Edward Parmelee Morris

He was born on September 17, 1853, in Auburn, New York.^[1] He graduated from Yale College in 1874, then moved to Cincinnati where his father was living.^[2]

From 1876 to 1877, he taught Latin and history at Purdue College.^[3] From 1877 to 1879 he taught Latin and mathematics at Lake Forest College.^[3] From 1879 to 1884, Morris taught Greek at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri.^[4][2]

In 1884, he became the Massachusetts Professor of Latin Language and Literature^[5][4] at Williams College and was first allowed a year's leave of absence,^[2] which he spent the universities of Leipzig and Jena.^[1] He returned to Yale as a professor of the Latin language and literature in 1891.^[1] He became a significant influence on the work of Arthur Leslie Wheeler, who became Sather Professor at Princeton.^[6]

Morris received an L.H.D. from Williams in 1904 and a Litt.D. from Harvard University in 1909,^[4] on the inauguration of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell.^[2]

On January 2, 1879, he married Charlotte Webster Humphrey; her father was the Reverend Z. M. Humphrey and a professor at Lane Seminary in Cincinnati.^[2] Humphrey and Morris had four children, Frances Humphrey (born 1880), Edward (born 1885), Margaret (born 1886), and Humphrey (born 1987).^[2] Edward died in infancy. Frances and Margaret both attended Bryn Mawr College.^[2] Morris died on November 16, 1938, in New York City.^[1]

Some of his notable books are:^[7]

• The Mostellaria of Plautus; with explanatory notes (1880)
• The Study of Latin in the Preparatory Course (1886)
• On the sentence-question in Plautus and Terence (1890)
• The Captives and Trinummus of Plautus^[8] (1898)
• On principles and methods in Latin syntax (1901)