Word: careers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Supple addressed the union meeting of the religious societies in Harvard 1 yesterday evening, taking as his subject "A Leaf from the Modern Religious History of France." The speaker dwelt interestingly upon the career of Frederic Ozanam, the French philosopher, in his relation to the religious and social activities of his time, and read extracts from his writings...
...without interruption after his graduation, taught successive classes of undergraduates to admire and respect him as a pattern of all that is best in the athletic side of college life, while his breadth of character, and his quiet, steady success in other fields, gave great promise of a useful career in the future...
During his whole professional career he was engaged in investigations in the field of Classical Philology, the results of which are scattered through classical journals, transactions, and other periodicals in this country and in Germany. His longest and most important work is on Greek verification in inscriptions. A little work of his entitled "Remnants of Early Latin" is also a valuable contribution to science. He also entirely rewrote Hadley's Greek Grammar. At the time of his death he had on hand an extensive work on the Scholia of Plato; but he needed another year abroad for its completion...
...Winsor's career has been a notable example of the achievements of which American learning has shown itself capable, and even while mourning his death we may feel inspired by his success to a greater confidence in the future of national culture...
...what sort of man seems to promise the most happiness and serviceableness to himself and to his fellow men. He must have first of all have a body available for the uses of life. This is not indispensable but it is a good sound sign of a promising career. The power of strenuous application, of assiduous mental labor, I count the next in importance. The man who is fresh while others are tired, is sure to win an advantage in the competition of the world. Another mental trait which University life ought always to develop is independent thinking...