Case Western Reserve University - Lux / Differential Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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BERNADOTTE PERRIN, Ph. D. PROFESSOR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. ROFESSOR B. PERRIN was born in Goshen, Connecticut, September 15, 1847. His father, the Rev. Lavalette Perrin, D. D., was the pastor of the Congregational church in that town, and a graduate of Yale in the class of1841-0. He was one of the best known ministers of that denomination in the state, and for some years before his death, in 1889, a member of the Yale Corporation. Mr. Perrin's school life began in the district school and country academy, but when he was ten years old his father removed to New Britain, Connecticut, and his son spent the next six years in the graded schools of that borough. The last two years of his prepar- atory course were passed in the Hopkins Grammar School at Hart- ford, under the instruction of Mr. S. M. Capron, well known as an educator and called the Dr. Taylor of Connecticut. In 1865, Mr. Perrin entered the freshman class at Yale, graduating in 1869. Among his classmates were Professors R. B. Richardson of Dart- mouth, H. A. Beers of Yale, H. T. Terry of the University of Tokio, Moses Stuart Phelps of Smith, and President F. A. Scott of Rutgers College. During his sophomore year Mr. Perrin took the first prize in both of the English Prize Competition contests, and all his work was characterized by marked thoroughness and delicacy of finish. His' classmates noted his steady progress, and every one of his recitations has been described as that of a man who had thoughtfully gone over the lesson, giving an account of himself. The result was that at graduation Mr. Perrin received the appoint- ment of a Philosophical Oration. 10

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OTE. Owing to the illness and consequent withdrawal from college of hir. Van Dusen early in the work of editing the RESERVE, the Board has been rc-:organized as follows: . P E. C. PETRIE, Editor-in-Chief, W. N. HERIPERLY, Business Manager, H. LEWIN CANNON, B. S. SANFORD, R. H. STILSON. 9

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After graduation, he taught mathematics in the Hartford High School, under lVIr. Capron, for one year, and in the fall of 1870 en- tered the Yale Theological Seminary. He remained there only a year, and during that time he assisted Professors Hadley and Pack- ard in their college work. The next fall he entered the Graduate Department and took a course in Classical Philology under Profes- ors Whitney, Hadley and Packard-three great names in the annals of American scholarship. Mr. Perrin received the degree of Ph. D. in 1873, his thesis being a comparison of the Choephoree of Aeschylos and the Elektra of Sophokles. He was immediately appointed a tutor in Greek in the college, but resigned that position at the end of a year to become Vice-Principal of the Hartford High School, Here he remained two years, teaching Greek and Latin. In the summer of 1876 he went to Europe and spent five semesters in the universities of Tflbingen, Leipzig and Berlin, besides traveling in Italy and elsewhere. In 1878 he returned to this country and was appointed again a tutor at Yale, but that same year he left New Haven to assume his former position in the Hartford High School, whence he was called in 1881 to become Professor of Greek in Adelbert College. It is an interesting fact that Professor Perrin's academic career has corresponded so closely with that of his predecessor, Professor N. P. Seymour. Both graduated from the Hdpkins Grammar School in Hartford and Yale College, and both were tutors at Yale, principals of the Hopkins Grammar School and professors of Greek in Western Reserve University. Since that time Professor Perrin has made two trips to Europe -one to Germany in the summer of 1887, and one to Greece in the spring of1890. W On this last trip, he was unusually favored in en- joying the companionship in work and travel of Drs. Dorpfeld and Willamowitz, and together they were entertained at Troy by Dr. Schliemann himself. Through Professor Perrin's efforts, the depart- ment of Greek Archaeology in this college is well equipped, and his ripe culture and literary ability make his lectures in this field inter- esting and attractive to a very marked degree. 11