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BAIN, Charles Wesley

  • BAIN, Charles Wesley

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Date of Birth
June 24, 1864
Born City
Portsmouth
Born State/Country
VA
Parents
George M. & Willie Frances Cherry B.
Date of Death
March 15, 1915
Death City
Chapel Hill
Death State/Country
NC
Married
Isabel Plummer, 28 Dec. 1891.
EDUCATION

U. Virginia; M.A. U. South (Sewanee), 1895; LL.D. U. South Carolina, 1913.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Tchr., Savannah (GA) Acad., 1885-7; priv. sch., Savannah, 1887-9; joint headmaster, Rugby School (Louisville, KY), 1900-1; first class, master McCabe's University School, (Petersburg, VA), 1889-90, 1891-5; headmaster, Sewanee (TN) Grammar School, 1895-98; prof. anc. langs. & chair dept. South Carolina Coll. (now U. South Carolina), 1898-1910; prof. Gk. U. North Carolina, 1910-5.


DISSERTATION

PUBLICATIONS

"On a Passage in the Trinummus," AJP 10 (1889) 84-85; "Recent Classical Studies in Germany," Sewanee Review 6 (1897) 74-85; "Bacchylides," ibid., 349-59; First Latin Book (New York & Boston, 1898; rev. ed. 1914); 77?*? Seventh Book of Homer's Odyssey (Boston, 1899); The Poems of Ovid: Selections (New York, 1902); ""Oirco? with av in Object Clauses," StPhil 7 (1911) 16-22; The Demonstrative Pronoun in Sophocles (Baltimore, 1913); "Varia Latina," CP 10 (1915) 219-21.


NOTES

Charles Wesley Bain is best known for his introductory Latin text and for his school text of Ovid. A student of Peters and Wheeler at Virginia, he founded his own school in Savannah, GA. The historian of the University of South Carolina called him "one of the most distinguished language professors the institution has ever had." After a break with President S. C. Mitchell, Bain resigned his post and went to Chapel Hill, where he served until his premature death. He read proof for Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar and his own First Latin Book was said by an editor to have been "far more popular than any other book in the Gildersleeve-Lodge Series." His particular interest was Greek syntax and he had special gifts for the presentation of grammatical detail to students. His eulogist in CJ said, "He was in himself a fitting exemplification of the cultural value of the classics."


SOURCES

CJ 10 (1914-5) 373-4; Columbia (SC) State (16 Mar. 1915) 8; D. W. Hollis, The University of South Carolina: Volume II: College to University (Columbia, SC 1956) 195, 213, 247; WhoAm 1:45.


AUTHOR
Ward W. Briggs, Jr. \"ОПΩΣ
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