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Samuel Derby guided Antioch College in the last years of
Unitarian control of its Board of Trustees. A graduate of Harvard (1866), Derby was previously a Latin instructor
at Dixwell's Latin School of Boston who began his Antioch career as Acting Professor of
Rhetoric and English Literature. Before becoming president in 1877 he taught Latin
language, literature, and history, directed the Preparatory Department, studied at Harvard
and Johns Hopkins , served as Vice President and Acting
President, and began a long term (1877-1921) on the Board of Trustees. In 1881
Antioch closed and Derby resigned, becoming Professor of Latin at The Ohio State University. In 1896 he was named OSU's
first Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. |
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