Word: antiquarianism
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...remembered the Benedictine monastery at Fort Augustus, at the southern and deepest end of the lake. There they found jovial, garrulous 83-year-old the Right Rev. Sir David Hunter Blair, Bart. Sir David is more than a British baronet. He is a onetime captain of Scottish militia, an antiquarian, author of five books of memoirs, a Benedictine monk and titular Abbot of Dunfermline. Abbot Sir David has been an Abbot Emeritus of Fort Augustus since 1917, but he has lived on Loch Ness for 50 years, still spends most of his time at the monastery...
...willingness to hear and consider the unanimous sentiment of the undergraduate body, but also reveals the determination of the authorities to avoid, wherever possible, reactionary methods of discipline and intolerable instances of police control. In the face of this type of administration, Harvard will never be accused of antiquarian methods of running its own house or of failing to live up to its promise of progressive liberality in all its dealings...
Died. Montague Rhodes James, 73, British educator and classicist, since 1918 Provost of Eton College; after long illness; in Eton, England. Respected among scholars for his Bible studies, his wider fame rested on his best-selling antiquarian ghost stories. His paragraph in Who's Who was 14 lines longer than his nearest competitor, Nicholas Murray Butler...
...position of the new pump as first planned, without any bearing on the old location, was naturally very disconcerting to the more antiquarian-minded Alumni, but thanks to the interest of Mr. Durant, the Business Manager, and Mr. Johnson, in charge of the Maintenance Department, much time has been spent in locating the old well, so as to place the pump in exactly the same position...
...well itself will not be disturbed or hurt in any way, the pump will be a faithful replica of the old one in form and position, and both the modern and antiquarian groups should be more than satisfied. John P. Brown