1892 and at the South Side Academy from 1894 to 1898. He taught Biblical and Patristic Greek at the University of Chicago starting in 1898.

Upon his return to Chicago in 1900, he again joined the University faculty and rose steadily to become Professor of Biblical and Patristic Greek in 1915. In 1919 he served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis. When his New Testament colleague Ernest DeWitt Burton