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studies which the position afforded him was of the greatest advantage to him, and was most diligently improved. He was able to enter upon the prosecution of those comprehensive plans of literary culture which he had already outlined for himself. Nlr. Nlarsh was then greatly interested in literature as an expression of the human mind. He entered upon a more profound study of the great products of ancient and of modern genius with the view to discover the pervading spirit of each. He was attracted also to the mediaeval period as containing within it the germ of modern cultivation. In all his inquiries into these subjects the philo- sophic breadth and penetration of Mr. Nlarsh's mind revealed itself, and indicated unmistakably that nature had designed him to be a scholar. On his return to Andover we rind him still carrying on, alongside the prescribed studies of the seminary course, these investigations into general literature. He was becoming well acquainted with several of the modern languages. ' During his last year in the seminary Mr. Nlarsh published in the c7lC01'ztb afIme1'z'mn qQ6'ZJl'E'w QJuly, 18225 a review of an Italian work by Gattinara di Breme. The article bears the title, Ancient and Modern Poetry. lt attempts to point out the distinguishing features of modern genius as compared with the ancient 3 and more particularly to show how much, in the peculiar character of modern art, is due to the influence of Christianity in giving a more spiritual direction to the powers of the human mind. Mr. Nlarsh was particularly prohcient in the German language. Nluch of his reading at that time and thereafter throughout life was in German authors. Before he left the Seminary he had begun, with a friend, the translation of the German work of Bellermann, on the Geography of the Scriptures, which task was afterward completed, so far as his own part was concerned, during an interval of leisure at home, when he dispatched, his biographer states, rave hundred pages in a fortnight. About two years after leaving the Seminary Nlr. Nlarsh received and accepted an appointment to the Professorship of the Biblical Languages and Literature in Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia. During the three years in which he held that office he began to translate from the Ger- man, Herder's f' Spirit of Hebrew Poetry, the first dialogues of which were published in the Christian Reposfforgf at Princeton. The transla- 6
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President marsh -.------ ' AMES MARSH, a name held in highest veneration by the Alumni, the Hfth president of the University of Vermont, was born in Hartford, Vermont, July 19th, 1794. He was the son of a farmer, Daniel Marsh, who is described as a man of 'plain good sense, and the same native sincerity and candor which formed so beauti- ful a trait in the character of his son. The grandfather of James, Joseph Marsh, Esq., was one of the early settlers of Vermont. He came from Lebanon, Connecticut, and established himself at Hartford about the year 1772. He became prominent in political affairs and was a member of the convention at Westminster which declared the inde- pendence of Vermont, and, upon the organization of the government in 1778, was chosen the first Lieutenant-Governor. In the house of his grandfather, in the valley of the Otta Quechee River, James Marsh was horn. For the first eighteen years of his life he followed the occupation of his father, and it was intended by his parents that he should remain a farmer , but his elder brother, who was destined for college, relinquished his purpose, and James took his place. After brief preparatory studies he entered Dartmouth College in the fall of 1813, at the age of nineteen. The maturity of mind and the habits of industry which he brought with him inclined and enabled him to make the utmost of his opportunities. An eager' student, enterprising and ambitious, in a noble sense, he manifested at that early period the same desire for breadth and comprehensiveness in learning which dis- tinguished all his subsequent career as a scholar. During his college course a deeper experience in his religious life quickened and expanded his intellect, and thereafter he devoted himself with redoubled ardor to his studies. lt gave also a new direction to his life. In November, 1817, Mr. Marsh entered the Theological Seminary at Andover with the view of preparing for the ministry. But after remaining there about a year he was offered and accepted the position of tutor at Dartmouth College. This ofiice he held for two years. The opportunity for 5
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