Professor of Comparative Literature
Centurion, 1915–1920
Born 6 April 1870 in Brockville, Ontario, Canada
Died 24 June 1920 in Peterborough, New Hampshire
Buried All Saints Church
, Peterborough, New Hampshire
Proposed by Hamilton Holt and Wallace C. Sabine
Elected 5 June 1915 at age forty-five
Proposer of:
Century Memorial
Intimate command of modern languages, familiarity with their literatures, and personal acquaintance with European scholars, equipped William Henry Schofield in an unusual degreee [sic] for his work as professor of comparative literature in Harvard. He had studied deeply even in such recondite fields as French mediæval literature and Old Norse, and he was one of the American exchange professors whose lectures at Berlin, Copenhagen, and the Sorbonne, between 1907 and 1911, served to give high prestige to American scholarship in Europe. His published works on literature are marked as much by charm of style as by learning and originality.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1921 Century Association Yearbook
