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Edwin Almiron Greenlaw
B. H. Sanborn & co., 1912
English literature
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Greenlaw was born on April 6, 1874, in Flora, Illinois, the first son and child of Thomas Bretwer and Emma Julia (Leverich) Greenlaw. On his father's side he was descended from William Greenlaw, a "local preacher" on Deer Island, Maine, then a part of Massachusetts, to which he had emigrated from Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1767; on his mother's, from William Leverich, a Puritan minister who accompanied a group of settlers that sailed from England in 1633, landed in Salem, Massachusetts, and then proceeded to Dover, New Hampshire. Thomas Greenlaw was a superintendent of schools and the founder and proprietor of Orchard City College in Flora.
Education
Edwin received his early education at home and graduated from high school in 1890, one year after his entrance. For eleven of the next thirteen years he taught in Orchard City College, teachers' institutes, Northwestern University's academy, and, as an instructor in pedagogy, in its college of liberal arts. While teaching at Northwestern, he studied three years there and four at the University of Chicago. He had one year of uninterrupted study at Illinois College, and a final one at Harvard. Northwestern granted him a bachelor's degree in 1897 and a master's a year later; Harvard, a master's in 1903 and a doctorate in 1904.
Career
After a year at Northwestern as instructor in English, Greenlaw went to Adelphi College, Brooklyn, in 1905 as head of the department of English, and remained there from 1905 to 1913. During this period he published articles on Spenser and Elizabethan allegory that established his reputation as an investigator, and he prepared several successful college texts. In 1913 he was called to the University of North Carolina and the following year was made head of the English department. He conceived of it as in part "an experimental laboratory, " and with the aid of those he added to the staff he introduced innovations that attracted wide attention and more or less imitation elsewhere. In 1914 he became managing editor of Studies in Philology, the first number of which under his supervision appeared in January 1915. Formerly it had published at irregular intervals results of research by members of the faculty; Greenlaw developed it into one of the foremost journals in its field - a self-sustaining quarterly with three-fourths of its contributions from outside the university. Perhaps his main service, however, was as dean of the graduate school, 1919-1925. Among his innovations were an administrative board for raising requirements for teachers and students, an appointments bureau, an annual Bulletin of Research in Progress, and seminars conducted by distinguished scholars, organized in advance. He also gave support to the publication of a journal of the social sciences and the establishment of a University Press, of which he became an incorporator and governor. Along with his administrative duties he published numerous articles on Spenser and other subjects and edited, with collaborators, two high-school anthologies, one of which, Literature and Life (4 vols. , 1922-1924), he considered his most important contribution to the art of teaching. In 1925 he was called to the newly created William Osler Professorship of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University. Here, again, he combined traditional teaching methods with devices of his own designed to stimulate curiosity and investigation. He drew able men to his staff, and the registration in his department rose from one of the smallest to one of the largest. Soon after his arrival at Johns Hopkins he became editor-in-chief of Modern Language Notes, and after two years, an advisory editor. He established the Johns Hopkins Monographs of Literary History and wrote the first two volumes - The Province of Literary History (1931), a statement of the broad principles upon which the literary historian bases his investigations, and Studies in Spenser's Historical Allegory (1932), an illustration of the application of those principles. With Rockefeller Foundation aid, he organized a Spenser Research Unit to prepare a variorum edition of the works of Spenser. Greenlaw served on both the college section and the university committee of the curriculum commission appointed by the National Council of Teachers of English, on the advisory committee of the Field Service Fellowships for Study in French Universities, on the executive committee of the British and American Association of Teachers of English, on the committee on research of the American Council of Learned Societies, and on the board that administers the Guggenheim fellowships. For five years he was chairman of the Modern Language Association's general research committee. Greenlaw died on September 10, 1931.
Achievements
Greenlaw was a noted educator, remembered for his published works.
Greenlaw was of medium height and thick-set. He had brown hair and eyes, heavy features, a firm mouth, and a resolute chin. He was by nature kind and genial, though his circle of friends was narrowed by his industry. His talk was pithy; his humor, dry; his satire tended to sarcasm rather than irony, and was devoid of cynicism. He was devoid, also, of affectation, and his sentiment never welled over into sentimentality. He combined with the finest type of inductive teaching a great capacity for inspiring devotion in students.
Connections
On September 1, 1898, Greenlaw married Mary Elizabeth Durland of Flora, by whom he had three children.