Arthur Stanley Pease, Classicist, Dead at 82

Arthur Stanley Pease '02, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, Emeritus, died early yesterday at Valley Head in Concord at the age of 32.

PPease taught at Harvard from 1905 to 1909 and from 1932 to 1950. He was president of Amherst College from 1927 to 1932.

Pease was a leading scholar of Vergil and Cicero. His monumental work, a critical edition of Cicero's De Natura Deorum, appeared after his retirement.

In addition to his classical studies, Pease was a distinguished botanist. His chief botanical work, Vacular Flora of Coos County, New Hampshire, was based on field studies carried on near his home in Randolph, N.H.

He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Sherwood Washburn of Berkeley, Calif, and by two grandsons.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in Memorial Church.