Academic Career
Carpenter became a Harvard instructor in 1888 and assistant professor at MIT until 1893. Carpenter then became a professor and chairman of English rhetoric at Columbia University in New York where he remained for the duration of his life. He died in New York City in 1909 and was the subject of several articles in salutation. A library at Columbia is jointly named in his honor.
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