Ernest Carroll Moore
| Ernest Carroll Moore | |
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Moore in 1909
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| 1st Provost of the University of California, Los Angeles | |
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In office 1919–1936 |
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| Succeeded by | Earle Raymond Hedrick |
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| Born | 1871 Youngstown, Ohio |
| Died | 3 January 1955 (aged 83) Los Angeles, California |
| Spouse(s) | Dr. Dorothea Rhodes Moore |
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University Professor University President |
Ernest Carroll Moore (1871–1955) was an American educator. He co-founded the University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California.
Moore was born in 1871 in Youngstown, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio Normal University in 1892, where he also received an LL.B. in 1894. He then received a master's degree from Columbia University in 1898. He later received an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
While at university, he taught in grammar schools in Mississippi. He later taught at the University Settlement Society of New York and at Hull House in Chicago, where he worked with Jane Addams (1860–1935). He was a member of the California State Board of Charities and Corrections from 1903 to 1910.
He started his academic career as a professor of philosophy and education at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught from 1898 to 1901. From 1901 to 1906, he was an instructor, followed by assistant professor of education, and in 1905, director of the summer sessions. From 1906 to 1910, he became superintendent of schools in Los Angeles. In 1910, he taught philosophy at Yale University. From 1913 to 1917, he taught philosophy at Harvard University. A lifelong Hellenist, "he was wont eloquently and lovingly to read long passages from Aristotle or Plato; and once I chanced to pass his desk before he had closed his books (which he carried in a Harvard green bag). I was curious to see his translation because it varied slightly from the Jowett which I had been following as he read. It was not a translation, but the text in Greek! We had been hearing, without realizing it, a beautiful sight translation." Moore's influences included not only Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle but contemporary American philosophers such as William James, Josiah Royce (for whom he named UCLA's Royce Hall) and John Dewey (under whom he studied at Chicago).
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