Morris Hicky Morgan was professor of classical philology

Classical philology

Classical philology is the study of ancient Greek and classical Latin. Classical philology has been defined as "the careful study of the literary and philosophical texts of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds." Greek and Latin literature and civilization have traditionally been considered...

 at Harvard University

Harvard University

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Although he didn't get a classical schooling in Graduate School

Graduate school

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 he would immediately after his graduation be appointed to the teaching staff. After the death of Frederic D. Allen in 1899 he would succeed to the chair of classical philosophy. He was praised by his fellow classicists as interpreter of Vitruvius

Vitruvius

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio was a Roman writer, architect and engineer, active in the 1st century BC. He is best known as the author of the multi-volume work De Architectura ....

. He fell seriously ill on 15 March 1910 while visiting Daniel B. Fearing in New York

New York

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and would die soon after.