Walter Goodnow Everett was a professor of Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

, philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

, and natural theology

Theology

Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...

 from 1890 to 1930 at Brown University

Brown University

Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

. Everett House, a freshman hall on campus was named after him. He was head of the philosophy department at Brown from 1896 to 1930, and also served as acting university president while President William H. P. Faunce

William H. P. Faunce

William Herbert Parry Faunce was an American clergyman, educator and the son of Daniel Faunce, born at Worcester, Massachusetts He graduated in 1880 at Brown University , and at 1884 at Newton Theological Seminary, and from 1884 to 1889 was pastor of the State Street Baptist Church of Springfield,...

 made a trip around the world in 1912-13.

• (1923) The Problem of Progress Philosophical Review 32 (2):125-153.
• (1900) The Relation of Ethics to Religion, International Journal of Ethics 10 (4):479-493.