John Bascom

thumb|John Bascom John Bascom (May 1, 1827 – October 2, 1911) was a professor of rhetoric at Williams College from 1855 to 1874, and was president of the University of Wisconsin from 1874 to 1887. Quotes The cardinal method with faults is to overgrow them and choke them out with virtues. Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 213. The only way to hasten the kingdom is to hasten growth; to hasten work, and that, too, along the very lines in which the "resounding loom of time" is weaving in its various-colored threads. Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 269. External links University of Wisconsin–Madison home page Wisconsin Electronic Reader Category:1911 deaths Category:People from New York (state) Category:Academics from the United States Category:1827 births Category:Williams College faculty