HALE, WILLIAM GARDNER American classical scholar, was born on Feb. 9, 1849, in Savannah, Georgia. He graduated from Harvard university in 187o and did graduate work there and at Leipzig and Goettingen ; after a tutorship at Harvard he was professor of Latin at Cornell university from 188o to 1892, when he became professor of Latin and head of the Latin department of the University of Chicago. In 1919 he retired as professor emeritus. From 1894 to 1899 he was chairman, and in first director, of the American School of Classical Studies at Rome. He is best known as an original teacher on questions of syntax. The Cum-Constructions: Their History and Functions, which appeared in Cornell University Studies in Classical Phi lology (1887-89), involved him in a controversy with Hoff mann, best summarized in Wetzel's Der Streit zwischen Hoffmann and Hale (1892) . Hale also published The Sequence of Tenses in Latin (1887-88) ; The Anticipatory Subjunctive in Greek and Latin (in Chicago University Studies in Classical Philology, 1895) ; a Latin Grammar with C. D. Buck (19o3) ; The Manu scripts of Catullus (1908) ; and various pamphlets on methods. He was associate editor of the Classical Review (1895-1907) and of the Classical Quarterly after 1907, and president of the Ameri can Philological Association (1892-93).