. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. ed the lawoffice of John Adams in Boston, returning the nextyear to New Haven where he established himself inhis profession. He had early developed a facility inliterary work, notably in connection with his friend,Timothy Dwight, in the production of essays in thestyle of the Spectator, and later, while a Tutor atYale, he had published a satire on the prevailingmethods of education, entitled. The Progress of Dull-
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. ed the lawoffice of John Adams in Boston, returning the nextyear to New Haven where he established himself inhis profession. He had early developed a facility inliterary work, notably in connection with his friend,Timothy Dwight, in the production of essays in thestyle of the Spectator, and later, while a Tutor atYale, he had published a satire on the prevailingmethods of education, entitled. The Progress of Dull- ness. It was while practising law in New Haven,in 1774, that he published his McFingal, a satiri-cal poem on the customs of the times, in epic formand Hudibrastic verse. This attained great popu-larity, was published in many editions, both hereand in London, and to the present day some ofJudge Trumbulls couplets which have become pro-verbs are commonly credited to Butlers poem is the work by which Judge Trumbull isbest known, but a series of satirical prose essaysw-hich he produced in the period immediately fol-lowing the War of the Revolution had in their time. JOHN TRU.\lt!Ll,L a notable influence in steadying public opinion andchecking the tendency to run into excesses. JudgeTrumbull began his public service as States Attor-ney for Hartford county, Connecticut, in 1789. Hewas elected a member of the Legislature in 1792and again in iSoo, and sat on the Bench of theSuperior Court for eighteen years, 1801-1819, re-ceiving in iSoS the additional appointment ofJudge of the Supreme Court of Errors, which heheld until 1S19. Yale conferred upon him thedegree of Doctor of Laws in 1818, and he held theoffice of Treasurer of that corporation from 1776 to1782. In 1825 he removed to Detroit, Michigan,where he resided for six years, until his death, May10, 1831. 84 UNIFERSiriES AND ^rilEIR SONS DEXTER, George Ticknor Harvard in Boston, 1858 ; educated
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