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Przoeesson W. G. T. SHEDD, DD., LL.D. 'Qmiltiam CBFCCNOIIQD GDHQGI' Bbebb was born in Acton, Nlass., in the year 1820. When he was still a child his father removed to Willsboro in Essex County, New York, where he was pastor of a Congregational Church. l-le was a graduate of Dartmouth College, of the class of 1817. Willsboro lies a few miles from the western shore of Lake Champlain in the direction of the Adirondacks, and was a place of primitive simplicity. The son made his preparatory studies at West- port and came across the lake to the college at the' age of fifteent years. The father accompanied and maintained a home for him during his course. The University was then under the presidency of Dr. John Wheeler, and the faculty included ex-President Marsh in the chair of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and the future President Torrey in the chair of Latin and Greek. Nlr. Shedd received his degree with the class of 11839. Dr. Francis B. Wheeler of the class of 1842, who continued for a life time an intimate friend, describes the young student as of grave face and manners yet mirthtul in spirit and of quick wit, a leader in scholarship, evincing from the start that power of clear thinking and lucid expression which characterized him ever afterward. Upon grad- uation he went to New York city in the capacity of private tutor, because he was not ready to choose a profession. There he came under the ministry of Dr. Asa D. Smith, afterward President of Dartmouth, settled the question of personal religion, and decided to study for the ministry. Nlr. Shedd took the course at Andover Seminary, receivinghis diploma with the class of 1845. In the meanwhile he had mastered the German language to read though not to speak it. French became at his command likewise. The youthful theologian was ordained to the ministry and in- stalled pastor of the Congregational Church in Brandon, Vermont, in 1844. The next year he was summoned by the University to the pro- fessorship of English Literature. Seven years were passed in this service, and they were to him years of marvellous acquisition. He seems to have traversed the entire range of literature in the English language, threading his way back into the Anglo-Saxon and embracing as with boundless capacity the wealth of the successive periods, especially of the opulent 5
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