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 ing one of his last good offices for the school. His health had been worn away by his triple exertions as teacher, author, and judge. For thirty-three years he had missed but one term of court at Washington; yet when he realized he must give up some of his work he preferred to keep that at Cambridge, and was just arranging his resignation from the bench when he was stricken with his last sickness. For over two years Professor Greenleaf, having been promoted to the Dane Professorship, performed almost all the work of the school, until he too felt his health giving way, and was compelled to resign. The chair was then accepted by Theophilus Parsons, of Brookline. He was at that time in a large Boston practice, leaving his house so early and returning so late that he had hardly any home or family life at all; and he used to tell how his young son one day inquired, “Mother, who is that nice gentleman that sometimes spends Sundays here, and seems so fond of me?”

The Royall Professorship, left vacant by Greenleatf’s promotion, had meantime been held for a year by the son of Chancellor Kent, and was then filled by Joel Parker, Chief Justice of New Hampshire. Under him and Parsons the main work of the school went on for nearly a decade. The University Professorship was revived for a year, with F. H. Allen as incumbent, but he resigned in 1850. Other well-known names are asso-