The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Shorey, Paul

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SHOREY, shō'rĭ, Paul, American educator: b. Davenport, Iowa, 3 Aug. 1857. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1878, and was admitted to the Chicago bar in 1880. He was professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College 1885-92, resigning in the latter year to fill a similar chair at the University of Chicago. He was professor in the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 1901-02, and was appointed by Columbia University Roosevelt professor in the University of Berlin 1913-14. He was managing editor of, and a contributor to, Classical Philology from 1908. He published ‘De Platonis Idearum Doctrina’ (1884); ‘The Idea of Good in Plato's Republic’ (1895); ‘The Odes and Epodes of Horace’ (1898; revised ed. with Laing, 1910).