A MARVEL OF VERSATILITY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3726, 25 June 1883, Page 4

A MARVEL OF VERSATILITY.

AVo often hoar of the extraordinary versatility of the Yankees, to many of whom no sort of work seems to come amiss, and who are apt to be "everything by turns, and nothing long." But perhaps the most remarkable illustration of this is the one furnished by Dr Paul A. Chadbourno, the president of tho Agricultural College of Massachusetts, avlio died recently at the ago of sixty. A native of the State of Maine, ho worked as a youth on a farm and partially at a carpenter's bench. At seventeen ho became a clerk in a drug store, studied medicine and saved a little money—sufficient to enable him to enter as a student the Philips Academy at Exeter, a sort of secondary school, where ho was prepared for college. In 184S he was the top man in tho graduating class at AVilliams College. Ho next studied theology, and became principal of a high school. Afterwards he filled professorships of chemistry in three colleges, and another chair as well in the Berkshire Medical College. Afterwards, he became, in succession, president of AVisconsin University, of Bowdion College, and of | Williams College. At the time of his doath, as wo havo already said, ho was tho president of an agricultural college. He had taught almost every department of knowledgo—theology, metaphysics, mathematics, natural science, and classics; he was incessantly lecturing ; many books on theological as well as philosophical subjects flowed from his unresting pen ; ho was an expert as a land surveyor and valuator ; when Agassiz died he succeeded the groat naturalist as a member of the State Board of Agriculture in Massachusett; he was an active director of the banks and insurance companies ; and, finally, he was interested in the direction of a great manufacturing, business. A more enaycloptedian man was probably not to bo found, even in the United States, and his industry was simply unparalleled. In theology he was staunchly orthodox.