Cover for a 1994 edition of Bennett's New Latin Grammar

Charles Edwin Bennett (April 6, 1858-1921) was an American classical scholar and the Goldwin Smith Professor of Latin at Cornell University. He is best remembered for his book New Latin Grammar, first published in 1895 and still in print today. April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... 1858 (MDCCCLVIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Classics, particularly within the Western University tradition, when used as a singular noun, means the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of Greek and Roman culture during the time frame known as classical antiquity. ... Goldwin Smith (August 13, 1823-June 7, 1910), was a British historian and journalist. ... Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... This is about the university. ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Bennett graduated from Brown University in 1878 and also studied at Harvard (1881-1882) and in Germany (1882-1884). He taught in secondary schools in Florida (1878-1879), New York (1879-1881), and Nebraska (1885-1889), and became professor of Latin in the University of Wisconsin in 1889, of classical philology at Brown University in 1891, and of Latin at Cornell University in 1892. His syntactical studies, notably various papers on the subjunctive, are based on a statistical examination of Latin texts and are marked by a fresh system of nomenclature; he ranks as one of the leaders of the New American School of syntacticians, who insist on a preliminary re-examination of all available data. Nickname: Beehive of Industry, The Renaissance City Official website: http://www. ... Brown University is an Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Area  Ranked 22nd  - Total 65,794 sq mi (170,451 km²)  - Width 162 miles (260 km)  - Length 497 miles (800 km)  - % water 17. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... Official language(s) English Capital Lincoln Largest city Omaha Area  Ranked 16th  - Total 77,421 sq. ... Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public university located in Madison, Wisconsin. ... Classical scholarship, also known as classical philology or classics, is the study of ancient Greece and Rome. ...

Of great importance are his advocacy of quantitative reading of Latin verse and his Critique of Some Recent Subjunctive Theories in vol. ix. (1898) of Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, of which he was an editor. Bennetts Latin Grammar (1895) is the first successful attempt in America to adopt the method of the brief, scholarly Schulgrammatik. Besides the Latin classics commonly read in secondary courses and other text-books in Bennetts Latin Series, he edited Tacitus's Dialogus de Oratoribus (1894), and Ciceros De Senectute (1897) and De Amicitia (1897). He wrote, with George P. Bristol, The Teaching of Greek and Latin in Secondary Schools (1900), and The Latin Language (1907), and with William Alexander Hammond translated The Characters of Theophrastus (1902). Gaius Cornelius Tacitus Publius (or: Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c. ... Marcus Tullius Cicero (IPA: ;) (January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC) was an orator and statesman of Ancient Rome, and is generally considered the greatest Latin orator and prose stylist. ... Statue of Theophrastus Theophrastus, a native of Eressos in Lesbos born c. ...

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External link

• New Latin Grammar at Project Gutenberg