University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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JABEZ BRQOKS- C. W. HALL. MAR: l JOHN F. DOWNEY N. H. WxNcHELL. WILLMM W F OLWELL. f b. I 46' n ,Lia -C Y JOHN S. CLARK. 4 '.u.fQ,. ANFQRD. HARRY PRATT JUDSON. A . CHARLES W BENTON JAMES A. DODGE. WM. A. PIKE. A, h. ll THE FACU LTY-'PLATE A. J. CORRIN HUTCHINSON

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X Faculty and lnstruetorg. - - Bioqrapfyieal. - - 1 Grams YEORVBHROID, Lau. D. CYRUS NORTHROP, LL. D., was born in Ridgefield, Conn., September 30, 1834. He attended school in Ridgefield until he was sixteen years of age, then spent one year at study at Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass., entered Yale College in 1852 with the class of '56, remained two terms, and then was obliged to leave college on account of illness. He entered the class of '57 in Yale in 1854. While in college he took a number of prizes, especially in speaking and writing, :and graduated the third scholar in aclass of onehundred and our. 1 After graduation he taught for two ears in New Haven, and in 1860 he graduated at the Yale Law School. A year later he began the practice of law in Norfolk, Conn. He was Assistant Clerk and Clerk of the House of Representatives of Connecticut, in 1860 and '61, and Clerk of the Senate in '62. In the summer of the same year lie became editor-in-chief of the New Haven DIllLS'1,8lllldil1D7, and after a year's service as editor, was called to the professorship of Rhetoric and En- glish Literature in Yale College, which position he held till 1884, when he resigned his professorship to accept the presi- dency of the University of Minnesota. For twenty years, commencing in 1856, he was active in politics, taking part! in every campaign and delivering many 'addressesin each. Thegreat movement begun in 1856 seemed, in 1876, to have accomplished its object, and since that time he has taken no part in political or party affairs. In 1867he was a candidate for Congress in the New Haven district. He has delivered many-addresses in a number of the States of the Union, speaking upolredncational,religious and politic-al sub- jects. - 'Some of these addresses have been printed, but he has written no books for publicat ion. His life at Yale was one of numerous responsibilities and of such continual demands on his time as to afford little opportunity for outside work in the way of literary activity. 9