N. C. (Nymphas Corey) Hanks (3 November 1882 - 26 January 1955) was a scholar of the Classics and popular lecturer in the first half of the twentieth century.
He credited a doctor's sharing of Edmund Vance Cooke's poem "How Did You Die?"
He particularly attributed his success to Byron W. King (of King's Oratory) for his success, and his professor John C. Swensen for helping him get make contacts at Stanford, and David Starr Jordan for "the best lectures I ever heard.
"[3] Hanks made his living travelling tens of thousands of miles, delivering his lectures.
He was also considered remarkable for memorizing tens of thousands of words from the Classics.