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WALKER, Arthur Tappan

  • WALKER, Arthur Tappan

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Date of Birth
June 18, 1867
Born City
Jersey City
Born State/Country
NJ
Parents
Alexander J. & Frances Antill Lewis W.
Date of Death
September 3, 1948
Death City
Lawrence
Death State/Country
KS
Married
Elizabeth Stone, 14 June 1899.
EDUCATION

B.A. NYU, 1889; M.A. Vanderbilt, 1892; Ph.D. U. Chicago, 1898.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Prof. Lat. & Gk. Juniata Coll. (PA), 1888-90; tchng. fell. Lat. Vanderbilt, 1890-92; prof. Lat. & Gk. Emory & Henry Coll., 1892-3; fell. Lat. U. Chicago, 1893-4; instr. Lat., 1894-7; prof. Lat. U. Kansas, 1897-1942; dir. summ. sch., 1906-13; pres. CAMWS, 1908-9; mng. ed. CJ, 1909-32.


DISSERTATION

"The Sequence of Tenses in Latin" (Chicago, 1898); printed (Lawrence, KS, 1899).


PUBLICATIONS

"The Movements of Ariovistus before His Interview with Caesar," CJ 1 (1905-6) 213-20; Bellum Helveticum: A Beginner's Book in Latin by Arthur L. Janes & Paul R. Jenks, with a grammatical appendix by Walker (Chicago, 1906); Caesar's Gallic War (Chicago, 1907); "Caesar or a Substitute?," CJ 7 (1911-2) 234-42; "Sequence or Harmony of Tenses?", CJ 10 (1914-5) 246-51, 291-9; "Facts of Latin Word-Order," CJ 13 (1917-8) 644-57; 14 (1918-9) 404-17; "Where Did Caesar Defeat the Usipites and Tencteri?," CJ 17 (1921-2) 77-86; "Report of the Classical Investigation—A Criticism," CJ 25 (1929-30) 83-92; "Aiming Weapons at the Face—A Sign of Valor," CP 24 (1929) 297-8.


NOTES

Arthur Tappan Walker did much to promote both the energy and independence of classics in the Middle West in the early years of CAMWS, which he helped found, and CJ, which he edited for over 20 years. Significant among his publications are an in-depth critique of the Classical Investigation, and his works on Latin syntax and Caesar. He produced a much-used edition of the Gallic Wars. At Kansas he listed among his former students Tenney Frank. A man of dry wit and warm hospitality, he made significant contributions to the growth of our field and the maintenance of high standards and a multi-faceted and wide-reaching serviceable journal, which today continues many of the traditions begun by Walker.


SOURCES

C/44 (1948-9) 307; NYTimes (14 Sept. 1948) 15; Sch. & Soc. 68 (18 Sept. 1948) 185; WhAm 2:552.


AUTHOR
Ward W. Briggs, Jr.
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