Word: famed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been an advocate of scientific study for the simple love of truth, and, in this and many other respects, has constantly furnished an example of what the ideal student should be. The desire for personal advancement, or acquisition, has never entered his mind, and while others have delved for fame or wealth, he has simply sought the truth...
...remarks in the above are exceedingly suggestive. There are at least two elements in Harvard life, one corresponding to the mind, the other to the body, Harvard intellectual and Harvard athletic. But for the time at least Harvard athletic has more "fame" than Harvard intellectual; the athletes seem to be "bigger" men than the scholars, who very generally receive the hardly complimentary title of "grinds." It is truly said, "local pride leans more kindly toward the victories of brawn than towards those of mind;" but it is a mistake to suppose that Harvard men have no pride in intellectual attainments...
...fame is gone through all the world...
...presidents are a much rarer class of men than is commonly supposed. There are now sixteen colleges in the country that are without presidents, and yet almost every day one reads that a new institution has been founded by some millionaire, who wishes in some way to perpetuate his fame and influence among educated men. The Stanford University, with its endowment of $3,500,000, will soon be a competitor for still another president, and there is no knowing how many more of these figureheads or financial agents may be required before the end of the year. The truth...
...side by side with the great educators of the day, by making it possible for them to carry on, in new fields, the great work of educating the race and lifting man to a higher level. He will be known as the man who founded the University after his fame as senator shall have faded from memory...