Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1963-1966)

MAY MEETING, 1966 1435
APPENDIX A
REGENTS' CITATION OF HONOR
Characterization by Alexander W. Allison
Voted February 11, 1966 (p. 1280) ConierIed May 14, 1966
CHARLES CARPENTER FRIES, Doctor of Philosophy in the Class of 1922; C. C. Fries:
Professor Emeritus of English, Director Emeritus of the English Language Institute, Regents' Citation
and Editor Emeritus of the Early Modern English Dictionary. Professor Fries's of Honor
entire professional life has been devoted to the English language and to persons
desiring to extend their command of it. Holding already professorial appointments
in English and the Teaching of English, he became Editor of the Early Modern
English Dictionary in 1928; and, in 1941, he was appointed first director of the
Institute of which we now celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary. Among his chief
contributions to English-language pedagogy were the freeing of descriptive grammar
from the semantic and conceptual shackles of the Latin School and the tailoring of
instruction in English to the language habits of foreign nationals. A host of former
students, and of students of former students, daily confess his seminal insights in
their scholarship and in their teaching.
The Regents of The University of Michigan would on this happy occasion add
their meed of fitting praise, conferring upon this eminent linguist, lexicographer,
and teacher their Citation of Merit.