Thomas Chase (educator)

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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[]

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 1855-1875. 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[]

His “Use of Italics in the English Bible” was part of an 1879 pamphlet issued by the Bible revision committee.[1]

Editions[]

Family[]

He was a brother of Pliny Chase.[1]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Harold N. Fowler (1930). "Chase, Thomas". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  2. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  3. ^ American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
  4. ^ 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[]

  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Chase, Thomas" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

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