The College System of Education. A Discourse Delivered Before the Trustees of Hamilton College, ... by S. North, on ... His Inauguration as President, Etc
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Anglo-Saxon Literature. An Oration Delivered Before the Connecticut Alpha of the Phi, Beta, Kappa, at New Haven, August 18th, 1847
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Simeon North was an American educator and clergyman. He was a trustee of Auburn Theological Seminary and served nine years.
Background
Simeon North was born on September 7, 1802 in Berlin, Connecticut, United States. He was the son of Colonel Simeon North and Lucy (Savage) N. His elder brothers, Reuben, James, Alvin, and Selah, were engaged with their father in manufacturing firearms.
Education
Simeon entered Yale College and was graduated in 1825 with the rank of valedictorian.
Career
After spending two years in the Yale Divinity School he was appointed tutor in Yale College in 1827. In 1829, having before him a choice between one of the best parishes in Connecticut and a professorship of ancient languages in Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, he chose the latter. On arriving at the scene of his labors he found the fortunes of the college at their lowest ebb. Owing to internal dissensions ten of the trustees had resigned and the faculty consisted of the president, Henry Davis, and the professor of chemistry, Josiah Noyes. Only nine students remained, and these were members of the lower classes. Nothing daunted, the young professor entered upon his duties and had the satisfaction of seeing the regular succession of graduating classes resumed, after an intermission of two years, and never again interrupted.
After serving ten years as a teacher he was elected fifth president of the college, and held that office until 1857. In May 1842 he was ordained to the ministry by the Oneida Association of Congregational Churches.
Five years later he delivered the oration before the Yale chapter of Phi Beta Kappa: Anglo-Saxon Literature (1847). Other published addresses and discourses are The College System of Education (1839), his inaugural address; sermons at the funeral of his colleague and intimate friend, Professor Marcus Catlin (1849), and of his predecessor in the presidency, Dr. Henry Davis (1852). In 1879 he made his last contribution to the literature of the College in the form of a Half-Century Letter of reminiscence, marking the fiftieth anniversary of his election to the chair of ancient languages.
The years following his resignation, 1857 to 1884, were spent at his home near the campus, where, as a trusted counselor of three succeeding presidents, he lived quietly, finding satisfaction in cultivating old friendships and in reading the classics, ancient and modern.
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Connections
North married on April 21, 1835, Frances Harriet Hubbard, daughter of Dr. Thomas Hubbard, professor of surgery in Yale Medical College. Her death occurred January 21, 1881; their only son died in boyhood.