. Memories of Yale life and men, 1854-1899 . pleasantremembrance, for it would recall the beginning of themanhood of each and all. I would pass, however, from this brief digression toProfessor Newton, and say a few words of him. Hewas taken out of our Tutorial board, because of hisalready recognized mathematical ability, and of thefeeling of the College authorities that the professor-ship then recently made vacant by the death of ProfessorStanley should be filled as soon as possible. In the sum-mer of 1855 the appointment was given him to a per-manent position as the occupant of that chair. At
. Memories of Yale life and men, 1854-1899 . pleasantremembrance, for it would recall the beginning of themanhood of each and all. I would pass, however, from this brief digression toProfessor Newton, and say a few words of him. Hewas taken out of our Tutorial board, because of hisalready recognized mathematical ability, and of thefeeling of the College authorities that the professor-ship then recently made vacant by the death of ProfessorStanley should be filled as soon as possible. In the sum-mer of 1855 the appointment was given him to a per-manent position as the occupant of that chair. At thattime he was only twenty-four years of age, yet notwith-standing his youth his friends had strong confidence thatthe years, as they passed, would show his fitness for thework assigned to him and would witness his Intellectual gifts, as they thought, were such asqualified him in no ordinary degree for the studies towhich he was called to devote himself. He had the In-sight of the true mathematician and easily comprehended 396. PROFESSOR HUBERT A. NEWTON MEMORIES OF YALE LIFE AND MEN the problems, whatever they might be, which his scienceoffered. His thought reached out with readiness to-wards the things as yet unknown, and he moved forwardto the understanding of them by means of the most care-ful and accurate reasoning. The broadness of his mind as related to science wasshown, in later years, by his attainments in astronomyand meteorology. He was perhaps the most efficientagent in the establishment of the Astronomical Observa-tory at Yale. His devotion to its interests manifesteditself at all times. For a considerable number of yearshe held the office of its director, and until his death hewas continuously a member of its Board of Managers,and the Secretary of the Board. The University lost,when he died, an astronomer of high reputation, as wellas a mathematician of the first rank. Like many men of mathematical powers—thoughnot indeed all—he had a certain hes
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