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Paul born on August 3, 1857 in Davenport, Iowa, United States, was the son of Daniel Lewis and Maria Antoinette (Merriam) Shorey. His parents moved to Chicago when he was a boy
Shorey received his secondary education at the Chicago High School. He took his A. B. degree at Harvard in 1878. After graduation he studied law in his father's office.
After attending the University of Leipzig (1881 - 82), the University of Bonn (1882), and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1882 - 83), he took his Ph. D. degree in Munich in 1884.
Paul was called to the bar in Illinois in 1880. He practised law for a brief period in Chicago, but not caring for the life went to Europe to pursue his classical studies.
His first academic post in America was at Bryn Mawr College, where he was professor of Latin and Greek from 1885 to 1892. His edition of Horace: Odes and Epodes (1898, 1910) was the direct outcome of one of his courses there.
Coming as a foundingprofessor of Greek at University of Chicago, he was made head of the department in 1896 and remained in that position till 1927. In 1901-02 he was annual associate director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He became professor emeritus in 1927 but was invited to continue his courses and he held classes till the summer of 1933.
He was editor of the periodical, Classical Philology from 1908 to 1934. His first monograph in Platonic studies was his doctoral dissertation at Munich, De Platonis idearum doctrina atque mentis humanae notionibus commentatio (1884).
In his hands a course in Homer or Pindar or Plato was not merely an exercise in translation; it was a study of epic or lyric poetry or of some phase of philosophy.
The best known of his essays, arguing that the movement against the classics in education was a mistake, are "The Case for the Classics" and "The Assault on Humanism", but there are many others.
He gave the Turnbull Lectures on Poetry at Johns Hopkins and the Lane Lectures at Harvard in 1912; the Harris Lectures at Northwestern University in 1916; the Sather Lectures at the University of California (twice); the Lowell Lectures in Boston; and the Martin Lectures at Oberlin. In 1913 he was Roosevelt Exchange Professor at the University of Berlin, and in 1924 he lectured on Aristotle at four of the universities of Belgium.
He died in 1934.
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He never swerved from his devotion to the classics or wavered in his belief that in them the world could find its best literature, its most satisfying philosophy, and its most effective instrument of education.
He often said that knowledge of the subject and some degree of common sense in the organization of courses and the handling of students constituted the only equipment that a teacher needed.
He was convinced that the movement against the classics in education was a mistake, and frequently expressed his views in essays.
He was a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Philological Association (president 1910), the American Institute of Archaeology, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and associo de l'Academie Royale de Belgique.
He had unusual gifts as a public speaker. His knowledge of philosophy, his faculty of keen analysis of philosophic concepts, and his command of Greek were the chief elements in his effectiveness.
Shorey had a rare combination of qualities: he had erudition and yet fine literary appreciation; he was interested in research, but was also a teacher of unusual effectiveness.
In June 1895 he married Emma L. Gilbert of Philadelphia, who survived him; there were no children.