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Fred Newton was born on August 20, 1860 in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States, the son of Mary (Bannister) and Harvey D. Scott, a lawyer who was a congressman from Indiana in 1855 and for some years a county judge.
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Fred Newton was born on August 20, 1860 in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States, the son of Mary (Bannister) and Harvey D. Scott, a lawyer who was a congressman from Indiana in 1855 and for some years a county judge.
Fred Newton Scott took the degrees of Bachelor arts, 1884, Master of arts, 1888, and Doctor of philosophy, 1889, at the University of Michigan.
After studies Scott served as library assistant and later as assistant librarian at the University of Michigan, became an instructor in English and for almost forty years was a member of the university faculty. As head of the department of rhetoric, 1903-21, and of rhetoric and journalism, 1921-27, he exerted a wide influence.
He encouraged the establishment of schools of journalism in state colleges, modified the teaching of English composition in colleges through his treatment of the paragraph as the unit of discourse (in Paragraph-Writing, 1891, with J. V. Denny), and was a stimulating teacher of graduate students, with the power of suggesting lines of thought often very original.
He was president of the Modern Language Association of America, 1907; one of the founders and the first president of the National Council of Teachers of English, 1911-13; president of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, 1913, and of the American Association of Teachers of Journalism, 1917. A member of several British learned societies as well, he had a wide acquaintance and a high reputation among foreign scholars.
Upon his retirement in 1927 as professor emeritus, he and his wife lived in Tucson, Arizona; he died in San Diego, California.
Although Fred Newton Scott's distinction rests particularly upon his influence as a teacher, he wrote more than a hundred publications. He edited among other things De Quincey's Essay on Style, Rhetoric, and Language (1891) and Herbert Spencer's The Philosophy of Style (1892); with C. L. Meader, he translated three plays from the Russian of Leonid Andreyeff, Plays (1915). His most ambitious work, done in collaboration with C. M. Gayley, was An Introduction to the Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism (1899), which at the time broke relatively new ground. But his richly suggestive essays on prose rhythms and on his theory of the fundamental distinction between poetry and prose were perhaps more important.
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Modest and extremely reticent, with a grave courtesy, Scott was to many of his students an enigmatic figure, whose preference was always for questioning rather than for arriving at fixed conclusions. He was keenly sensitive and easily wounded, but he had a delicate wit and took great pleasure in good talk. He had some reputation as an after-dinner speaker.
In 1887 Scott married Isadore Thompson, daughter of Prof. Bradley M. Thompson of the law school of the University of Michigan, by whom he had a daughter and two sons. A year after her death in 1922, he married Georgia Jackson of New York City, who with his three children survived him.
