Title
Photograph of Noah Porter of Yale College
Date
Ca. 1864
Description
Noah Porter, a Yale philosopher, was asked by Goodrich to take over Webster dictionaries. Porter initially declined, but the Merriams assured him that the job would require only a few hours a week. What fitted him for the work? According to George Merriam, it was his “fund of general information, his intelligence as to the sources of knowledge, his wise judgment of the fitness of men for various branches of the work, his mental acuteness trained by metaphysics and serviceable for the niceties of language, [and] his swiftness in decision.”
Source
Ex coll. Karolyne & Bryan A. Garner. HHD no. 80