Wofford College - Bohemian Yearbook (Spartanburg, SC)

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If ■ ' I M 1 ■ :■-.i! ■A i ..vs« vil hlniWlA Wjivm Dr. Charles Forster Smith, emeritus Professor of Greelc in the University of Wisconsin, a native of South Carolina, and a Wofford graduate, passed away during the summer of 1931. Born in Abbeville County in 1852, his first education was received in an old country school which he left to enter Wofford, g-raduating in the Class of 1872. From 1S75 to 1879 he was a member of the college faculty. At Harvard he met Longfellow, and. abroad, as a student in the Universities of Leipzig and Berlin, he won his Ph.D. Doctor Smith ' s career as a teacher of ancient languages, begun at Wofford, continued through a year at Williams College and a dozen years at Vanderbilt. President Charles Kendall Adams, of the L ' niversity of Wisconsin, journeyed to Nashville to induce him to go to that institution, and, beginning in 1894, for 23 years Doctor Smith was Professor of Greek and Classical Philology in the University of Wisconsin. — (From an editorial in The Columbia State .) He was a scholar and a teacher of national reputation and prestige ' ' and it is fitting, indeed, that ve pay him tribute in recognition of learning, of scholarship, and a person- ality saturated with Greek literature, and a taste and feeling moulded bv it. I ,|jfxss■ ' p ™-,!. ; ■;i ).(mi ' m mfKA ' M Sm nm mtust