American philologist, born at Randolph, MA, on the 15th of July 1854; graduated at Brown University (1875). He spent four years in Germany, after which he taught in Brown, Harvard and Cornell universities. He held the chair of comparative philology in Cornell from 1886 to 1888, to which professorship that of Greek was added in 1888. He was director of the American School for Classical Studies in Athens, Greece (1895–96). He is the author of The Greek Noun-accent (Strasburg, 1885); Introduction to the Study of the History of Language (1890, joint author); and contributed to various magazines and journals.
