. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. years toteach a district school, which he did for threewinters. Continuing his studies at Phillips-AndoverAcademy he finished his preparation for College atWilliston Seminary from which he was graduated in1848, delivering the Salutatory oration of his the same year he entered Harvard with the Classof 1852 ; was matriculated January 11, 1849, but didnot continue to graduation. Instead, he became a special
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. years toteach a district school, which he did for threewinters. Continuing his studies at Phillips-AndoverAcademy he finished his preparation for College atWilliston Seminary from which he was graduated in1848, delivering the Salutatory oration of his the same year he entered Harvard with the Classof 1852 ; was matriculated January 11, 1849, but didnot continue to graduation. Instead, he became a special student in the Lawrence Scientific School ofthat L^niversity, and was thus enabled in 1856 toenter the field as a popular lecturer on astronomy,in which he continued, in addition to his otheroccupations, for a period of more than thirty yearsconsecutively. He received the degree of Bachelorof Law in i860 as a graduate of the Law School ofHarvard, was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar, atGreenfield, in the same year, and commencedpractice in his native town, soon removing to .-Vlhol,where he has conducted a successful law businesssince that time. Notwithstanding his extensive. GEORGE \V. HORR professional business, he has always been engaged toa considerable extent in literary work, since 1854,when in company with the late Charles G. Colby heorganized a literary bureau in Brooklyn, New is the author of the histories of Athol, Petersham,Royalston, Phillipston, and Dana of \\orcestercounty, published in 1879, and was a contributor totiie history of the same county published in is the author of The Flora of Northern Worcester,illustrated, published in Picturesque Worcester, andis now engaged upon an extended history of NewSalem Academy. Among the public addressesdelivered by him, are those at the dedication of theTown Hallof Ervingin 1875, and of theTown Hall ofWarwick in 1895 ; the Centennial Fourth of July UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS ^7S address in Athol in 1876,
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