Word: fame
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...McCulloch, Jr., contributes a only other prose article. "A Pupil of Giotte" describes the single masterpiece of an Italian painter, and tells how the artist was so fearful of overshadowing his master's fame that he renounced his profession for the convent...
...What a reward is Washington's! What an influence is his and will be! One mind and will transfused by sympathetic instruction into milions; one character a standard for millions; one life a pattern for all public men teaching what greatness is and what the pathway to undying fame...
Some freshman wished to win immortal fame by having himself lowered from the top of the water tower and painting in orange 150 feet from the ground a large '92 seven feet in length...
...Cambridge is not given up to study, but there is no part of our town that does not feel the influence of the body of scholars that have for so many years given Cambridge its fair fame in the land and the world. It is a fallacy to think that there is but one sort of learning to be honored. The learning of the book and the college, the learning of the forum and the exchange, are all to be prized, and we who live in a university town have a share in each. The atmosphere that surrounds the university...
John Guy Vassar, one of the philanthropists identified with the fame of Vassar College, is one of the happy mortals who survive their own obituary notices. He has very sick for months, and news of his death got several times abroad; but suddenly he has recovered strength rapidly and is now in excellent health...