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See also:MARCH, See also:FRANCIS See also:ANDREW (1825– ) , See also:American philologist and educationalist, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:October 1825 in See also:Millbury, See also:Massachusetts. He graduated in 1845 at See also:Amherst, where his See also:attention was turned to the study of Anglo-Saxon by See also:Noah See also:Webster. He was a teacher at Swanzey, New See also:Hampshire, and at the See also:Leicester See also:Academy, Massachusetts, in 1845-1847, and attempted the philological method of teaching See also:English " like Latin and See also:Greek," later described in his Method of Philological Study of the English See also:Language (1865); at Amherst in 1847-1849; at Fredericksburg, See also:Virginia, in 1852-1855; and in 1855 became a See also:tutor at See also:Lafayette See also:College, where he became See also:adjunct See also:professor of belles-lettres and English literature in 1856, and professor of English language and See also:comparative See also:philology—the first See also:chair of the See also:kind established—in 1857. He lectured on constitutional and public See also:law and See also:Roman law in 1875-1877, and also taughtsubjects as diverse as See also:botany and See also:political See also:economy. In 1907 he became professor See also:emeritus. At Lafayette he introduced the first carefully scientific study of English in any American college, and in 1870 published A Comparative See also:Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language, in which its Forms are Illustrated by Those of the See also:Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, See also:Gothic, Old Saxon, Old Friesic, Old Norse and Old High See also:German, and An Anglo-Saxon Reader; he 'vas editor of the " See also:Douglass See also:Series of See also:Christian Greek and Latin See also:Classics," to which he contributed Latin See also:Hymns (1874); he was chairman of the See also:Commission of the See also:State of See also:Pennsylvania on Amended See also:Orthography; and was consulting editor of the See also:Standard See also:Dictionary, and in 1879-1882 was director of the American readers for the Philological Society's (New See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford) Dictionary. He was See also:president of the American Philological Association in 1873-1874 and in 1895-1896, of the Spelling Reform Association after 1876, and of the See also:Modern Language Association in 1891-1893. Among American linguistic scholars March ranks with See also:Whitney, See also:Child and See also:Gildersleeve; and his studies in English, though practically See also:pioneer See also:work in See also:America, are of undoubted value. His See also:article " On See also:Recent Discussions of See also:Grimm's Law " in the Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association for 1873 in large See also:part anticipated Verner's law. With his son, Francis Andrew March, jun. (b. 1863), adjunct-professor of modern See also:languages in 1884-1891 and subsequently professor of English literature at Lafayette, he edited A See also:Thesaurus Dictionary of the English Language (1903).
See Addresses in Honor of Professor Francis A. March, LL.D., L.H.D., delivered at See also:Easton, Pennsylvania, on the 24th of October 1895.
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