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GREENOUGH, JAMES BRADSTREET (1833-1901)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 550 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GREENOUGH, See also:JAMES BRADSTREET (1833-1901) , See also:American classical See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:Portland, See also:Maine, on the 4th of May 1833. He graduated at Harvard in 1856, studied one See also:year at the Harvard See also:Law School, was admitted to the See also:Michigan See also:bar, and practised in See also:Marshall, Michigan, until 1865, when he was appointed See also:tutor in Latin at Harvard. In 1873 he became assistant See also:professor, and in 1883 professor of Latin, a See also:post which he resigned hardly six See also:weeks before his See also:death at See also:Cambridge, See also:Massachusetts, on the rrth of See also:October 1901. Following the See also:lead of See also:Goodwin's Moods and Tenses (186o), he set himself to study Latin See also:historical syntax, and in 187o published Analysisof the Latin Subjunctive, a brief See also:treatise, privately printed, of much originality and value, and in many ways coinciding with Berthold Delbriick's Gebrauch See also:des Conjunctivs and Optativs in See also:Sanskrit and Griechischen (1871), which, however, quite over-shadowed the See also:Analysis. In 1872 appeared A Latin See also:Grammar for See also:Schools and Colleges, founded on See also:Comparative Grammar, by See also:Joseph A. See also:Allen and James B. Greenough, a See also:work of See also:great See also:critical carefulness. His theory of cum-constructions is that adopted and See also:developed by See also:William See also:Gardner See also:Hale. In 1872–1880 Greenough offered the first courses in Sanskrit and comparative See also:philology given at Harvard. His See also:fine abilities for advanced scholarship were used outside the classroom in editing the Allen and Greenough Latin See also:Series of See also:text-books, although he occasionally contributed to Hariard Studies in Classical Philology (founded in 1889 and endowed at his instance by his own class) papers on Latin syntax, See also:prosody and See also:etymology—a subject on which he planned a See also:long work—on See also:Roman See also:archaeology and on See also:Greek See also:religion at the See also:time of the New See also:Comedy. He assisted largely in the See also:founding of See also:Radcliffe See also:College. An able See also:English scholar and an excellent etymologist, he collaborated with Professor See also:George L.

Kittredge on Words and their Ways in English Speech (1901), one of the best books on the subject in the See also:

language. He wrote See also:clever See also:light See also:verse, including The See also:Black-birds, a comedietta, first published in The See also:Atlantic Monthly (vol. xxxix. 1897); The See also:Rose and the See also:Ring (188o), a See also:pantomime adapted from See also:Thackeray; The See also:Queen of See also:Hearts (1885), a dramatic See also:fantasia; and Old See also:King See also:Cole (1889), an operetta. See the See also:sketch by George L. Kittredge in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. xiv. (1903), pp. 1-17 (also printed in Harvard Graduates' See also:Magazine, vol. x., Dec. 1901, pp. 196-201).

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