Edward Kennard Rand

thumb| Edward Kennard Rand FBA (December 20, 1871 – October 28, 1945), also known as EKR, was an American classicist and medievalist. Quotes The study of Latin is therefore a protest both against those educational systems of our day that replace sound discipline with flimsy theory, and against the short-sighted modernists whose eyes cannot discern the contemporary value of the best achievements of the past. Quoted in Percy S. Smith, "Current Events", The Classical Journal, vol. 36, no. 1 (October, 1940), p. 55 External links Category:Historians from the United States Category:Academics from the United States Category:Classical scholars Category:Harvard University alumni Category:University of Chicago alumni Category:Harvard University faculty Category:University of California, Berkeley faculty Category:People from Boston Category:1871 births Category:1945 deaths