Corson
HIRAM, an American educator; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 6, 1828. He became Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at St. John's College, Annapolis, in 1866, and of English language and literature, rhetoric, and oratory in Cornell University in 1870.
Among his publications are: a "Hand- Book of Anglo-Saxon and Early English" (1871); "An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning" (1886); "Jottings on the Text of Hamlet," "Lectures on the English Language and Literature," "The Aims of Literary Study, "Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton" (1899); etc. He died in 1911.