Philologist; born in
Millbury, Mass., Oct. 25, 1825; graduated at Amherst College in 1845, and admitted to the bar of New York in 1850.
He entered the service of Lafayette College in 1855 as an instructor; and since 1856 has been
Professor of English Language and Comparative Philology there.
He has also served the college as adjunct
Professor of Belles-Lettres and English Literature; lecturer on Constitutional and Roman Law, and librarian.
In 1891 he succeeded
James Russell Lowell as president of the Modern Language Association of America.
He received the degrees of
Litt.D., and
D. C.L., from Cambridge University, in 1896, being one of six persons only who have ever been honored with these degrees by
Cambridge.
Professor March was president of the American Philological Association in 1873-74 and 1895-96; of the Spelling Reform Association in 1876-99; and of the Modern Languages Association in 1891-93.
He is author of
The relation of the study of Jurisprudence to the origin and progress of the Baconian Philosophy;
Hamilton's theory of perception and Philosophy of the conditioned;
A method of Philological study of the English language;
A Parser and Analyzer for Beginners;
Comparative grammar of the Anglo-Saxon language;
Anglo-Saxon readers.
He is author of
Latin hymns, etc.
