Word: latin
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...engaged in investigations in the field of Classical Philology, the results of which are scattered through classical journals, transactions, and other periodicals in this country and in Germany. His longest and most important work is on Greek verification in inscriptions. A little work of his entitled "Remnants of Early Latin" is also a valuable contribution to science. He also entirely rewrote Hadley's Greek Grammar. At the time of his death he had on hand an extensive work on the Scholia of Plato; but he needed another year abroad for its completion. He was also engaged in the study...
...death of George Martin Lane, Pope Professor of Latin, Emeritus, which occurred on the morning of Commence ment Day this year, the University lost an honored teacher, who had been longest on its roll of officers, the last on that roll who had taught here in the first half of the century. Professor Lane was born in Charlestown December 24, 1824, and graduated from Harvard College in 1846, a classmate of Professors Child and Norton. In less than six months after taking his Bachelor's degree, early in 1847, he was appointed to take the College work of Professor Charles...
...return from Germany, in 1851, he was made University Professor of Latin, as the successor of Professor Beck, who had held this office since 1832. In 1869 he was made Pope Professor of Latin. He resigned this professorship in 1894, after a continuous service of 43 years. He was then made Pope Professor of Latin, Emeritus; and at the Commencement of 1894 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University. After his retirement he gave valuable instruction in Latin to some of the most advanced students of the Graduate School. His two periods of service...
...little (very little for a man of such wide and varied learning) under his own name, he always put his best scholarship at the disposal of his friends. One of the best instances is the work which he gave to the revision of Lewis's (known as Harper's) Latin Lexicon, which, according to the editors preface, bears throughout the marks of his skill and critical scholarship. One of his smallest works, the pamphlet on Latin Proununciation, has indeed worked a revolution which even the learning of a Munro could never even begin in England...
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