Arthur Stanley Pease
Arthur Stanley Pease (September 22, 1881 – January 7, 1964) was a
Personal life
Arthur Stanley Pease was born in his grandfather's
I will confess that I am by nature a collector, that I began with marbles and horse chestnuts, advanced to postage stamps, continued with botany and books, and at all times have gathered facts and occasional ideas.[5]
After earning his terminal degree, Pease travelled to Europe and spent most of his time there in Italy and Greece. In 1909, Pease married Henrietta Faxon in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Their only child, Henrietta Faxon Pease, was born July 14, 1912. She grew up and married the pioneering anthropologist and primatologist Sherwood "Sherry" Washburn in 1939. They had two children — Sherwood ("Tuck") and Stan — and at least six grandchildren.[5][6][7][8]
Academic career
Pease attended
He is less of a
George D. Olds, Amherst's ninth president. But, as a distinguished scholar, he fulfills the presidential needs of a small New England college.[9]
Five years later, Pease resigned from the presidency of Amherst College to return to his alma mater again as a Latin professor. At Harvard, he was appointed Pope Professor of Latin in 1942 and was made became Professor Emeritus upon his retirement in 1950.[2][3] During his lengthy academic career, Pease articulated the following philosophy of education:
...from the
graduate school, the aims are threefold: first, to fit us for more successful practice of our respective callings; second, to enrich and refresh our lives with more intelligent and varied avocations; and, third, to render us more helpful in our manifold relations to the community at large.[10]
Pease further expounded on his personal views and habits when he said:
...in lack of sufficient
cranial space for dead storage, I enter (facts and ideas) methodically on 3 x 5 slips of paper. When enough of a kind are amassed, they are outspread, classified, digested, written down, dehydrated, and lo! and article, or more rarely a book, to be pursued by some lone watcher in Czechoslovakia or beside the Bay of Biscay. Still onward, however, boiling down like Aristotle and the maple-syrup makers, a thousand gallons of facts to a half-pint of principles; or, to change the figure, bringing order into a few of life's storage closets, discovering there some garments which still have good wear in them, and persuading my students to wrap this rainment about their intellectual nakedness. All of which, as Augustine says, is "a great task and a difficult, but God is our helper.[5]
Botany
Although a classicist by training, Pease was also "an outstanding amateur field botanist"[2] and "it is Professor Pease's work in New England botany for which he will be especially remembered.[3]
Pease traveled with Merritt Lyndon Fernald on botanical expeditions to Mount Logan in southwestern Yukon, to northern Newfoundland, to Nova Scotia, and to Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec.[2][11] About him Fernald wrote "how, with such a keen interest in plants and their natural habitats, he was lured into classical philology is beyond the comprehension of a mere botanist of more limited horizon."[4] In naming the flowering plant Draba peasei, in Pease's honor, Fernald wrote:
...it is a great pleasure to associate the name of its discoverer, ARTHUR STANLEY PEASE, distinguished classical scholar and keen amateur botanist, (to this plant that) was at first identified by me as D. oligosperma Hook. of the
Rocky Mountain region...[12]
Other plants named after Pease include the
An enthusiastic
Pease also collaborated with Richard Evans Schultes in writing Generic Names of Orchids: their origin and meaning(1963). Among Pease's donations to the Gray Herbarium at Harvard University and the New England Botanical Club was his 12,000 specimen herbarium. [2][14]
Other work
Besides his many botanical articles, Pease published a considerable amount of material on
Much of his personal papers, including correspondence with figures of historical interest and various manuscripts, are now kept by Harvard's Houghton Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[16] Other manuscripts and written materials relating to his life and work — including his correspondence with poet Frederick Goddard Tuckerman — is in the possession of Amherst College Archives and Special Collections.[1]
References
- ^ a b [1] Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
- ^ a b c d e f g "Arthur Stanley Pease". Archived from the original on 2008-07-26. Retrieved 2008-08-11. Harvard College: Arthur Stanley Pease (1881–1964)
- ^ a b c d e f g [2] Archived 2017-08-25 at the Wayback Machine University of North Carolina Herbarium
- ^ a b [3] Archived 2017-08-25 at the Wayback Machine Fernald, Merritt L. 1951. Arthur Stanley Pease, the Botanical Explorer. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 60: 11–21
- ^ a b c d [4]"Faculty Minute on Arthur Stanley Pease, 1881–1964", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 69, (1965),published by the Department of the Classics, Harvard University
- ^ [5] University of California
- ^ [6] San Francisco Chronicle
- ^ [7] New York Times
- ^ [8] Time magazine (Monday, Jul. 04, 1927)
- ^ [9] Amherst College: Amherst's Philosophy
- ^ "The Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec, Canada, James Franklin Collins, Arthur Stanley Pease, Kenneth Mackensie, Ludlow Griscom, Carroll W. Dodge, Lyman B. Smith, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Botany, Field work". Archived from the original on 2008-07-26. Retrieved 2008-08-13. Harvard University: Exploring The Gaspé Peninsula, Summer 1923
- ^ [10] Archived 2017-08-25 at the Wayback Machine Fernald, M. L. (1934) Draba in temperate northeastern America. Rhodora 36: 298–299
- ^ [11] Archived 2008-07-08 at the Wayback Machine Randolph Mountain Club
- ^ "Library of the Gray Herbarium". Archived from the original on 2008-08-07. Retrieved 2008-08-13. Harvard University: Library of the Gray Herbarium
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Pease.
- ^ [12] Archived 2007-08-28 at the Wayback Machine Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
External links
- Arthur Stanley Pease at the Database of Classical Scholars
- Works by or about Arthur Stanley Pease at Internet Archive