Excerpt from Annual Reports of the President and Treasurer of Harvard College, 1887-88 Ernest Young, who died March 2d, 1888, in the 36th year of his age, had just been elected Professor of history, after seven years of service as Instructor and four and a half as Assistant Professor. He was a young man of brilliant parts, who had received thorough training both at home and abroad as student and teacher, and seemed to have before him a long career of eminent usefulness. His early death was a grievous loss to his colleagues and his pupils. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.