Henry Alfred Todd

Professor Todd's memory will always be deeply cherished by those who had the pleasure of coming in contact with his gracious and affable personality.He was one of the pioneers in a field that in his later years came to be recognized as one of the most important subjects in the curricula of American educational institutions.Graduating at Princeton with the A.B. degree in 1876, he became instructor in Johns Hopkins University in 1883, after having passed three years in study in Paris, Berlin, Rome and Madrid.Associated with Professor A. Marshall Elliott he began a career of usefulness seldom, if ever, equaled in the history of an American university.In enthusiastic cooperation these two eminent scholars embarked upon the problematic career of educating the American student public along philological lines, and, with that aim in view, began the publication of the Modern Language N ates, a learned journal that still occupies