HADLEY, JAMES (1821-72). A distinguished linguist and classical scholar, born at Fairfield. N. Y. An accident in boyhood made him hope lessly lame, and deprived him of all hope of an active life. He graduated from Yale_ College, first in his class, in 1842, and in 1844 he was made tutor in Middlebury College (Vermont). In the following year he was appointed tutor at Yale, and in 1848 became assistant professor of Greek. In 1851 he was elected professor to suc ceed Dr. Woolsey, and continued to hold this office until his death. Although he had taken a theo logical course at New Haven immediately after graduation, Professor Hadley devoted himself to the study of languages. He was very efficient as a teacher, and became one of the most emi nent linguists of his time. In addition to Greek, he was familiar with Sanskrit, Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, Gothic, Armenian, Gaelic, Swedish, and the principal modern languages. He was also
well versed in early English, and was the author of The History of the English Language in the introduction to the earlier editions of Webster's Dictionary. He published a Greek Grammar (1860), based on that of Curtius, which, as re vised by Prof. F. D. Allen, of Harvard Uni versity (1884), has maintained a place with that of Goodwin as standard in American schools and colleges. An Essay on the Greek Accent was republished in Curtius, Studien war griechischen and lateinischen Grammatik. Wool sey edited a posthumous volume of his lectures on Roman Law in 1873, and in the same year Prof. W. D. Whitney edited a second volume of twenty Philological and Critical brother HENRY H. HADLEY was a professor of He brew in Union Theologieal Seminary, and his son ARTHUR is president of Yale University.