 He was able to satisfy the requirements for the first two years of General Seminary in New York by studying the texts and passing examinations.He then graduated from the Seminary after only one year of full-time attendance and immediately left for Germany to enter the University of Leipzig.After an initial year devoted to classical studies, he spent two years studying with Franz Delitzsch, foremost Hebraist of the day, and psychologists Wilhelm Wundt and Gustav Theodor Fechner.