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HALE, WILLIAM GARDNER (1849- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 834 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HALE, See also:WILLIAM See also:GARDNER (1849- ) , See also:American classical See also:scholar, was See also:born on the 9th of See also:February 1849 in See also:Savannah, See also:Georgia. He graduated at Harvard University in 1870, and took a See also:post-See also:graduate course in See also:philosophy there in 1874-1876; studied classical See also:philology at See also:Leipzig and See also:Gottingen in 1876-1877; was See also:tutor in Latin at Harvard from 1877 to r88o, and See also:professor of Latin in Cornell University from 188o to 1892, when he became professor of Latin and See also:head of the Latin See also:department of the University of See also:Chicago. From 1894 to 1899 he was chairman and in 1895-1896 first director of the American School of Classical Studies at See also:Rome. He is best known as an See also:original teacher on questions of syntax. In The Cum-Constructions: Their See also:History and Functions, which appeared in Cornell University Studies in Classical Philology (1888-1889; and in See also:German version by Neizert in 1891), he attacked See also:Hoffmann's distinction between See also:absolute and relative temporal clauses as published in Lateinische Zeitpartikeln (1874); Hoffmann replied in 1891, and the best See also:summary of the controversy is in Wetzel's Der Streit zwischen Hoffmann and Hale (1892). Hale wrote also The Sequence of Tenses in Latin (1887-1888), The Anticipatory Subjunctive in See also:Greek and Latin (1894), and a Latin See also:Grammar (1903), to which the parts on sounds, inflection and word-formation were contributed by Carl See also:Darling See also:Buck.

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