In the recent sketch of the history of the Boston Advertiser, given in a late issue of that paper, some interesting references were made to certain Harvard professors who have been connected with the paper. We find that Prof. Dunbar, who had been a regular contributor for several years previously, became an associate editor in 1861, and in 1864 became sole editor and part owner. In 1868, on account of impaired health, he withdrew from active service as editor, and in the following year permanently severed his editorial and business connections with the paper, when he accepted the Chair of Political Economy in the college. The first Washington correspondent of the Advertiser was Mr. Adams S. Hill, now Professor of Rhetoric. Mr. Howard M. Ticknor, late instructor in Elocution, was musical critic under Professor Dunbar's management. Harvard graduates have always been leading members of the editorial staff of the paper.
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