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Hair 1H11IUP1'HIfg, 151 1 2-15 1 3 have some real love and appreciation of literature. He bethought himself of Mr. Lewis, languishing in a metropolitan attorney's office. He suggested to him a change from New York to New Haven, from Blackstone to Shakespeare. No need to ask him twice. Mr. Lewis came without any urging, and after a year of graduate studies, was made in 1895 instructor in English in Yale College. He received the doctor's degree in 1898, and the publication of his thesis, The Foreign Sources of English Versificationf' established his position as a scholar. In this same year he was made an assistant professor, and in a few months, in the spring of 1899, he was elected by the Corporation, Professor of English Litera- ture on the Emily Sanford foundation, being the first incumbent of this chair, the endowment for which had been left to the College by the late Judge Billings. Since that date Mr. Lewis has steadily grown in scholarly work and in the high art of teaching, His publications include: The Principles of English Verse, 1905, and The Genesis of Hamlet, in 1907, in addition to these works of pure scholarship, Mr. Lewis published in 1903 an original poem, Gawayne and the Green Knight, which combined in a most happy manner poetic fantasy with playful humor. As a teacher, he is one of the most valuable men on the entire Faculty, possessing great skill in the presentation of his subject, along with genuine sympathy for and understanding of his pupils. Common sense-an uncommon quality in poets-is the foundation of his mind and temperament, and partly accounts for his extraordinary success with every class that he has taught. Up to this point I have tried to regard the life and character of Mr. Lewis from the standpoint of an impartial observerg but it is impossible to remain thus aloof. I knew him when he was an undergraduate, and during the last eighteen years we have lived together in the closest intimacy as colleagues in the same department of a great university. Members of the Faculty have the same esprit de corps, the same sincere and ardent friendships that are found among undergraduates. Suffice it to say that the years of association and of steady effort in a common cause have steadily increased my admiration of this professor, and my affection for this man. W1LL1.,x M LYON P HELPS. Yale College 25 January, 1913 S

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