This painting, by Kneller, in the National Portrait Gallery, London, is reproduced, with permission, from the print by W. A. Mansell & Co. "In the portraits of the literary worthies of the early part of the last century, Gay's face is the pleasantest perhaps of all." Thackeray. NEW HAVEN: The Yale University Press. London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. MDCCCCXXIII THE OLIVER BATY CUNNINGHAM MEMORIAL PUBLICATION FUND The present volume is the third work published by the Yale University Press on the Oliver Baty Cunningham Memorial Publication Fund. This Foundation was established May 8, 1920, by a gift from Frank S. Cunningham, Esq., of Chicago, to Yale University, in memory of his son, Captain Oliver Baty Cunningham, 15th United States Field Artillery, who was born in Chicago, September 17, 1894, and was graduated from Yale College in the Class of 1917. As an undergraduate he was distinguished alike for high scholarship and for proved capacity for leadership among his fellows, as evidenced by his selection as Gordon Brown Prize Man from his class. He received his commission as Second Lieutenant, United States Field Artillery, at the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, and in December, 1917, was detailed abroad for service, receiving subsequently the Distinguished Service Medal. He was killed while on active duty near Thiaucourt, France, on September 17, 1918, the twenty-fourth anniversary of his birth. |