- James Main Dixon
James Main Dixon (1856-1933) was an American teacher and author, born at
Paisley ,Scotland . He graduated at St. Andrews University in 1879 and was appointed scholar and tutor ofphilosophy there in the same year.Academic career
He was
professor of English and secretary of theImperial College of Engineering , Tokio,Japan , from 1879 to 1886, when he was called to the Imperial University of Japan in the same capacity. There he taught Hidesaburo Saito, one of the first Japanese writers of English Grammar, andNatsume Sōseki , a famous novelist and ex-university professor, who disliked his style of teaching English literature.From 1892 to 1901 he was professor of
English literature at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. In 1903-04 he was president of Columbia College, Milton,Oregon . He was professor of English literature at theUniversity of Southern California from 1905 to 1911, when he was transferred to the chair of Oriental studies andcomparative literature . In 1906 he became editor of the "West Coast Magazine ".Writings
He compiled a "Dictionary of
Idiom atic EnglishPhrase s" (1891) and wrote: "Twentieth Century Life ofJohn Wesley " (1902); "Matthew Arnold ," in "Modern Poets and Christian Teaching" (1906); and "A Survey of Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century" (1907). In 1920, he wrote, "The Spiritual Meaning of Tennyson's "In Memoriam" and "Manual of Modern Scots".In 1908, he received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from
Dickinson College .External links
* [http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/h/honorarydegrees/ Dickinson College honorary degrees (lists death date)]
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