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gree ; he ran the blockade and arrived at his
home in 1862; he at once volunteered for
service, and was assigned to duty as lieu-
tenant on Jeb Stuart's staff; a little later he
was transferred to the corps of engineers,
and served as captain until the close of- the
war. In the fall of 1865 he opened in Rich-
mond, in company with his old schoolmate,
John M. Strother, a classical school for boys,
and there taught until 1868, in which year
he was called to a chair in Randolph-Macon
College, where he spent eight years, which
were not the least effective in his carter;
he possessed the art of stimulating in his
pupils a love of learning, of planting deep
and strong the roots of a life-long devotion
to scholarship, and within a few years his
graduates, with college culture broadened
and deepened by university studies in Ger-
many, were filling chairs of English in
southern and southwestern schools; in 187G
the opening of the Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity called his old master, Gildersleeve,
away to Baltimore, and Mr. Price was in-
\ited to fill his chair and for the following
six years he served his alma mater as pro-
fessor of Greek; his lecture room was
crowded with earnest students, warmed by
the fire of his enthusiasm and stimulated
bv his eager passion for learning, and his
I enown as a teacher grew apace ; the call
to Columbia was the reward of his success,
and to Mr. Price it seemed rich in beautiful
possibilities, relief from much of the drud-
gery of his professional duties, opportuni-
ties for special study, time for original re-
search, the artistic resources of urban life
in a great city, and above all, perhaps, res-
toration to that work in English which he
particularly loved; he spent twenty-one
years in Columbia, saw it grow into a great
university, and at the time of his death was
sixth in official rank in that vast faculty ; the
courses offered by him covered a wide range,
from Anglo-Saxon literature down through
Chaucer and Shakespeare to Tennyson and
Browning and Matthew Arnold; he never
narrowed his field to that of the modern
specialist; in Columbia as in Virginia his
art was to mould and stimulate and inspire
men; he was not a prolific writer, and his
writings are few in number and slender in
\olume; his "Teaching of the Mother
Tongue," "Shakespeare's Verse Construc-
t:on." and monographs of "King Lear" and
other plays go far to exhaust the list ; his
v-ork as a scholar must be judged therefore
less from the volume or the quality of his
writings than from the testimony of the
men who worked under him and with him;
his art as a teacher was to make learning
lovable. "His learning." writes his colleague
Woodberry. "was great in range and exact
in detail. His thirst for knowledge was in-
satiable and few fields of thought or litera-
ture were unvisited by him. In the con-
\ersation of daily life he surprised both by
his brilliancy and light touch. He had the
faculty of making learning a social thing.
He blended deference with dignity and
grace with strength, and he had uncommon
sweetness of nature. There was no man
whom it was so simply to love ;" he died at
his home in New York City. May 7, 1903.
Moore, Charles Lee, born October 22, 1862, at Orange Court House. Virginia, son of Charles Catlett Moore and Virginia Anne Boulware, his wife. He graduated at Po- tomac Academy. Alexandria City. Virginia; studied law and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1883, in the corporation court of
