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John Carew Rolfe

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John Carew Rolfe, Ph.D. (1859-1943) was an American classical scholar, son of William J. Rolfe, born in Newburyport, Mass. He graduated from Harvard in 1881 and from Cornell (Ph.D.) in 1885. He taught at Cornell (1882-85), at Harvard (1889-90), at the University of Michigan, and at the University of Pennsylvania. He was professor in 1907-08 at the American School of Classical Studies in Rome. In 1910-11, he was president of the American Philological Association.