PROFESSOR GREENOUGH'S DEATH

James Bradstreet Greenough '56, for twentyeight years professor of Latin at Harvard, died yesterday morning at his home in Cambridge from the effects of a stroke of paralysis which he suffered more than a year ago.

Professor Greenough was born at Portland, Maine, May 4, 1833. His father, James Greenough, soon after moved to Boston, where the son was graduated from the Boston Latin School. Owing to eye trouble he did not at once enter college, but took a position in a wholesale dry goods house. His work, however, proved uncongenial, and after a course of study under a private tutor he came to Harvard in the fall of 1852. He was elected orator for the Class Day exercises in 1856. After his graduation he spent a year in the Cambridge Law School, and continued his legal studies in a law office in Marshall, Michigan, where he was in due course admitted to the bar. He continued the practice of law until 1865 when he accepted a position as tutor in Latin at Harvard. In 1873 he was made assistant professor, and was promoted to the full professorship ten years later. This position he held until failing health compelled his resignation in April of this year.

It was Professor Greenough who first conceived the idea of an institution for the collegiate instruction of women in connection with the University, and he was one of the first directors of the Annex, which has since become Radcliffe College. His writings on classical subjects, however, have done most to make him known. The Allen and Greenough Latin Grammar has had a very wide use in schools. He has also edited editions of Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Horace and Livy, and was an active contributor to various periodicals and to the proceedings of many learned societies. His other works include an Analysis of the Latin Subjunctive, privately issued in 1870, and frequent articles in the Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, a publication which owes its origin to him. He was a member of the American Philological Association, the American Dialect Society, and the History of Religions Club.

Professor Greenough was married in 1860 to Mary Batley Ketchum of Michigan, by whom he had two sons: James Jay Greenough '82, now one of the principals of the Noble and Greenough School in Boston, and Robert Batley Greenough '92, a Boston physician. Mrs. Greenough died in 1893. Professor Greenough was again married in 1895 to Harriet Sweetser Jenks of Allston, Mass., who survives him.

The funeral services, to which all members of the University are invited, will be held in Appleton Chapel tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock.