Thomas Chase (educator)
Thomas Chase (1827-1892) was a United States educator and classical scholar. He was on the faculty of Haverford College and later its president.
Biography[edit]
Chase was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. At nine years of age, he was introduced to Latin; Greek at ten.[1] He graduated in 1848 at Harvard University. Beginning in 1850, he served as a substitute Latin professor at Harvard for a year, and another year and a half as an instructor, and then a tutor.[1]
He studied in Europe from 1853 to 1855, at the University of Berlin and the Collège de France mainly, and as a listener at other universities. He was professor of Greek and Latin at Haverford College from 1855 to 1875. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1864.[2] From 1875 to 1886, he was president of Haverford. In 1887 Chase was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.[3] He was a member of the American committee for the revision of the New Testament, and a delegate to the Stockholm Philological Congress of 1889.
Publications[edit]
- Hellas: Her Monuments and Scenery (1863; at Internet Archive)
- An address on the character and example of President Lincoln (1865; at Internet Archive)
- A Latin Grammar (1882; at Internet Archive)
His “Use of Italics in the English Bible” was part of an 1879 pamphlet issued by the Bible revision committee.[1]
Editions[edit]
- Cicero's Tusculan disputations: book first, the dream of Scipio and extracts from the dialogues on old age and friendship (1866)[4]
- Horace (1884; at Internet Archive)
- The histories of Livy (1882; at Internet Archive)
- Virgil, The Æneid (1884; at Internet Archive)
- Selections from the Satires of Juvenal (1885; at Internet Archive)
Family[edit]
He was a brother of Pliny Chase.[1]
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c d Harold N. Fowler (1930). "Chase, Thomas". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
- ^ American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
- ^ Cicero's Tusculan disputations: book first; the dream of Scipio and extracts from the dialogues on old age and friendship. WorldCat. 1866. OCLC 9472615. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
References[edit]
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
External links[edit]
- "Thomas Chase Papers, 1843-1947". Quaker and Special Collections. Haverford College Library. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
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