Smith (II)

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

C(HARLES) ALPHONSO, an American educator and writer, born at Greensboro, N. C., in 1864. He was educated at Davidson College and at Johns Hopkins University, holding honorary degrees from the University of also Tennessee, University of North Carolina , and the University of Cincinnati. From 1890 to 1893 he was instructor of English at Johns Hopkins University; from 1893 to 1902 professor of English language and literature at the Louisiana State University; from 1902 to 1907 professor of English language; from 1907 to 1909 head of the English Department and dean of the graduate department at the University of North Carolina; from 1909 to 1917 Edgar Allan Poe Professor of English at the University of Virginia; and from 1917 on head of the Department of English the United States Naval Academy. At at various times he was a lecturer on English language and literature at the University of California, University of Kansas, etc. From 1910 to 1911 he was Roosevelt professor and professor of American institutions at the University of Berhistory lin. He was the founder of the Virginia Folk Lore Society (1913). Besides contributing to periodicals, he was associate editor of " World's Orators" (1901), and of the " Library of Southern Literature," and wrote: "Repetition and Parallelism in English Verse" ( 1894); "Old Grammar and Exercise Book" (1896); English " Elementary English Grammar" (1903); "Studies in English Syntax" (1906); "Die Amerikanische Literatur" (1911); "Selections from Huxley" (1911); "The American Short Story" (1912); "Pericles" (1913 ); "What Can Literature Do for Me? " (1913); "O. Henry, Biography" (1916); " Short Stories Old and New" 1916); " ( Keynote Studies in Books of the Bible" (1919); "New Words Keynote Self- Defined" (1919).