Word: autocrat
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...Holmes delivered a poem at the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of King's Chapel, last Wednesday. No allusion was made in it of Princeton, so that probably the college will not be entertained with a spicy controversy between the venerable autocrat and President McCosh...
...McCosh received plenty of encouragement to-day. The college town was crowded with Alumni and other friends of the institution, who wished to attend the funeral of Dr. Hodge. Without exception they supported Dr. McCosh in the position he has taken, and if the ears of the Autocrat did not burn to-day, there's no dependence to be placed in the old superstition. - N. Y. Times...
...regret exceedingly that our recent celebration should have caused any feeling of bitterness in any of the invited guests present; that our Autocrat, the most genial of men, and, surely, the most delicate of satirists, should have been deemed the offender; and that the one to whom offense has been given is Princeton's honored head. We understand that Dr. McCosh is aggrieved over the stanza which we print in another column, over the fact that no Princeton representative received an honorary degree, and over Dr. Brooks' discourse of Sunday night last...
...intellectually equal to his tyrant; that his true place is as a leader, not as a follower. He sees that, although physical force may be on the other side, the government ought to be for the benefit of the people and not merely for the glory of the autocrat, and that it is his privilege to stand up for these principles, to fight for them, to suffer for them, like Cromwell or Sir John Eliot. He is the impersonation of the noble side of Puritanism; he lacks only its religious bigotry. He is the true hero of the poem even...
...Washington University a novel but exceedingly interesting and successful method is pursued in the study of the English language and literature. The professor rarely delivers a lecture on the subject, but occupies a position similar to that of the "Autocrat" or "Professor" in Holmes' charming "Breakfast Table" series. Easy discussions are carried on between the professor and the members of the class and among the members themselves, the professor simply retaining the right of exercising the functions of leader and critic. In studying an author or a period, the professor assigns to each student some special feature of the subject...