FRIEZE, Henry Simmons, American edu cator: b. Boston, 15 Sept. 1817; d. Ann Arbor, Mich., 7 Dec. 1889. He was graduated from Brown University in 1841, was instructor there from 1841-45, conducted the grammar-school connected with the university 1845-54, and from 1854 until his death was professor of the Latin language and literature in the University of Michigan, of which in 1869-71, 1880-82 and 1887-88 he was the acting president. He was a pioneer in the teaching of Latin on more ad vanced lines, laying more stress on the inter pretation of Latin texts as literature than as illustrations of grammatical rules. He was also an advocate of the elective in place of the compulsory system, and the originator of the system by which graduates of preparatory schools approved by the university are admitted on the strength of their diploma without ex amination, a system which has been copied by almost all the important universities in this country. In every direction he did much to
promote the interests of the university, being chiefly responsible for the establishment of its school of political science and its school and museum of art; also obtaining for it a State appropriation of $75,000 and an important library in political science. He published an edition (1860) of the '/Eneid,' and (1867) of the 'Ars Rhetorica'; and 'Giovanni Dupre' (London 1886). Consult Angell, J. B., 'A Memorial Discourse on the Life and Services of H. S. Frieze' (Ann Arbor 1890) ; Butter field, C. W., 'H. S. Frieze' (in Magazine of Western History Vol. V, p. 254, Cleveland 1886) ; Kelsey, F. W., 'H. S. Frieze' (in Nation, Vol. L, p. 8, New York 1890).