competence in teaching and his “high moral worth”
made a most favorable impression, it was made permanent by request of his colleagues. He read and spoke French, German, Spanish, and Italian and had a good knowledge of Russian and Arabic. For use in his courses he produced a French grammar and reader. In 1865 the Trustees regretfully accepted his resignation. His career was to include professorships at Vassar, Yale and the University of Chicago.
Professor Ezra S. Gallup, who had taught the Classical languages since 1850, left in 1867. Newton L. Andrews, Class of 1862 and a Seminary graduate, Principal of the Grammar School since 1864 and Latin Professor since 1865, and Edward Judson, then studying in the theological department, took over Gallup’s classes. Andrews became Professor of Greek in 1868; a position he was to hold with great distinction for fifty years. Judson, son of Adoniram Judson, the noted missionary to Burma, had lived as a boy in Professor Dodge’s home and after three years in the college transferred to Brown where he graduated in 1865. He was Professor of Latin and Modern Languages at Madison from 1868 to 1874.
Three more appointments made in. 1868 completed the faculty roster: John J. Lewis, Professor of Logic and English Literature; Albert S. Bickmore, Professor of Natural History; and James M. Taylor, Instructor .in Mathematics. Lewis a former student at Madison (1860-63) and a Hamilton College alumnus of the Class of 1864, assumed part of the instruction formerly given by Professor Beebee so that the latter might devote all his time to civil and ecclesiastical history. He was an effective and highly esteemed member of the faculty until his death in 1884. Professor Bickmore, Class of 1860 at Dartmouth, had been an assistant to Louis Agassiz at Harvard and was well-known for his scientific articles and his Travels in the East Indian Archipelago. His two-year stay on the campus gave a notable impetus to instruction in science. Taylor, the last of the appointees, on graduating from-the College in 1867 had entered the Seminary where he completed the course two years later. It was in mathematics, however, that his real bent lay as his career of over fifty years as teacher and author revealed.
Most appointments to the faculty from 1850 to 1869 were made to the rank of full professor; there were exceptions-“adjunct professor,”
lecturer, instructor, and tutor-for a few men who held these positions
