Thomas Chase (educator)

Chase was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, to Anthony and Lydia (Earle) Chase.^[1] At nine years of age, he was introduced to Latin; Greek at ten.^[2] He graduated in 1848 at Harvard University. Beginning in 1850, he served as a substitute Latin professor at Harvard for a year, and another year and a half as an instructor, and then a tutor.^[2]

He studied in Europe from 1853 to 1855, at the University of Berlin and the Collège de France mainly, and as a listener at other universities. He was professor of Greek and Latin at Haverford College from 1855 to 1875. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1864.^[3] From 1875 to 1886, he was president of Haverford. In 1887, Chase was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.^[4] He was a member of the American committee for the revision of the New Testament, and a delegate to the Stockholm Philological Congress of 1889.

• Hellas: Her Monuments and Scenery (1863; at Internet Archive)
• An address on the character and example of President Lincoln (1865; at Internet Archive)
• A Latin Grammar (1882; at Internet Archive)

His "Use of Italics in the English Bible" was part of an 1879 pamphlet issued by the Bible revision committee.^[2]

Editions

• Cicero's Tusculan disputations: book first, the dream of Scipio and extracts from the dialogues on old age and friendship (1866)^[5]
• Horace (1884; at Internet Archive)
• The histories of Livy (1882; at Internet Archive)
• Virgil, The Æneid (1884; at Internet Archive)
• Selections from the Satires of Juvenal (1885; at Internet Archive)

He was a brother of Pliny Chase.^[2]