BARNARD, FREDERICK AUGUS

TUS PORTER (1809-1889), American educator; born Sheffield, Ma . He raduated from Yale College in 1828, held the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy in the University of Alabama 1837-48, and afterward of chemistry and natural history until 1854. He taught in the University of Mi i ippi 1854-56, and in the latter year became President of that institution. He left the South on the outbreak of the war, and in 1864 was called to the prestiancy of Columbia College, N.Y. ere he did his most important work, placing the college, which was far from prosperous when he became its head, on a broad university foundation. He was an ardent advocate of co-education, and Barnard College, named after him, owed its foundation chiefly to his efforts. He was a voluminous writer and a member of many learned societies. He resigned as president in 1888.