John Bascom (May 1, 1827 – October 2, 1911) was a professor of rhetoric at Williams College from 1855 to 1874, and was president of the University of Wisconsin from 1874 to 1887.

Quotes

• The cardinal method with faults is to overgrow them and choke them out with virtues.
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 213.

• The only way to hasten the kingdom is to hasten growth; to hasten work, and that, too, along the very lines in which the "resounding loom of time" is weaving in its various-colored threads.
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 269.

External links

• University of Wisconsin–Madison home page
• Wisconsin Electronic Reader