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Santipr anb Pot Pourrt THOMAS RAYNESFORD LOUNSBURY THE EDITORS of the Yale Banner and Pot Pourri do well in dedicating the volume to Thomas Raynesford Loiinsbury, for thirty-five years Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School. No man of his time has brought greater literary distinction to the University. He is the last of a notable group of scholars vphich included the elder Hadley, President Woolsey and William Dwight Whitney, with all of whom, especially Whitney; he was closely associated in the earlier days. Though Professor Lounsbury retired from active teaching several years ago, he has never gone into seclusion ; he is known to a large body of students, who meet him at the Elizabethan Club and elsewhere. For them he is a link between the new and the old Yale. Professor Lounsbury came to Yale from Ovid, New York, a small town lying in the beautiful district between Lakes Cayuga and Seneca, where his father was settled as pastor of the Presbj terian Church. At the average age he entered Yale College and graduated in 1859. His college career points backward to a literary home and looks forward to the career he chose after a little delay. Besides main- taining high standing in his general studies, he shared in all the official literary honors of his class, which may be enumerated as Sophomore prizes for English comjDOsition, the Junior Exhibition, and the Town send Speaking of Senior year. As an editor of the Lit., he wrote the first leader for his board, defining clearly the aim and purpose of the magazine. The editors of today might well turn back to that article. His other contributions to this college periodical gave evidence of that humor, unconventional treatment, and energy of style which we are now always sure of finding in one of his books. At the outbreak of the Civil War, lie heeded the call for young men to go to the front. He was commissioned first lieutenant in the 126th Regiment of New York Volunteers, and served to the end of the war, through many of the great battles, including Gettysburg. During a part of these eventful years, he kept a journal, from which he has often read to his friends and from which last year he published extracts in the Yale Review. It is a document of rare freshness, vigor, and humor. A few years after the war was over. Professor Lounsbury came to the Sheffield Scientific School as the sole instructor of English in that institution. Needless to say, perhaps, his promotion to a professorship was immediate. 7 .