Frederic DeForest Allen.

Frederic DeForest Allen, Ph. D., professor of classical philology, died on August 4 from the effects of a paralytic shock, sustained while riding along Lafayette road, about four miles from Portsmouth, N. H.

Professor Allen was born in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1844. After graduating at Oberlin College in 1863, he studied for several years at the University of Leipsic. In 1866 he became a professor at the University of Tennessee. He left that institution to accept a professorship in the University of Cincinnati and was called from there to a chair at Yale. After a short stay at Yale he accepted in 1880 the chair of classical philology at Harvard, which he held at the time of his death.

Professor Allen was widely known as an editor of the classics and as the author of a work on Greek versification. He was also one of the oldest members in point of service of the Harvard

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