CHARLES

See also:

• EDWIN, AEDUINI
• EDWIN, JOHN (1749–1790)

EDWIN

See also:

• CHARLES EDWIN BENNETT (1858- )
• BENNETT, JAMES GORDON (1794-1872)
• BENNETT, JOHN
• BENNETT, JOHN HUGHES (1812–1875)
• BENNETT, SIR WILLIAM STERNDALE (1816-1875)

BENNETT (1858- )  , American classical scholar, was born on the 6th of April 1858, in 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 schools in Florida (1878-1879), New York (1879-1881), and Nebraska (1885-1889), 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 . Bennett's 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 text-books in " Bennett's Latin Series," he edited Tacitus's Dialogus de Oratoribus (1894), and 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 Theophrastus (1902) .