Hunt

the most notable of his publications. He was
secretary of the committee of the American So-
ciety of Civil Engineers which designed the rail
section bearing the society's name, and of the
"A. Section" of the American Railway Associ-
ation; he inaugurated what was afterwards
known as the "Special Inspection," which in-
volved thorough supervision both of the manu-
facture of the steel and of the rolling of the
rails; and in 1921 he proposed a new rail section
and the nick-and-break test for soundness of each
ingot In 1912 he was awarded the John Fritz
Medal, and in 1923 the Washington Award, in
both instances for his early contribution to the
manufacture of steel. He was a member of many
technical societies in the United States and in
England. There has been established in his mem-
ory the Robert W. Hunt Medal, and also the
Robert W. Hunt Prize awarded annually by the
American Institute of Mining and Metallurgi-
cal Engineers. On Dec. 5, 1866, he married
Eleanor Clark of Ecorse, Mich., who survived
him. There were no children. His death oc-
curred in Chicago, and he was buried in Troy,
N.Y.

[Trans. Am, Inst. Mining and Metallurgical Engi-
neers, vol. LXIX (1923) ; Trans. Am. Soc* Mechanical
Engineers, vol. XLV (1923) ; Who's Who in America,
1922-23 ; Chicago Daily Tribune, July is, 1923; infor-
mation as to certain facts from Mrs. R. W. Hunt and
R. W. Hunt & Company.] R. C C—y.

HUNT, THEODORE WHITEFIELD (Feb.
19, i844-Apr. 12, 1930), author, professor of
English at Princeton, was born at Metuchen, N.
J., the son of the Rev. Holloway Whitefield and
Henrietta (Mundy) Hunt. He was descended
from Thomas Hunt who resided in Stamford,
Conn., in 1650. After preparing at the Irving
Institute, Tarrytown, N. YM he graduated from
the College of New Jersey (later Princeton) at
the head of his class in 1865. On the day of his
arrival at Princeton he saw the members of the
class of 1861 bidding farewell to each other, some
to join the Confederate army, others the Union.
The year after his graduation he taught in the
Edgehill School, Princeton, and after attending
Union and Princeton Theological seminaries was
licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Eliza-
beth. Appointed by McCosh in 1868 as tutor in
English at the College of New Jersey, he won in
the following year the Boudinot fellowship in
belles-lettres and philosophy, the first university
fellowship established there. Deciding definitely
upon an academic career, he pursued studies
chiefly in Old English at the University of Ber-
lin from 1871 to 1873. On his return he became
adjunct professor of rhetoric and English litera-
ture at the college, and in 1881 full professor.

Hunt

He was the first chairman of the department of
English, holding this position until his retire-
ment in 1918, after fifty years of service under
the administrations of Maclean, McCosh, Pat-
ton, Wilson, and Hibben. In 1882 Hunt married
Sarah Cooper Reeves of Camden, N. J. She
died in 1906. The last twelve years of his life he
spent as professor emeritus in Princeton, still
actively interested in all the affairs of the uni-
versity.

With Marsh of Lafayette, Hunt was among
the pioneers in the introduction of Old English
studies into the curriculum of the American col-
lege. In 1883 he edited Caedmorts Exodus and
Daniel as Volume II of Ginn's Library of Anglo-
Saxon Poetry, on the basis of Grein's text, which
went into several editions and was widely used
His interests were by no means confined to the
older period of the language as evidenced by the
long list of his publications ranging from Caed-
mon to Swinburne. His critical writings were
cast in the formal molds of a somewhat abstract
rhetoric, but whenever he touched upon ethical
values in literature, his own rich humanity en-
livened the formalism of his style. One of his
best pieces of criticism is his Ethical Teachings
in Old English Literature (1892). His publi-
cations include : The Principles of Written Dis-
course (1884) ; Representative English Prose
and Prose Writers (1887) ; Studies in Literature
and Style (1890) ; American Meditative Lyrics
(1896) ; Literature, Its Principles and Problems
(1906); English Literary Miscellany (1914);
Timely Topics (1921); besides numerotts re-
views and articles, and papers read before the
Modern Language Association. His long life
was spent almost entirely in Princeton, and he
was held in affectionate regard by the graduates
of Old Nassau as a link between the old and the
new Princeton. Recognized in his youth by
McCosh as a valuable lieutenant in his task of
renovating the College of New Jersey after the
war, Hunt later did much to make die precep-
torial system introduced by Woodrow Wilson
a signal success in his own department, by rally-
ing under his wise and kindly leadership the
group of younger English scholars brought by
Wilson to the university.

[Sources include: Princeton TJmv, archives ; Prwce»
ton Alumni Weekly, May 30, 1930; the P*faeto**sm>
Apr. 18, 1930; Who's Wko in America, iŁ*S-J9J T.
B, Wyman, Gened. of the $am* and Femify ef H#*t
(1862-63); N. Y. Times, Apr. 13. i93O> personal
recollections.] J.B*S*

HUNT, THOMAS STERRY (Sept. 5,
Feb. 12, 1892), chemist and geologist, the son of
Peleg and Jane Elizabeth (Sterry) Hunt, was
born at Norwich, Conn. He prepared to stody

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