whole time to their university work for some
years. It is somewhat suggestive too, that both Spanish and Italian were
offered in the University before a course in German was announced in
1849. Professor Fasquelle was educated at the famous Ecole Polytechnique
in Paris, but was obliged to leave France on account of his
participation in the revolutionary movement of that period. As Professor
in the University he proved "peculiar, but very learned and efficient."
The stories of his difficulty with the English language are many, and
most of the classic stories told of various members of the French
Faculty by successive student generations were originally told of him.
He was the first "infiddle," though he was always punctilious in
attendance at chapel, which he adjourned on one occasion because the
"praying Professor" did not appear. His "vocabul'-ary" was good, but in
the words of the time-honored song, "He went up on his emphas'-is."

The new regime of Dr. Tappan witnessed the establishment of a different
tradition. The former deference to denominational precedent was
definitely abandoned and increasing stress was laid upon scholarly as
well as personal qualifications. The new President took the chair of
philosophy left vacant by the resignation of Professor Ten Brook, while
the old chair of ancient languages was speedily divided. James R. Boise,
Brown, '40, who already enjoyed a growing reputation as a scholar,
became Professor of Greek, while the Rev. Erastus O. Haven, Wesleyan,
'42, afterward the second President, became Professor of Latin.
Professor Boise though of a delicate physique possessed great force and
impressed the students with the absolute necessity of getting their
Greek lessons, _ruat coelum_. His insistence on discipline and high
standards in recitations had a profound influence on the mental habits
of those in his classes. Professor D'Ooge, '62, his successor, remarks
of him that "probably no teacher of those days got so much downright
hard work out of his pupils." Alvah Bradish was also appointed to the
chair of Fine Arts at this time, but without compensation, and, though
he apparently lectured occasionally, the course soon disappeared from
the catalogues, not to be revived for fifty years. The name of the Rev.
Charles Fox also appears momentarily as a Professor of Agriculture, a
department also destined to quick extinction with his death in less than
a year, in spite of the President's best efforts, f