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WHITE, John Williams, educator, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 5 March, 1849. He was graduated at Ohio Wesleyan university in 1868, was professor of Greek and Latin at Willoughby college in 1868-'9, held a similar professorship at Baldwin university in 1869-'71, and from 1871 till 1874 was professor of Greek in the same institution. He visited Europe in 1871-'2, was tutor in Greek at Harvard in 1874-'7, and assistant professor from 1877 till 1884, when, on the death of Professor Evangelinus A. Sophocles, he was appointed full professor of Greek. He received the degrees Ph.D, and A. M. from Harvard in 1877. He is also one of the two editors of "College Series of Greek Authors," is a member of American and foreign learned societies, and member of the committee in charge of the American school of classical studies at Athens. Professor White published "Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles" (1873) ; "First Lessons in Greek" (r876) ; "First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis" and " Selections from Xenophon and Herodotus," as joint editor with William W. Goodwin (1877) ; and "Greek and Latin at Sight" and "Schmidt's Rhythmic and Metric of the Classical Languages" (Boston, 1877) ; "Stein's Summary of the Dialect of Herodotus" (1880) ; and the "Realia of Greek Literature" (1882).
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