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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 EDWIN BENNETT (1858- )  ,
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American classical scholar, was born on the 6th of
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April 1858, in
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Providence, Rhode Island . He graduated from Brown University in 1878 and also studied at Harvard (1881-1882) and in Germany (1882-1884) . He taught in secondary
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schools in
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Florida (1878-1879), New York (1879-1881), and
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Nebraska (1885-1889), and became professor of Latin in the University of Wisconsin in 1889, of classical
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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
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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
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great importance are his advocacy of " quantitative "
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reading of Latin verse and his Critique of Some
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Recent Subjunctive Theories in vol. ix . (1898) of Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, of which he was an editor . Bennett's Latin Grammar (1895) is the first successful attempt in
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America to adopt the method of the brief, scholarly Schulgrammatik . Besides the Latin
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classics commonly read in secondary courses and other text-books in " Bennett's Latin Series," he edited Tacitus's Dialogus de Oratoribus (1894), and
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Cicero's 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
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Theophrastus (1902) .

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