Identifier: menofprogressbio00her (find matches)
Title: Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Herndon, Richard Williams, Alfred M. (Alfred Mason), 1840-1896 Blanding, William F
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Publisher: Boston, New England Magazine
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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rcester Academy for asimilar length of time. In 1838, after a yearsstudy at home, mostly without a teacher, with occa-sional help from the Rev. Mr. Atkinson of Millville,he entered Brown University, where he at onceattained high rank in his class, and was graduatedas valedictorian in 1842. After graduation he en-gaged in the work of private instruction, but at theopening of the Providence High School in 1843 hebecame one of its teachers. He was Senior Masterfrom September 1846 until .August 1853, when heresigned and went to Europe for study and travel.After a years study at the universities of Bonn andBerlin, he received the degree of Doctor of Philos-ophy at Bonn, being the first American to receivethe degree at that university. He then spent onesemester at the University of Goettingen, and duringthe summer of 1855 traveled in Germany, France,Switzerland, Italy, Greece and England. On hisway to Greece he received notice of his appoint-ment to the Greek chair in Brown L^niversity, and
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^yrtyi<yv:^ hi-CAJlyfE^-nyL ^^-<^c/ MEN OF PROGRESS. 179 began his work in the following September. Twicehe has had leave of absence for a year to revisitEurope. Professor Harkness labors have not beenconfined to the class-room. He has lectured oneducation in different parts of Rhode Island andelsewhere, and has held many positions of respon-sibility and trust. He was president of the FranklinLyceum in 1849, ^d of the Rhode Island Alpha ofthe Phi Beta Kappa from 1871 to 1873. He wasone of the founders of the American PhilologicalAssociation, one of its Vice-Presidents in 1869, andPresident in 1875-1876. He is a member of theArchaeological Institute of America, and in 1881was a member of the first committee appointed toconsider the expediency of establishing an AmericanSchool of Classical Studies at Athens, of whichschool he has been a member of the managing com-mittee from its establishment in 1882 to the presenttime. Professor Harkness has given special atten-tion to the method

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