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Suplee's Trench on The Study of WordsEntry/Object ID
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SUPLEE, Thomas Danly (su-play), educator, b. in Philadelphia, 17 April, 1846. He was graduated at Princeton in 1870, and studied at Union and Princeton theological seminaries and at the Protestant Episcopal divinity-school in Philadelphia. He became professor of Latin in Shattuck school, Faribault, Minn., in 1876, vice-rector of St. Augustine college, Benicia, Cal., in 1877, headmaster of Trinity school, Tivoli-on-Hudson, N. Y., in 1879, headmaster of Harcourt place school, Gambier, Ohio, in 1882, and rector of Courtland place school, Lakewood, N. J., in 1885, which post he still holds.
He has published "Frank Muller, or Labor and its Fruits" (Philadelphia, 1869); " Pebbles from the Fountain of Castalia," poems (1870) ; " Riverside : a Romance " (Princeton, 1871) ; " Plain Talks " (Trenton, 1872) ; " Life of Ephraim Dod Saunders, D. D., Founder of the Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia " (Philadelphia, 1873) ; and has edited " Trench on the Study of Words " (New York, 1878) ; " Life of Theodore Bland Pryor, First Mathematical Fellow of Princeton College " (San Francisco, 1879) ; and " Hand-Book of Civil Government under the Constitution of the United States " (Philadelphia, 1883). Mr. Suplee is preparing a life of Richard Realf (q. v.), and editing his poems.
The original Trench on the Study of Words is a series of lectures. The lectures give an insight into the English view of their dominance of the "civilized" world over the non-Western "savages". I wonder how many young minds were shaped by this philosophy.Collection
Benicia School CollectionPublication Details
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Extensive additions by: Suplee, Thomas D, Trench, Richard ChenevixDate Published
1878
