Word: fame
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Holmes's deservedly great reputation in his profession was equalled and even exceeded by his fame as a writer of both prose and verse. While in college, he contributed largely to the Register, one of the forerunners of the Advocate. His first brilliant piece was the poem he delivered at the Phi Beta Kappa dinner after his return from Paris. The Atlantic Monthly first brought his name prominently before the public as the author of the "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," which was received with great favor. Since then his success has been uninterrupted...
...numbers, wealth, and intellectual resources, not merely an advance along old and conspicuous lines; but a transformation of nature and spirit, a new birth of university life. President Eliot formed here, at his accession, many survivors of a group of men of distinguished talents and learning, who gave wide fame to the institution, and had striven in its Faculty for a generation to lift it to the higher and freer plane of activity on which alone true scholarship can be found. But in spite of all that had been accomplished at that time, and of all that...
...part of the "King;" "Nat" Wilson of the senior class, who has made a reputation by his work in the junior society plays, will be "Queen Katharine of Russia." Thomas S. Arbuthnot will be Kyrle Bolyn, the leader of a wandering players' troupe; Frank S. Butterworth, of football fame, is to be the High Adjutant General of the English Navy, and Richard Worthington, another senior who made a hit in last year's play, is to fill the part of Cardinal Wolsey. Thomas Dyer of the junior class is to be the Duke of Buckingham. There will be fifty...
...mass of the population of Saxon England before the Norman conquest got rid of their smoke by the less ingenious outlet of door and window. In cordwainer (still the legal designation of shoemaker) we are pointed to the fact that the people of Cordova made the best leather-a fame to which Morocco succeeded-hence Cordovannier, cordonnier, cordwainer. Cant perpetuates a sneer against the monks who did no work but singing-cantabant, Hocus-pocus again satirizes their ignorance, and also contains a sly Protestant laugh at the Catholic mystery of transubstantiation-hoc est corpus. That wigs were originally a French...
...often happened that what has seemed to come to an end and to have accomplished nothing has really been of great value? If we look at the mission of Christ on earth, we see a young peasant collecting round himself a band of disciples, gaining considerable fame by his teaching and by his wonderful works. Suddenly he is seized by the authorities and put to an ignominious death. All his followers are scattered and all his teaching seems to amount to nothing. His enemies are satisfied that his influence is destroyed. Yet that influence, intensified by His resurrection, in less...