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] 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]

From 1876 to 1877, he taught Latin and history at Purdue College and 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]

Some of his notable books are:[7]

• The Captives and Trinummus of Plautus[8]
• The Mostellaria of Plautus; with explanatory notes
• On principles and methods in Latin syntax
• On the sentence-question in Plautus and Terence
• The study of Latin in the preparatory course