Short, Charles

A.M. (Harvard College, Cambridge, Ma ., 1849), LL.D. (Kenyon College, Gambier, O., 1868), Episcopalian, layman; b. at Haver hill, Ma ., May 28, 1821; graduated at Harvard College, Cambridge, Ma ., 1846; taught cla ical schools in Roxbury, Ma ., and Philadelphia; was president of Kenyon College, Gambier, O., and profe or of intellectual and moral philosophy, 1863-67; and since 1868 has been profe or of Latin in Columbia College, New-York City. He is a director of the American Oriental Society, and was a member of the New-Testament Revision Company. He has made numerous contributions of a critical character to reviews and other periodicals, including a series of elaborate articles in The American Journal of Philology on the revision of St. Matthew's Gospel; and the e ay "on the order of words in Attic-Greek prose" prefixed to the American edition of C. D. Yonge's English-Greek Lexicon, New York. With Dr. C. T. Lewis he edited and enlarged E. A. Andrews- Freund's Latin Dictionary, 1879.