contributed to _Harvard Studies in Classical Philology_ (founded in 1889 and endowed at his instance by his own class) papers on Latin syntax, prosody and etymology--a subject on which he planned a long work--on Roman archaeology and on Greek religion at the time of the New Comedy. He assisted largely in the founding of Radcliffe College. An able English scholar and an excellent etymologist, he collaborated with Professor George L. Kittredge on _Words and their Ways in English Speech_ (1901), one of the best books on the subject in the language. He wrote clever light verse, including _The Blackbirds_, a comedietta, first published in _The Atlantic Monthly_ (vol. xxxix. 1877); _The Rose and the Ring_ (1880), a pantomime adapted from Thackeray; _The Queen of Hearts_ (1885), a dramatic fantasia; and _Old King Cole_ (1889), an operetta. See the sketch by George L. Kittredge in _Harvard Studies in Classical Philology_, vol. xiv. (1903). pp. 1-17 (also printed in _Harvard Graduates' Magazine_, vol. x., Dec. 1901, pp. 196-201). GREEN RIBBON CLUB, one of the earliest of the loosely combined associations which met from time to time in London taverns or coffee-houses for political purposes in the 17th century. It had its meeting-place at the King's Head tavern at Chancery Lane End, and was therefore known as the "King's Head Club." It seems to have been founded about the year 1675 as a resort for members of the political party hostile to the court, and as these associates were in the habit of wearing in their hats a bow, or "bob," of green ribbon, as a distinguishing badge useful for the purpose of mutual recognition in street brawls, the name of the club became changed, about 1679, to the Green Ribbon Club. The frequenters of the club were the extreme faction of the country party, the men who supported Titus Oates, and who were concerned in the Rye House Plot and Monmouth's rebellion. Roger North tells us that "they admitted all strangers that were confidingly introduced, for it was a main end of their institutions to make proselytes, especially of the raw estated youth newly come to town." According to Dryden (_Absalom and Achitophel_) drinking was the chief attraction, and the members talked and organized sedition over their cups. Thomas Dangerfield supplied the court with a list of forty-eight members of the Green Ribbon Club in 1679; and although Dangerfield's numerous perjuries make his unsupported evidence worthless, it receives confirmation as regards several names from a list given to James II. by Nathan Wade in 1885 (_Harleian MSS._ 6845), while a number of more eminent personages are mentioned in _The Cabal_, a satire published in 1680, as also frequenting the club. From these sources it would appear that the duke of Monmouth himself, and statesmen like Halifax, Shaftesbury, Buckingham, Macclesfield, Cavendish, Bedford, Grey of Warke, Herbert of Cherbury, were among those who fraternized at the