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

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Professor Perrin is a thorough musician, and while in college he played the organ in the church in New Britain, of which his father was pastor. Since .coming to Adelbert he has been the college organist. Professor Perrin married Luella Perrin, a second cousin, August 17, 1881. Mrs. Perrin was in every respect a true helpmeet, and her death in july, 1889, was most keenly felt by all who had the privilege of her acquaintance. There are two children of this mar- riage-Lee James and Lester 'William-aged seven and ive years. Professor Perrin has contributed papers to the American Journal of Philology and to the Transactions of the American Philological Association, and has published an edition of Ceesar's Civil lVar: New York University Publishing Company, 1889. He has devoted much attention to the study of Homer, and ranks as one ofthe foremost American scholars in that department. He is at present engaged in editing the first twelve books of the Odyssey for the College Series of Greek Authors, published by Ginn Sz Co., Boston. The first four books appeared in 1889, and were received with marked approval. Professor Perrin was for several years a member ofthe Executive Committee ofthe American Philological Association, and one of its Vice-Presidents in 1888-89. A One thing will sulhce to show the feeling of all students of Adel- bert College for Professor Perrin, and thatis the opinion emphatically expressed by more than one of his best pupils, that he is to them the ideal teacher of Greek. 12

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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

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CALENDAR. 1891. - 22, 23 Sept ...... Tuesday, Wednesday ..... 244 Sept .........,.. Thursday ............. ......... 26-29 Nov ....... Thursday-Sunday ......... Examinations for Admission First Term began. Thanksgiving Recess. 24 Dec ............. Thursday ....... ............... W inter Recess begins. 1892. 6 Ian ............. Wednesday ...... ........ 28 Ian ............. Thursday ..... ........ 8 Feb ............. Monday ....... ...,.... 13 Feb ............. Saturday ...... ........ 15 Feb ............. Monday ........ . ..... . 6 April ........... Wednesday ...... ....... 13 June ............ Monday ........ ........ 19 June ............ Sunday ......... ........ 20 June ............ Monday ....... ........ 21 June ............ Tuesday ........................ 22 June ............ Wednesday .................... 23, 24- June ...... Thursday, Friday ......... Winter Recess ends. Day of Prayer for Colleges Examinations begin. First Term ends. Second Term begins. .Junior Exhibition. General Examinations begin Baccalaureate Sermon. Prize Speaking. Meetings of Alumni. COMMENCEMENT. Examinations for Admission Summer Vacation of Thirteen Weeks. 20, 21 Sept ...... Tuesday, Wednesday.. 22 Sept ............ Thursday ...................... 24:-27 Nov ....... Thursday-Sunday ......,. 22 Dec ............. Thursday ........' .............. 13 . .Examinations for Admission .First Term begins. .Thanksgiving Recess. .Winter Recess begins.