SPRAGUE, Homer Baxter, American edu cator: b. Sutton, Miss., 19 Oct. 1829. He was graduated from Yale in 1852, studied at the Yale Law School and in 1854 was admitted to the bar. He entered the Union army in 1861, was commissioned colonel in 1864 and in 1866 was mustered out of service. He was a mem ber of the Connecticut legislature in 1868, pro fessor at Cornell in 1868-70 and was founder and first president of Martha's Vineyard Sum mer Institute. He was president of Mill's Col lege, California, in 1885-86, of the University of North Dakota in 1887-91 and has since been engaged as a lecturer at Drew Theological Seminary, Chautauqua assemblies and else where. He has written (Fellowship of Slave holders> (1857) ; School and Citizen ship' (1883) ; (Voice and Gesture' (1874 1903) ; (History of the Thirteenth Connecticut Infantry> (1867); (Inaugural Addresses> (Adelphi Academy, 1870), Mills College, 1885) ; (The Place of Literature in a College Course) (1887) ; Educational Party Needed> (1886) ; (Free Text-hooks Necessary in School and College> (1886) ; (The Pilgrim Fathers and Civil Government' (1894) ; (The Assassina tion: Who is Responsible> (1901) (The Na tion's Honor Roll: Fiftieth Anniversary of Yale Class of 1852> (1902) ; (Shakespeare's Al leged Blunders in Legal Terminology> (1902) ; (The Right and the Wrong in our Civil War) (1903) ; (Appreciation of Daniel Coit Gilman) (1910) ; (Appreciation of George W. Shinn>
(1911) ; (The Elevation of His Satanic Majesty in Alpha Sigma Phi) (1912) ; (Ban quet Speech as Grand Senior President) (1913) ' • (Literal Metrical • Version of the Book of Job,> with (Essay on The Mystery of Un deserved Suffering in the Light of Evolution' (1914) ; (Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons> (1915) ; (Studies in Shakespeare> (first series); annually for the last five years giving courses of lectures at Cornell on Shakes peare, Milton, The Book of Job, Goldsmith, The Story of Paradise Lost, etc.