personal religion, and not a few traced their own most serious
thoughts to his example and to his faithfulness.

"This change in his feelings naturally determined his course in life,
and immediately after taking his first degree he entered the seminary
at Andover as a student in Theology. Here he pursued the profound and
difficult studies of his profession with a more than ordinary breadth
of scholarship, mingling classical and literary studies with those of
theology, but entering with zeal and a chastened enthusiasm into all
the duties and requirements of the place.

"He remained at Andover about two years, when, on account of a
threatened pulmonary complaint, he made a journey to the South, going
as far as Savannah, and spending the winter in various parts of the
Southern States. Having performed a considerable part of the tour on
horseback, he returned, in 1819, invigorated in health, and with a
mind enlarged and liberalized by what were then quite unusual
opportunities of observation and society, and was at once appointed to
the newly established chair of Rhetoric, at the early age of
twenty-three years. The college had but just gained the victory in its
desperate struggle for existence. It was poor, but hopeful, and it
moved forward with a policy of enlargement, determined to keep pace
with all advancing learning and culture.

"Before that time, the duties of the new department had been
distributed among all the college officers, and necessarily must have
lacked something in fullness and method. No other New England college,
except Harvard and Yale, then possessed such an officer, and the first
appointment to the post in New Haven bears date but two years
earlier."

"As an instructor, Professor Haddock was one of the best I ever knew.
I never knew a better. It is with unfeigned gratitude that I remember
my obligations to him, and I know I speak for thousands. As a critic,
he was discriminating and quietly suggestive, guided by a taste that
was nearly immaculate. His scholarship was unobtrusive, and his manner
without ostentation. He made no pretense of knowledge, but it was
always sufficient, always fresh, always sound. The range of his
thought was broad. His mind was versatile and active. You could hardly
find a subject with which he was not somewhat familiar, or in which he
would not readily become interested. His opinions were never
fantastic, nor exaggerated, nor disproportioned. He was not, perhaps,
so