Hammond Lamont

Hammond Lamont had been barely three years a member of The Century when at the age of forty-six [sic: forty-five] he was cut down unexpectedly and untimely by disease that had scarcely more than announced itself. Born in a near county of the state, he had the earliest education of a cultivated clergyman’s family life, graduated with the highest distinction from Harvard and with renown as a college journalist. Steeped in English literature and thoroughly trained to use his mother tongue subtly and effectively, he continued his college activities in a wider sphere. From his desk as a journalist in Seattle, he was called as instructor to Harvard, and thence to Brown, where he remained until he became here the managing editor of a foremost evening paper. Loyal to the truth, he was loyal to true men and was beloved by them; in educational matters his words were weighty and commanded attention; for the right as the righteous see it he battled without reserve. Called to various honorable professorships, he preferred his first and latest career. In these rooms he was gay, witty, congenial, at home among his kind.

William Milligan Sloane
1910 Century Association Yearbook