Sunday, October 02, 2022
He Made His Students Cry
William S. Anderson, "GORDON, Arthur Ernest," in Ward W. Briggs, Jr., ed., Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994), pp. 226-228 (at 227):
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Arthur Gordon believed strongly in the importance of precise knowledge of Latin grammar, which was of course bound up with his epigraphical specialty; and he was legendary at Berkeley for his strict teaching, which reduced men as well as women to tears at times. Nevertheless, his students came to recognize the value of that precision and therefore were eventually grateful for his teaching.
