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Theodore Harding Rand

I lived from 1835-1900. I was from Canada, and am in the Americas category.

Theodore Harding Rand was born in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. Rand grew up in Canada and graduated from Acadia college in 1860. Rand chose to teach, and was appointed in that same year to the Chair of Classics at the Provincial Normal School in Truro, Nova Scotia. His first major endevor was to study the world of education, and so soon after his graduation Rand set out to The United States, and then to Great Britain to study common-school education. Rand has since lectured and written on the subject. In 1864 Rand recvied the title of Superintendent of Education for Nova Scotia. Seven years later Rand was appointed the same position in the province of New Brunswick in order to establish a free-school system. Rand received the degree of D.C.L. from Acadia college in 1874.

In 1883 he returned to Acadia College, this time as a professor of history and didactics. Two years after Rand was appointed professor at the Baptist college at Toronto, and from there went to become the president of the Baptist college in Woodstock Ontario in 1886.

Rand's works include Autumnn, The Willow at Grande-Pre, and Glooscap.



Thanks to Appleton's Encyclopedia for bio info

My poetry

  • Glooscap
    Dim name, yet grand, that ever winks serene
    In the red fagot's light, and like a ghost
    14 lines
  • Autumn
    In summer's dreary ear, as suns go by
    Whose yellow beams are dulled with langorous motes,
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • The Willow At Grand-Pré
    The fitful rustle of the sea-green leaves
    Tells of the homeward tide, and free-blown air
    15 lines

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