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...Butcher, after graduating as Senior Classic and Chancellor's Medalist from Cambridge in 1873, was appointed lecturer at Oxford. Since 1882 he has been professor of Greek at Edinburgh. He has also served as a member of the Scottish Universities Commission and of the more recent Royal Commission on University Education in Ireland. As a writer, Dr. Butcher is well known for his prose translation, with Mr. Andrew Lang, of Homer's "Odyssey," for his volume of essays entitled "Some Aspects of Greek Genius" and for his more ambitious work, "Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine...
...first of the series of lectures provided for by the gift of Gardiner M. Lane '81, will be given in the spring by Dr. S. H. Butcher, until, recently professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Butcher's general subject will be on some topic connected with Greek literature, but the individual subjects of his six lectures have not yet been announced. The lectures will be given in the Fogg Lecture Room on the following dates: Monday, March 28; Thursday, March 31; Monday, April 4; Friday, April 8; Monday, April 11; and Thursday, April...
...Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was the Senior Classic and Chancellor's Medallist in 1873 and held a fellowship in 1874. He was later elected, without examination, to an Extraordinary Fellowship at University College. Oxford, where he remained as lecturer until 1882, when he accepted a professorship at Edinburgh. Dr. Butcher was a member of the Scottish universities commission from 1889 to 1896, and served on the royal commission on university education in Ireland in 1901. He is well-known in this country through his writings, which include a prose translation of the Odyssey, compiled with the co-operation...
...first series of the lectures provided for by the gift of Gardiner M. Lane '81, will be given in the spring by Dr. S. H. Butcher, until recently Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. As Dr. Butcher will not arrive in this country until some time in March, the exact dates of his lectures cannot yet be definitely announced. His subjects will be connected with Greek literature, or Greek history. Dr. Butcher is well known in this country through his writings, among which are a series of essays entitled, "Some Aspects of the Greek Genius," "Aristotle's Theory...
...session of the conference, while the afternoons were given up to athletic sports and recreation. At 11 o'clock in the mornings and 8 o'clock in the evenings, platform addresses were made by such men as Rev. J. R. Campbell of London, England, Rev. W. F. McDowell of Edinburgh, Scotland, John R. Mott, Robert E. Speer, and Dr. Campbell Morgan. There were also open air services on Round Top at 7 o'clock in the evening, at which able speakers presented instances of various opportunities for Christian work in professions outside the ministry...