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...Seaton was born at Indianapolis, and was a graduate of Wabash College where he was deeply interested in the study of botany. In 1891 he received the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Indiana and the same year accompanied, as botanist, a scientific expedition to Mexico. In 1892 he was appointed assistant curator at the Gray Herbarium. He leaves unfinished work of a high character; work which gave promise of a distinguished future...
...born March 17. 1871, the son of Rev. A. H. Young D. D. of Newark, N. J. He graduated in 1892 with high honors from Princeton. At college he was a member of Clio Hall and in 1889 he played on the Princeton 'Varsity nine. in his short course at Harvard he did not make a large number of acquaintaces out side his courses and the Story Club, of which he was a member, as he devoted himself to his studies and was naturally of a retiring disposition...
...last number of the Advocate is up to the usual standard except in its editorials. The editorials are not elegant in style, good in sentiment and matter or forcible in diction. Moreover, humor is born not made in a writer and the efforts here to be humorous injure the high tone that the Advocate editorials have hitherto had. In several instances there is evidence of lack of grasp of the subject, a flippancy of tone that is unbecoming and a general character foreign to good advocate editorials. It were best for the writers to recognize that the fault they find...
Walter Scott was born in August, 1771 at a time that may well be called "the meeting of two worlds"; the old world of chivalry and romance was then passing into the modern world, and to Scott it was given to gather up the picturesqueness of the past of Scotland and hand down to us in his poems and his novels, the history of the heroic deeds of the North from the time of Robert Bruce and William Wallace. It has been said that Scott was a dull boy but nothing can be farther from the truth. He was early...
Robert Burns, was born in 1759. He was taken up by the tide of song and melody which was then rising, and carried it to its highest point. He was born poor and all his life had to fight against adversity. He was a hard working plonghman, too poor even to go to school. What little time he could find for himself, he devoted to getting knowledge...