teachers and encourage the selective hiring of men. (When female teachers complained about this, Harper replied that they should be glad they earned as much as his wife's maid.) The ensuing dispute contributed to the organizing of the Chicago Teachers Federation, the precursor to the Chicago Teachers Union. In 1896, Harper assisted Lydia Moss Bradley in founding Bradley Polytechnic Institute in Peoria, Illinois. Now known as Bradley University, Harper served as its first president. Death and legacy Harper died on January 10, 1906, of cancer at age 49. He and his wife are interred at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel on campus at the University of Chicago. William Rainey Harper College, a community college located in Palatine, Illinois, honors him. He is also the namesake of Harper High School and Harper Avenue in Chicago. An elementary school in Cleveland is named for him as well. Published works Introductory Hebrew Method and Manual (1886) An Inductive Greek Method (1888) (co-written by William E. Waters) An Inductive Latin Method (co-written by Isaac Burgess) Elements of Hebrew Syntax By an Inductive Method (1888) An Introductory New Testament Greek Method (1889), (co-written by Revere Franklin Weidner) Eight Books Of Caesar's Gallic War, with Herbert Cushing Tolman (American Book Company, 1891) Young Folks Library: Leaders of Men or History Told in Biography (Editor-1891) The Foreshadowings of the Christ The Prophetic Element in the Old Testament The Priestly Element in the Old Testament An Inductive Greek Primer (1893) (co-written by Clarence Castle) Xenophon's Anabasis Seven Books (1893) Religion and the Higher Life (1904) The Prophetic Element In The Old Testament: An Aid To Historical Study For Use In Advanced Bible Classes (1905) A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Amos and Hosea (1905) The Biblical world, Volume 53 (1919) Inductive Bible Studies; Samuel, Saul, David and Solomon See also Sherwood Eddy Notes References External links Biography of William Rainey Harper at the William Rainey Harper College web site Flyer from the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago regarding the establishment of the William Rainey Harper Memorial Fund. Chicago, March 1, 1906 from the American Memory collection at the Library of Congress Guide to the William Rainey Harper Papers 1872-1938 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center Guide to the University of Chicago Office of the President, Harper, Judson and Burton Administrations Records 1869-1925 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center 1856 births 1906