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Smith, Frederick Danesbury was born on August 21, 1887 in Keighley, Yorkshire, England. Son of Addyman and Margaret (Ackroyd) Smith.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER I EARLY POLITICAL COMMISSIONS Draco 624(?) B.C. In the early history of the Grecian states, it is almost universally true that the work of general political reform was entrusted to single individuals.1 As a rule the person so distinguished was an influential citizen and almost invariably a member of the nobility. For example, Zaleukos was delegated by the Locrians to draw up a legal code; Charondas performed a similar service for the city of Catana; Andromadas of Rhegium was invited by the Thracian Chalcidaeans to settle their social and political problems and to codify their laws. The history of Athens furnishes equally noteworthy examples of this practice. For Attica in the early seventh century, like other citizen-communities of the Greek world, experienced the upheaval of social and political reform. The nobles for half a century had been the governing class, and the political system of this aristocracy had tended to crush the masses. The Eupatridae appropriated all the benefits of the state and enjoyed every means of prosperity, while the middle class, the small proprietors, became constantly poorer, and the poor became slaves, crushed by a burden of debt secured by their own person. The entire political and social situation, as well as the fundamental reason for reform, is expressed in a brief sentence of Aristotle's Constitution of Athens: ovdtvds yip &s tlirtiv irbyxo-vov yLtTtxovTts.1 At Athens, as elsewhere, the struggle for political liberty manifested itself in an insistent demand for written laws and definite principles upon which to base the administration of justice. The distinctive privilege which the nobles had always enjoyed was the exclusive knowledge and administration of the laws. They were, therefore, open to the charge of ex...
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Smith, Frederick Danesbury was born on August 21, 1887 in Keighley, Yorkshire, England. Son of Addyman and Margaret (Ackroyd) Smith.
AB, Stetson U., 1909; Doctor of Philosophy, Stetson U., 1916; postgraduate, U. Montpellier, France, 1919.
Assistant professor Latin, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio., 1910; instructor Greek, Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin, 1911; instructor Greek and Latin, Bradley Polytechnic Institute, Peoria, Illinois, 1912-1913; fellow in Greek, University of Chicago, 1914-1915; instructor in Greek, University of Chicago, summer 1920; instructor classical language and literature, U. North Dakota, 1916-1918; assistant professor, U. North Dakota, 1919; assistant professor general literature, Southern Methodist U., Dallas, 1920-1921; associate professor, Southern Methodist U., Dallas, 1922; professor, head department, Southern Methodist U., Dallas, from 1923; acting dean College Arts and Sciences, Southern Methodist U., Dallas, 1937-1940; dean instruction, Southern Methodist U., Dallas, 1940-1958; emeritus college dean, Southern Methodist U., Dallas, from 1958.
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With American Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919. Member American Association of University Professors, Modern Language Association, Texas Council Church-Related Colls. (past president), Association Texas Colls.
(past president), Conference Academy Deans Southern States (chairman 1955), Masons, Town and Gown Club, Eta Sigma Phi, Pi Gamma Mu, Phi Alpha Theta.
Married Fannie Elizabeth Putcamp, August 30, 1922.