[3] In 1890, Slater was appointed an assistant master at Bath College,[3] where he spent seven years teaching the sixth form under the headmastership of T. W.
[1] According to his obituary in The Times, Slater "had just those gifts of stirring a boy's enthusiasm for Homer or Virgil, which were ideally complementary to the severer discipline of the Porson and Shilleto tradition so notably represented and maintained by Dunn".
A keen walker, he tended to teach morning readings of classical texts, followed by walks with students (and other times alone) to Lynmouth, across Badgworthy Valley in Exmoor, and around Dunkery Hill.
[3] He left Bedford College in 1920 to be Professor of Latin at the University of Liverpool, succeeding the eminent classicist John Percival Postgate to that well-paid chair.
[3] He was buried at Thurstaston, a village at the end of a five-mile trek from Hoylake that he enjoyed in his later years.