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homiletics and pastoral charge in the Yale Di-
vinity School, a position which he held until
1879. During the first two years he was called
upon to share with President Woolsey, Professor
(afterward President) Dwight, and Professor
George P. Fisher the work of preaching in the
College Chapel, and his services among the
churches were in constant demand. His success
as a speaker and teacher won him an invitation
from the Yale Law School to lecture on forensic
eloquence from 1872 to 1875, and in 1880 Union
Theological Seminary counted him among its in-
structors. The literary fruitage of these years
may be found in The Office and Work of the
Christian Ministry (1869), a work which he later
rewrote and enlarged, issuing it in two vol-
umes, Homiletics (1881) and Pastoral Theology
(1884). Two biographies also came from his
pen: the Life of Rear-Admiral Andrew Hull
Foote (1874), and a Memoir of Henry Armitt
Brown (1880). Later he issued some of his
characteristic utterances under the title Sermons
on Faith, Hope and Love (1891).

During these years his interest in art became
so absorbing that in 1879 he left tne Divinity
School to accept a professorship in the history of
art in the Yale School of Fine Arts. That chair
he held for twenty years, becoming professor
emeritus in 1899. The change of occupation did
not mean a lessening interest in religion; for ac-
cording to his theory art is a great moral influ-
ence, a power by which men may bring in the
reign of truth and of light He soon won high
rank in his new field, proving himself to be an
authority in the subjects which he taught, a wise
and discerning critic, and a true artist in all save
the manual skill which expresses itself in form
and color. Some of his publications in this field
are The Early Renaissance, and Other Essays on
Art Subjects (1892); Greek Art on Greek Soil
(1897); and Great Epochs in Art History
(1901). He delved deeply into Greek thought,
publishing his Notes on Aristotle's Ethics (1882)
and annotating copiously an interleaved copy of
Riddle's edition of Plato's Apology. His broad
interests had led him to publish in 1867 a vol-
ume on Old England; its Art, Scenery and Peo-
ple, of which the twelfth edition appeared in 1893.
His last book was The Reading of Shakespeare
(1906), issued in the last year of his life. Be-
sides these publications he contributed many ar-
ticles to various magazines—the Forum, the Bib-
liotheca Sacra, the New England er, the Congre-
gationalist, and others. He died at his home in
New Haven in his eighty-seventh year. By his
will he left generous bequests to the Yale Foreign
Missionary Society and to the Yale School of

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Fine Arts for the endowment of a chair in archi-
tecture.

[Hist. Record of the Class of 1840, Yale College
(1897) ; Obit. Record Grads. Yale Univ., 1907; Who's
Who in America, 1906—07; Yale Univ. (1900), in the
Universities and Their Sons series, ed, by J. L. Cham-
berlain; Yale Alumni Weekly, Nov. 21, 1906; New
Haven Evening Register, Nov. 15, 1906; meager ma-
terial in article by W. O. Partridge in the Coming Age,
Mar. 1900 ; alumni files of Yale University.]

H.H.T.

HOPPIN, JOSEPH CLARK (May 23,1870-
Jan. 30, 1925), archeologist, nephew of Augustus
Hoppin [q.v.], was born in Providence, R. L, the
son of Dr. Courtland Hoppin and Mary Frances
(Clark) Hoppin. His father died when the boy
was six years old, and in 1878 the family went to
Europe and lived for three years in Stuttgart,
where Hoppin was for a time a student at the
Real-Schule. On his return to America he at-
tended Groton School and Harvard College. At
Harvard he developed the interest in ancient
civilization which determined his later career.
He took his bachelor's degree in 1893; in the
autumn of that year he entered the American
School of Classical Studies at Athens, and in the
following spring he took part in the excavations
at the Heraeum near Argos under the direction
of Prof. Charles Waldstein (later Sir Charles
Walston). In 1894-96 he studied at Berlin and
Munich and took his doctor's degree at Munich,
presenting a dissertation on the vase painter,
Euthymides, published in Munich in 1896. Al-
ready his interest in ancient vase painting had
become dominant, and Dr. Waldstein naturally
assigned to him the task of publishing the vases
and fragments from the Heraeum. On the study
of these he spent a great part of the years 1897
and 1898, being associated in both years with the
School of Classical Studies at Athens and ap-
pointed lecturer on Greek vases for the session
of 1897-98. Although his manuscript was pre-
pared at this time, the actual publication of his
portion of the work did not occur until 1905,
when it appeared in Volume II of The Argive
Herceum, edited by Professor Waldstein.

In 1898 Hoppin returned to America and was
immediately appointed instructor in Greek art
at Wellesley College. After one year there he
was called to Bryn Mawr, where he taught until
1904, when he resigned. He then for several
years made his home in Washington, though in
1904-05 he was again in Athens as professor of
the Greek language and literature in the Amer-
ican School, and in 1910-11, was a member of
the expedition to 'explore ancient Cyrene in
North Africa, under the direction of his life-long
friend, Richard Norton. The outbreak of the
World War found him in Paris, where his ample

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