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lege, 1873-73, and professor of the same there, 1873-85, and of logic, rhetoric and public speak- ing at Amherst college, Massachusetts, 1885-98. He declined the Willard chair of rhetoric, oratory and logic at Dartmouth college. He was licensed to preacli by the Presbytery of Utica, N.Y., in 1877, and while at Hamilton college occupied pulpits ill the cities and larger towns of cen- tral New York. He traveled extensively in Europe ill 1885, 1890, 1891, 1894 and 1895-96. He received the degree of Ph.D from Amherst col- lege lu 1881. He adapted Austin Phelps's "Eng- lish Stylo in Public Discourse " for a text-book for eohools anil colleges under the title of " Rhetoric: Its Theory and Practice " and is the author of a eecond part on Practical Exercises in the Funda- mental Qualities of Emjlish Style (1895), also of the M'exo Century Speaker (1898). He died at Amherst, Mass., March 25. ISIIM,

FRISBEE, Samuel Hanna, educator, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., July 19, 1840; son of John and Harriet (Pitman) Frisbee, and a direct ilescendant from Edward Frisbee, who emi- gr:ited from England or Wales to Branford, Conn., in 1644, and whose name appears in the first list of landhold- ers who entered their names for lots Dec. 15, 1635. Samuel's great- grandfather was Col. Philip Frisbee of Ca- naan, N.Y., who a mouth before the signing of the Decla- J. ration of Indei^en-

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otlier inhabitants of King's district in the county of Albany and colony of New York which read as follows: "To solemnly en- gage and associate ourselves under all the Ties held Sacred among mankind, at the Risque of our lives and fortune to Defend b.y arms the United Colonies against the Hostile attemiJts of the Brit- ish Fleets and armies, until the Present unliappy Controversy between the two countries shall be settled." Colonel Frisbee served actively dur- ing the Revolution, first as captain of Co. 3, 17th regiment N.Y. .state militia, was promoted major in 1778, and afterward colonel. He represented Albany and Columbia counties in the New York state legislature. Samuel Hanna Frisbee was graduated at Yale in 1861, and studied law at Columbia, liut before receiving his degree he de- termined to embrace the Roman Catholic faith and prepare for the jiriesthood. He was admitted to the Society of Jesus, served at the novitiate at

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the Sault, Montreal, 1863-65, and at St. Mary's college, Montreal, 1865-66, and studied languages and literature at Quebec, 1866-68. He then si)ent one year at St. John's college, Fordham, N.Y., and two at Woodstock college, Md., in the study of metaphysics. He was professor of physics and mathematics at the College of St. Francis Xavier, New York city, 1871-75, studied theology, physics and higher mathematics at Louvain, Belgiimi, 1875-77, and was ordained a priest at Brussels, Sept. 9, 1877. After his probation spent in Eng- land and France he returned to America and took up his work at the College of St. Francis Xavier. In 1880 he was appointed president of the college, and he banished from the cm-riculum all studies except arts, languages, sciences and philo.sophy. The new church edifice was completed by him and dedicated in 1882. While rector of St. Fran- cis Xavier he spoke before the faculty and alumni of Yale at their annual banquet, the first Roman Catholic priest to be so honored. He retired from the presidency of the college in 1885, and took the chair of physics in Georgetown college, being removed in 1888 to Woodstock college to have the spiritual care of the younger members of the so- ciety in the pursuit of their philosophical and theological studies. In 1893 he was given the chair of chemistry for one year, and after a year at Greorgetown university became again spiritual director of the college. He contributed to the secular press articles on astronomy and physics, and at Woodstock edited an English edition of Pere Grou's Interior of Jesus and Mary with a preface and introduction to the Life and ]\'orks of Pere (iru)i; and Characteristics of True Devotion by the same author.

FRISBIE, Levi, educator, was born in Ipswich, Mass.. Sept. 15, 1783; .son of the Rev. Levi Frisbie, who was born in Branford, Conn., July 6, 1748; graduated from Dartmouth in 1771, was ordained a minister of the Congregational church in 1773; engaged as a missionary among the Delaware, Canadian and Maine Indians until 1776; became pastor of the first Congregational church, Ipswich, Mass., in 1776; published "Sermons and Ora- tions" (1783-1804); and died in Ipswich, Mass., in 1806. The son was graduated from Harvard in 1803, and began the study of law, which he abandoned because of failing eyesight. He was Latin tutor at Harvard, 180.5-11; college profes- sor of Latin. 1811-17, and Alford professor of natural religion, moral philosoi^hy, and civil polity, 1817-33. His writings were published bj' Prof. Andrews Norton of Harvard (1823). He died in Cambridge, Mass., July 9, 1822.

FRISBY, Edgar, astronomer, was born in Great Easton, Leicestersliire, England, May 22, 1837. He removed to Canada in 1856. and was graduated from the University of Toronto in