Clayton Morris Hall was born at Ruxton, Maryland, September 24,
1896. From 1908 to 1914 he was prepared for college at the Boys’ Latin
School, Baltimore. In the autumn of 1914 he entered the College of
Arts and Sciences of the Johns Hopkins University, whence he received
the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1918. During 1918-1919 he was in
the United States Army. In the autumn of 1919 he began graduate work
in Latin, Classical Archaeology, and Greek in the Johns Hopkins
University, and held, from 1920 to 1922, a Johns Hopkins Scholarship.