[Charles Edwin]. American classical scholar, born on the 6th of April 1858, in Providence, RI. He graduated from Brown University in 1878 and also studied at Harvard (18811882) and in Germany (18821884). He taught in secondary schools in Florida (18781879), New York (18791881), and Nebraska (18851889), and became professor of Latin in the University of Wisconsin in 1889, of classical philology at Brown University in 1891, and of Latin at Cornell University in 1892. His syntactical studies, notably various papers on the subjunctive, are based on a statistical examination of Latin texts and are marked by a fresh system of nomenclature; he ranks as one of the leaders of the New American School of syntacticians, who insist on a preliminary re-examination of all available data. Of great importance are his advocacy of quantitative reading of Latin verse and his Critique of Some Recent Subjunctive Theories in vol. ix. (1898) of Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, of which he was an editor. Bennetts Latin Grammar (1895) is the first successful attempt in America to adopt the method of the brief, scholarly Schulgrammatik. Besides the Latin classics commonly read in secondary courses and other textbooks in Bennetts Latin Series, he edited Tacituss Dialogus de Oratoribus (1894), and Ciceros De Senectute (1897) and De Amicitia (1897). He wrote, with George P. Bristol, The Teaching of Greek and Latin in Secondary Schools (1900), and The Latin Language, (1907), and with William Alexander Hammond translated The Characters of Theophrastus (1902). His later publications include Syntax of Early Latin (2 vols., 1910, 1914); New Latin Composition (1912) and Horaces Odes and Epodes (1914, in the Loeb Classical Library). He died on the 2nd of May 1921 at Ithaca, NY. See also Critical and Biographical Introduction to Tacitus.