At the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught for almost forty years...Scouten taught scores of undergraduates and graduate students. He was known for his dramatic lecturing style and his intense concern for his students' intellectual development. Never using a teaching assitant even in large classes of over a hundred students, he always graded the papers himself and prided himself on having them ready at the next class. Unlike many professors who cursorily assigned a grade, Scouten gave a running critique in margins. In one graduate seminar, all of the students' term papers were good enough to be accepted for publication in learned journals. Over the years, he supervised an astonishing number of PhD dissertations--fifty-five in all--on a wide range of subjects, but most often on theatre history.

His enormous energy, generosity of spirit, and a joie de vivre made him larger than life itself and forever memorable.