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Professor Henry S. Corhort. ENRY S. CARHART was born at Coeymans, Albany County, New York, March 27, I844. His early life was spent on his father's farm and the educational facilities afforded were confined to the district school. Naturally of an ingenious and mechanical turn of mind, the young physicist found little to his taste in farm life except in so far as it afforded an opportunity for the use of tools or the management of machinery. His fondness for books and the example of an older brother preparing for college easily gave a scholarly bent to a mind already so inclined. Obliged by neces- sity to depend entirely upon his own efforts in his preparation for college, we find him at sixteen installed as teacher of the district school near his home, and filled with the desire for a collegiate education. The following summer he worked as usual upon the farm, where his readiness in the use of tools rendered him a valued assistant. A picket fence about the old homestead, built by him in his seventeenth year, still stands, an upright witness to his careful skill and thorough workmanship. After two years of district school in winter and work on the farm in sum- mer, he spent a year in the Hudson River Institute, at Claverack, in preparation for college. The next year he was in charge of a Quaker school for boys in a Small town near Poughkeepsie, where he earned sufficient money to enable him to complete his preparation at Claverack. Having read thenecessary G'reek in'a single year, and completed the' Latin and Mathematics in a little over two years, he was examined and admitted to Yale College in l865., The succeeding autumn, however, he decided to enter the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, from which he graduated as valedictorian of his class in 1869. After graduation he taught Latin for two years at Claverack. At the end of that time he decided to try for something better, and, although strongly dissuaded by the same man who had urged him to go to college, he resigned and entered the Yale Divinity School. This year was a period of transition 5 the charms of the classics and theology were balanced against the