Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - I haere a Bishop ki te Whare Wananga o Cornell mai i te 1910 ki te 1913, i whiwhi i te tohu Paetahi me te Tohu Poetry Morrison i te 1913 ka whai tohu Kaiwhakaako Toi i te 1914. Katahi ka hokona e ia nga pukapuka ako mo Ginn &amp; Co, ka uru atu ki te US Cavalry (i te wa i mahi pouri ai ia i raro i a Pershing i roto i te "whakaeke whiu
" i Mexico), he rangatira tuatahi i roto i te US Infantry i te Pakanga Tuatahi o te Ao, a i mahi i roto i te umanga whakatairanga o New York, i mua i te hokinga ki Cornell ki te tiimata ki te whakaako i te 1921 me te whiwhi Ph.D. i te 1926; ko tana tuhinga i runga i nga taakaro a Jules Lemaître. I honoa ia mo tona ao pakeke katoa ki a Cornell, hei tauira, Kappa Alpha Kaiwhakaako mo nga Pukapuka Romance, me te Kaituhi o te Whare Waananga. I te tau 1962, i tuhia e ia te hitori paerewa o te whare wananga, "He hitori o Cornell". I te tau 1962, i whakawhiwhia a Bishop ki tetahi huihuinga, "Studies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature". I te mutunga o tētahi arotake, e whakaatu ana te pukapuka i "te kaha tonu me... te nui haere o te mātauranga i roto i te mātauranga o te reo French baroque (?)".