Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
William Henry Schofield
Professor of Comparative Literature
Centurion, 1915–1920
Proposed by
Hamilton Holt and Wallace C. Sabine
Hamilton Holt and Wallace C. Sabine
born
April 6, 1870
Brockville, Ontario, Canada
Brockville, Ontario, Canada
died
June 24, 1920
Peterborough, New Hampshire
Peterborough, New Hampshire
elected
June 5, 1915
Age forty-five
Age forty-five
buried
All Saints Church,
Peterborough, New Hampshire
Peterborough, New Hampshire
proposer of
Member Photograph Albums CollectionAlbum 8, Leaf 15
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Century Memorial
Intimate command of modern languages, familiarity with their literatures, and personal acquaintance with European scholars, equipped William Henry Schofield in an unusual degreee [sic] for his work as professor of comparative literature in Harvard. He had studied deeply even in such recondite fields as French mediæval literature and Old Norse, and he was one of the American exchange professors whose lectures at Berlin, Copenhagen, and the Sorbonne, between 1907 and 1911, served to give high prestige to American scholarship in Europe. His published works on literature are marked as much by charm of style as by learning and originality.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1921 Century Association Yearbook
