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CHARLES EDWIN BENNETT (1858- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 740 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:EDWIN See also:BENNETT (1858- )  , See also:American classical See also:scholar, was See also:born on the 6th of See also:April 1858, in See also:Providence, Rhode See also:Island . He graduated from See also:Brown University in 1878 and also studied at Harvard (1881-1882) and in See also:Germany (1882-1884) . He taught in secondary See also:schools in See also:Florida (1878-1879), New See also:York (1879-1881), and See also:Nebraska (1885-1889), and became See also:professor of Latin in the University of See also:Wisconsin in 1889, of classical See also: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 See also: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 See also:great importance are his advocacy of " quantitative " See also:reading of Latin See also:verse and his Critique of Some See also:Recent Subjunctive Theories in vol. ix . (1898) of Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, of which he was an editor . See also:Bennett's Latin See also:Grammar (1895) is the first successful See also:attempt in See also:America to adopt the method of the brief, scholarly Schulgrammatik . Besides the Latin See also:classics commonly read in secondary courses and other See also:text-books in " Bennett's Latin See also:Series," he edited See also:Tacitus's Dialogus de Oratoribus (1894), and See also:Cicero's De Senectute (1897) and De Amicitia (1897) . He wrote, with See also:George P . See also:Bristol, The Teaching of See also:Greek and Latin in Secondary Schools (1900), and The Latin See also:Language (1907), and with See also:William See also:Alexander See also:Hammond translated The Characters of See also:Theophrastus (1902) .

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