Word: arnold
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...noble quadrangle of Christ Church, and remember that it was founded by Cardinal Wolsey, and that John Locke, Ben Johnson, Sir Philip Sydney, William Penn, the Duke of Wellington and William E. Gladstone have been among its students. Oriel College reminds us of Sir Walter Raleigh, Bishop Butler, Thomas Arnold and John H. Newman. Corpus Christi once had Coleridge for a pupil, and from University College the ethereal Shelly was expelled. John Wickliff was a fellow of Merton College in 1364, and Frederic W. Robertson and the saintly Helm, the author of the hymn, "From Greenlands lacy Mountains," were students...
...personal influence of teachers, is of far more importance than what of mere knowledge he could gain in larger universities. Can we compare the benefit which ten boys at Rugby derived from their books, with the incalculable good which resulted from contact with their noble head master, Dr. Arnold...
...pervious meeting was adopted. Mr. Nolen, '84, was elected to the office of second vice-president in place of Mr. Codman, '85, and the following gentlemen were elected to constitute the standing committee of five required by the new constitution: Mr. Harris, '84, Mr. Nolen, '84, Mr. Arnold, '85, Mr. Craigin, '85, and Mr. Humphrey, '86. The new constitution also provides for three curators, of botany, of zoology and of mineralogy, and Mr. Sargent, L. S. S., Mr. Parker, L. S. S., and Mr. Humphrey. L. S. S., were elected to those offices in the respective order named...
...last winter. Instead of one lecture from Mr. Gosse, secured by the enterprise of this Society, if the university were able to undertake such matters, it might supplement its regular instruction in English literature by a more extended course by the same distinguished critic and scholar. Or again, Mathew Arnold, when he makes his proposed second visit to America, could be secured to give a course of lectures in the same field before the university. Such lectures would be strictly academic, and would be in the proper line of university work...
...class in English V has decided that the themes of the next four months shall be based upon a study of well-known authors. Selections will be made among such writers as Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, Tnackeray, and Lamb, and the themes must be in some way connected with the works of the authors chosen. DeQuincey has been taken for the December themes. His works will be placed either in the English alcove of the library, or in Sever...