Joseph M. Bachelor, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American writer and academic
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About Joseph M. Bachelor
- Joseph Morris Bachelor also known as Joseph Morris (May 17, 1887 near Sharonville, Ohio – December 5, 1947 in Hamilton, Ohio) was an American author, poet, editor and educator. Bachelor was educated at Miami University (A.B., 1911) and Harvard University (A.M.
- 1912).
- As an undergraduate at Miami University, he joined a local organization which later became the national fraternity, Phi Kappa Tau.
- He is considered the author of the fraternity's Ritual and wrote the lyrics to its first song, with Joseph W.
- Clokey writing the music.
- After teaching English at Cornell College in Iowa (1913-1917), he worked as an editor for the Century Company in New York City where he was definitions editor of The New Century Dictionary in two volumes.
- He returned in 1927 to teach at his alma mater, Miami University where he remained until his death in 1947.
- He was a popular and rigorous professor teaching Shakespeare and a course he developed called "Words." Upon his death, he bequeathed over 400 acres (1.6 km2) of woodland and streams, including Harker's Run, to Miami University.
- The land is today known as the Bachelor Wildlife and Game Reserve.
- He collaborated with other professors on at least ten English textbooks and edited a series of poetry collections (under his pen name Joseph Morris) in collaboration with St.
- Clair Adams which included poems by Bachelor and Adams. Bachelor fell ill at his Oxford, Ohio home and died in a Hamilton, Ohio hospital on December 5, 1947.
- He was buried in the Bachelor family plot at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati. An academic building on the Miami University campus was named Bachelor Hall in 1979 as a memorial.
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