o the Andover
Theological Seminary, to the closing scenes in his life, and to his
death at sea, Professor Brown says in conclusion:

"Few lives were more perfect than his, whose youth gave so fair a
promise, whose riper years so fully redeemed the pledge. His presence
shall still go with us all, to excite us to new fidelity, to enkindle
within us nobler affections, to inspire us with holier purposes."

His classmate Rev. Dr. Furber says:

"The ripe and rare scholarship of my beloved classmate and friend,
John Newton Putnam, was the fruit of diligence and the love of study
in one whose acquisitions were easily and rapidly made. Mr. Putnam
never seemed to be a hard worker, but knowledge was continually
flowing to him as by a process of absorption from his early childhood
until he became the accomplished and brilliant scholar that he was as
professor of Greek. His books were his constant companions, their
society was his pleasure and pastime, he preferred it, even in his
boyhood, to the sports and recreations for which most boys neglect
their studies. When in college he sat up at night after other students
were in bed to pursue the study of German and other modern languages
not then required by the college course. This he did from the pure
love of these studies, without the aid of a teacher, and without the
social stimulus of any companionship in such pursuits. And he probably
for the sake of study neglected needful bodily exercise every year of
his life.

"In the study of languages he found a fascination. The marvelous Greek
tongue was of course the richest field for him, the language of a
people of the finest and subtlest intellect, and of the highest
culture in the art of speech. He seemed at home in that wonderful
language as much almost as if it had been his mother tongue. The
elegance and vivacity, the felicity and energy of his translations
from Thucydides or Plato showed that he not only comprehended his
author and saw the subject as he saw it, but that he had fairly caught
the glow of the author's mind from the page which he had written.

"So accomplished a student of language could not have been ignorant of
his rank among his fellow students; but in all my intimacy with him,
boarding at the same table, occupying for a few months the same room,
and spending with him more or less time every day either in social
intercourse or in the enjoyment of vocal or instrumental music, I
never knew him to betray, by word