Word: fame
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Christopher Wren, the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, was a fellow of All Souls, and Froude, the historian, of Jesus College. Dr. Johnson studied at Pembroke, and many of his copybooks and manuscripts are to be seen there. Blackstone, of law fame, was also a student of this college. Magdalen, although not the most celebrated for learning or age, has the most beautiful surroundings, and is perhaps a favorite among the English. Brasenose gets its peculiar name from the fact that one of its halls stands on the site of an old brasen-hus or brewery...
...enthusiastic oarsmen of the University of Pennsylvania are determined to achieve fame in one way if debarred from it in another. Having tried in vain for two years to induce Harvard and Yale to gratify their desire to be seen in good company, they now take their revenge by challenging the whole country to row against them, and threaten that, if no one heeds their manifesto, they will proclaim themselves the national champions. If the bewildered nation fails within the specified sixty days to produce a crew, and thereby gives involuntary color to the Pennsylvanians' pretensions, they might go further...
...greatness of Cambridge, save as a university town, is fast passing away, if indeed its fame has ever been separable from of Harvard. As a city of revolutionary memories Cambridge of course if famous. As for a long time the home of two of the greatest American poets it is everywhere known. But its fame in this last respect certainly, has been principally due to the college, for it was as professors at Harvard that much of the lives of both Mr. Lowell and the late Prof. Long fellow were passed...
...undergraduate can but pause in wonder and question where was Brighton street ? And when the succeeding words are sung celebrating the fame of "Carl's," the similar question, who is Carl ? cannot but arise. Alas, Carl and Brighton street, with something of appropriateness, some will think, have departed from us hand in hand together, and their very names soon will be sounds familiar only to graduates of many years standing...
...University of California has organized a Longfellow Memorial Association. The prominent object of the Association is to "aid in the perpetuation of the name and the fame of Longfellow," and also "to cultivate a close acquaintance with Bryant, Tennyson, Wordsworth, and the other great names of this century...