JOHN HENRY WRIGHT. 931 



ceived the degree of Master of Arts from Dartmouth, and after study- 

 ing classical philology and Sanskrit at Leipzig for two years, he re- 

 turned to Dartmouth as Associate Professor of Greek, a position which 

 he held until 1886. He married, April 2, 1879, Mary, the daughter of 

 President Eli Todd Tappan of Kenyon College. In 1886 he became 

 Professor of Classical Philology and Dean of the Collegiate Board at 

 Johns Hopkins University, whence he was called to Harvard in 1887. 

 He went to Athens, Greece, as annual professor at the American School 

 of Classical Studies in 1906-7. He became a Fellow of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1893, was a member of the Council 

 of the Archaeological Institute of America, and President of the 

 American Philological ^Association in 1894. Besides being editor-in- 

 chief of the American Journal of Archaeology from its re-organization 

 in 1897 until 1906, he was an associate editor of the Classical Review, 

 1888-1906, and of its successor the Classical Quarterly from 1907. 

 He was active in the interests of the New England Classical Associa- 

 tion, presiding with wit and tact at its first meeting at Springfield in 

 April, 1906. 



His many monographs and contributions to classical learning can- 

 not all be listed here, but the following are the more important works 

 by which he made himself known to scholars the world over: 



1882. An address on The Place of Original Research in Collegiate 

 Education. 



1886. The College in the University and Classical Philology in the 

 College. 



1886. Translation of Collignon's Manual of Greek Archaeology. 



1892. The Date of Cylon. Although not printed until after the dis- 

 covery of Aristotle's work on the Constitution of Athens, 

 it anticipated correctly the chronology given in that work. 



1893. Herondaea. Valuable studies on the newly discovered 

 papyrus of Herondas. 



1894. Studies in Sophocles. 



1902. Edited " Masterpieces of Greek Literature." 



1904. Present Problems of the History of Classical Literature, an 

 address delivered at the Congress of Arts and Sciences at 

 the St. Louis Exposition. 



1905. Editor of "A History of All Nations from the Earliest 

 times," in 24 volumes. Based in part on the Allgemeine 

 Weltgeschichte of T. Flathe and others. 



1906. The origin of Plato's cave. 



In addition, his work as one of the editors of the classical section of 

 the Twentieth Centurv Textbooks should be mentioned. 



