William Gardner Hale

William Gardner Hale (1849–1928) was an American classical scholar who was professor of Latin at Cornell University from 1880 to 1892, and then became professor of Latin and head of the Latin department of the University of Chicago. From 1894 to 1899 he was chairman and in 1895-1896 first director of the American School of Classical Studies at Rome. He is best known as an original teacher on questions of syntax.

Carl Darling Buck (1866–1955) was an American philologist. 1892 he became professor of Sanskrit and Indo-European comparative philology at the University of Chicago and was later named Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Comparative Philology. His Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages was called by Calvert Watkins "a treasure house of words, word origins, expressions, and ideas..., a monument to a great American scholar.” Upon his death, the New York Times reported that Buck spoke 30 languages.