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An American educator; born in New York city, Oct. 31, 1801; died in New Haven, Conn., July 1, 1889. He edited the "Alcestis" of Euripides (1833); the "Antigone" (1835), and the "Electra" of Sophocles (1837); the "Prometheus" of Aeschylus (1837); and the "Gorgias" of Plato (1842). He published his inaugural address, "College Education" (1846); "Historical Discourse upon Yale College" (1850); "Introduction to the Study of International Law" (1860); "An Essay on Divorce and Divorce Legislation" (1869); a book of sermons, "The Religion of the Present and the Future" (1871). He re-edited Prof. Francis Lieber's "Civil Liberty and Self-Government" (1874), and his "Manual of Political Ethics" (1874). He also published a work on "Political Science" (1877), and one on "Communism and Socialism" (1879).