Taught History And Literature: From 1938 to 1940 he taught history and literature at Scripps College, in California; and thereafter taught classics at Wesleyan University, becoming associate professor in 1943. Elected president of Lawrence College in 1944, he proved himself during the ensuing nine years an able administrator, doubling the endowment, raising faculty salaries, erecting new buildings. A Republican, with 71 others he was co-sponsor in 1952 of a book The McCarthy Record, opposing re-election of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. On June 1, 1953 the Harvard Corporation announced his election as president, to succeed Dr. James Bryant Conant.
Educated at Heidelberg, Berlin and Halle, he taught at Dresden until his 39th year, at Berlin in 1862-1869, and then in the Darmstadt Technische Hochschule, where he was professor of German language, literature and history. He wrote an excellent history of German literature (1872; 4th ed., 1882); the novels, Im Haus der Voter, Das Buchstabirbuch der Leidenschaft and Die Prophetenschule; two volumes of dramatic poems (1867-76). His alle-goric tales in verse, Waldmeisters Brautfahrt, 77th ed. (1905), was his greatest and most popular work. It was followed by other lyrics and tales. Consult his autobiography, Siebsig Jahre (1893).
In 1855 J. H. Newman, then rector of the Catholic University at Dublin, called him to the chair of geograph and modern history and later the department of English literature was assigned him. His original works comprise lectures On Subjects of Ancient and Modern History (1859) ; On Subjects of Modern History and Biography (1864) ; On the Life, Writings and Times of Edmund Burke (1869), together with poetry and translations.
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