Word: famously
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...members of the undergraduate body will learn with deep regret that advancing age makes it impossible for Professor Lane to continue active service after the present year. He is one of those men who have made Harvard famous as the centre of rich scholarship. One of the foremost Latin authorities of his day, he has won high regard in the greatest intellectual centres, not only here, but also in foreign lands. And yet his achievements have never been a barrier to kindly interest in students and all their activities, and his honest and practical sympathy has endeared him to numberless...
...lecture was illustrated with many stereopticon views of famous buildings and plans...
...fallacy to think that football men are bruisers. They are chosen for their pluck, energy and courage, and these requisites are more often found in the more intellectual and gentlemanly students than among the brutal ones. Gill and Cowan, who were perhaps the most famous tackles who ever played football, were both ministers, and four out of the last six captains at Yale have been in good standing in the University and prominent...
...rather his strong point to develope what he found: into the dough which others made he put the yeast which caused it to rise. In this way he took the old Chronicles which existed before his time, and by varying adherence to them and departure from them developed his famous plays. He adhered to the Chronicles in so far as there is a stratum of historical fact in all of the dramas of which we are speaking; he departed from them by the addition of characters and scenes of his own invention, which in some cases almost obscure the facts...
...forty years took place yesterday afternoon and proved a great success. Professor Smith presided and more than half the Law School was in attendance. The jury were absent two hours before they finally returned a verdict for the plaintiff. The case before the court was a modification of the famous Howland will case...