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Margaret C. Waites
Margaret C. Waites, a young white woman, wearing a mortarboard cap
Margaret C. Waites, from the 1905 yearbook of Radcliffe College
BornOctober 5, 1883
Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedMarch 15, 1923 (aged 39)
South Hadley, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation(s)Classical scholar, college professor

Margaret Coleman Waites (October 5, 1883 – March 15, 1923) was an American classical scholar, head of the Latin department at Rockford College from 1909 to 1914, and head of the Latin Language and Literature department at Mount Holyoke College at the time of her death in 1923.

Early life and education

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Waites was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the daughter of Alfred Waites and Kate Sanderson Waites. Her father was born in England. She graduated from Worcester Classical High School in 1902 and Radcliffe College in 1905.[1] She completed a master's degree at Radcliffe in 1906, and earned her Ph.D. in 1910. Her thesis was titled "The Dramatic Art of Euripides" (1905).[2] She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[3]

Career

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Waites was head of the department of Latin at Rockford College from 1909 to 1914.[3] She spent the 1912-1913 academic year at the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, supported by a fellowship from the American Association of Collegiate Alumnae.[4] She taught at Mount Holyoke College beginning in 1914, and was head of the Latin Language and Literature department for about a year.[3][5] She wrote the Latin lyrics of a commemoration ode, sung by a choir at the twentieth anniversary of Mary E. Woolley's presidency at the college in 1921.[6] Also in 1921, she attended the Classical Association conference in England, and wrote about the conference for the Boston Transcript.[7]

Publications

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Waites' work was published in journals including Harvard Studies in Classical Philology,[8] Classical Philology,[9] The Classical Weekly,[10][11] American Journal of Archaeology,[12][13][14] and American Journal of Philology.[15]

  • "Some Features of the Allegorical Debate in Greek Literature" (1912)[8]
  • "The Form of the Early Etruscan and Roman House" (1914)[9]
  • "The Performance of the Phormio, in Latin, at Mount Holyoke College" (1917)[10]
  • "The Meaning of the 'Dokana'" (1919)[12]
  • "Satura Redivivia" (1919)[15]
  • "The Nature of the Lares and their Representation in Roman Art" (1920)[13]
  • "The Deities of the Sacred Axe" (1923)[14]
  • "Latin an End in Itself" (1923)[11]

Personal life and legacy

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Waites died in 1923, at the age of 39, from pneumonia, a month after her mother's death.[16] "She was a scholar in the real meaning of the term, creative, constructive," said Mary E. Woolley of Waites at the memorial service held on campus. "Patient and sympathetic with the slow student, she was inspiring and stimulating with the brilliant student".[17] She left $27,000 and her library to Radcliffe College,[18] and $1000 to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in her will.[19] Her ghost is said to haunt the Cabot Library Suite at Harvard University, to protect the books.[20][21]

References

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  1. ^ Radcliffe College, Class of 1905 (1905 yearbook): 58.
  2. ^ Waites, Margaret Coleman. "The Dramatic Art of Euripides: With Special Reference to the Plays Discussed by Dr. AW Verrall in 'Euripides the Rationalist'" (1905).
  3. ^ a b c Mount Holyoke College, "Department of Latin", Llamarada (1918 yearbook): 40, 72.
  4. ^ "The College Women". Syracuse Herald-Journal. 1912-03-16. p. 5. Retrieved 2024-10-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Collection: Classics Department records". Mount Holyoke and Hampshire College archives. Retrieved 2024-10-04.
  6. ^ "Phi Beta Kappa News and Notes". The Phi Beta Kappa Key. 4 (9): 537–538. 1921. ISSN 2373-0331.
  7. ^ "Dr. Margaret C. Waites Writes of When Good Classicists Get Together". Transcript-Telegram. 1921-11-09. p. 18. Retrieved 2024-10-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ a b Waites, M. C. (1912). "Some Features of the Allegorical Debate in Greek Literature". Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 23: 1–46. doi:10.2307/310446. ISSN 0073-0688.
  9. ^ a b Waites, Margaret C. "The form of the Early Etruscan and Roman house" Classical Philology 9, no. 2 (1914): 113-133.
  10. ^ a b Waites, Margaret C. (1917). "The Performance of the Phormio, in Latin, at Mount Holyoke College". The Classical Weekly. 10 (13): 104–104. ISSN 1940-641X.
  11. ^ a b Waites, Margaret C. (1923). "Latin an End in Itself". The Classical Weekly. 16 (17): 134–134. doi:10.2307/4388472. ISSN 1940-641X.
  12. ^ a b Waites, Margaret C. "The Meaning of the 'Dokana'" American Journal of Archaeology 23, no. 1 (1919): 1-18.
  13. ^ a b Waites, Margaret C. (1920). "The Nature of the Lares and Their Representation in Roman Art". American Journal of Archaeology. 24 (3): 241–261. doi:10.2307/497689. ISSN 0002-9114.
  14. ^ a b Waites, Margaret C. "The deities of the sacred axe" American Journal of Archaeology 27, no. 1 (1923): 25-56.
  15. ^ a b Waites, M. C. (1919). "Satura Rediviva". The American Journal of Philology. 40 (3): 308–316. doi:10.2307/289271. ISSN 0002-9475.
  16. ^ "College News". Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly: 46. April 1923.
  17. ^ "Memorial Service for Dr. Margaret C. Waites". The Springfield Daily Republican. 1923-03-18. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-10-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "'Harvard Women' at Radcliffe Commencement". Transcript-Telegram. 1924-06-19. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-10-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "S. P. C. C. District Recipient of $1000". The Morning Union. 1923-03-28. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-10-04 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "FM's Campus Ghost Tour". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 2024-10-04.
  21. ^ "Happy Halloween". Harvard University. Retrieved 2024-10-04.
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