He taught English history and literature at the College of William & Mary from 1888 to 1928, becoming head of the English department and dean of the faculty, and receiving an honorary LLD in 1921.
[1] He was also concerned with the history of his native Virginia; he frequently spoke at Jamestown and compared Jamestown's Great Charter of 1618[clarification needed] and the assembly of 1619 with the Magna Charta at Runnymede.
"[2] In 1889, he married Margaret Fenwick Farland, of Tappahannock, Virginia.
[4] Hall's Beowulf follows the text closely, with alliteration: Ðá cóm of móre under misthleoþum Grendel gongan· godes yrre bær· mynte se mánscaða manna cynnes sumne besyrwan in sele þám héan· ’Neath the cloudy cliffs came from the moor then Grendel going, God’s anger bare he.
The monster intended some one of earthmen In the hall-building grand to entrap and make way with;