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Edward Kennard Rand

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Edward Kennard Rand FBA (December 20, 1871 – October 28, 1945), also known as EKR, was an American classicist and medievalist.

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  • 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
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