ammar, theological disquisitions, and the superintendency of schools
in Newburyport occupied his attention until Mrs. Cutler's death in
1854, when he entered into the employment of the Board of Education in
Massachusetts as its agent. In this capacity he rendered the State
most valuable services by visiting the public schools in various parts
of the State, and by his instructive and practical lectures on
educational subjects. So efficient were his labors, that in 1857 he
was appointed by the Board of Education to the principalship of the
State Normal School in Salem; this important post he occupied eight
years. To the interests of this school he zealously devoted his great
knowledge and ability, raising it to a high standard of excellence and
giving to it a most honorable reputation. He gave the school the
largest part of its valuable library, and obtained for its use the
most of its considerable cabinet. By his heartfelt kindness and his
faithful instructions he secured the love and profound esteem of his
pupils, who will ever hold him in affectionate remembrance. In the
Normal School and elsewhere, as he had opportunity, Professor Crosby
earnestly advocated the liberal education of women, believing that
their educational advantages ought to equal those enjoyed by men.

"While principal of the school at Salem he, for several years, was the
editor-in-chief of the 'Massachusetts Teacher,' performing gratuitous
labors which were highly appreciated by the teachers of Massachusetts
and of other States.

"Having traveled through the Southern States, that he might gain a
better knowledge of his own country before he went abroad, he became
deeply impressed with the iniquities of slavery, and dropped readily
into the ranks of the abolitionists. He was intensely interested in
all the discussions and phases of freedom, from Adams's 'Right of
Petition' crusade down to the day of his death. His patriotism during
the war was full and glowing. The political disquisitions in his
'Right Way,' which he edited for a year, upon the question of
reconstruction, were keen and convincing. He also published a series
of elementary lessons for teaching the freed-men of the South to read.

"During all these years, after leaving his professorship,
he was building other educational books besides his Greek
Grammar--'Xenophon's Anabasis,' 'Eclogae Latinae,' 'Lessons in
Geometry,' a 'Greek Lexicon' for his Anabasis, and, last, 'Explanatory
Notes to