George F. Hoar.

The article profiles former U.S. senator and American Antiquarian Society (AAS) member George Frisbie Hoar. The author notes Hoar's comments regarding the benefit of learning the Greek language to improve public speaking abilities as well as Hoar's efforts to translate the work of author Thucydides. Hoar's skills as a public speaker are noted. Hoar promoted the restoration of property at William and Mary College that had been destroyed during the U.S. Civil War and supported the return of a manuscript by former Plymouth colony governor William Bradford to the government of Massachusetts.