Word: fame
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...addition to this suggestion that Harvard men should endeavor to know something about the most important of the professors, there might have been a similar suggestion concerning some of the older worthies who have had some previous connection with the University, and who have acquired such a wide spread fame that any man of average information, whether a Harvard man or not, ought to know something about them...
...Ellsworth, when took second in the mile run: Elcock, who won second in the hammer and shot; Williams, who was first in the high and second in the low hurdles; Sherrill, the winner in the one hundred and two hundred yards runs, and Clark, Wear and Wade of bicycle fame. Curtis '94, is doing some good running. Leavenworth and Avery are the only members of the tug-of-war team left in college...
...Burton Harrison, whose most recent title to fame is the authorship of "The Anglomaniacs" attempts to write an essay in a novelist's style with unfortunate results. Her subject is "Maidens and Matrons in American Society." The maidens receive further attention in a symposium "Shall our Daughters have Dowries?" by C. S. Messinger, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Amelin E. Barr, Mrs. Beecher, Mrs. Livermore and Mrs. Rollins...
...choir sang the following anthems: If ye love Me, keep My Commandments-Tallis (1520-1535). The Lord is my Shepherd-Perceval. Crucifix-Fame...
This phase of thought has its embodiment in Fichte. His was a life of bitter conflicts and higher aims. In early life he was a Spinozist, but the study of Kant brought about a change in him. He became Kant's follower and rose to fame. His doctrine, known as subjective idealism would be better classed as ethical idealism. The lecture closed with a discussion of Fichte's "Vocation...