Word: historian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number opens with "Francis Parkman's Autobiography," which was read at a special meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, held to commemorate the death of the historian, but which has not before been published. This remarkable autobiography was the result, so the author tells us, of a desire to make known the extreme difficulties, which reduced to small proportions, what might have been a good measure of achievement. After reading the story we are amazed at the actual amount of work the man accomplished under difficulties almost insurmountable, and can only faintly realize what he might have succeeded in doing...
...University of Chicago has purchased for $80,000 the library and manuscripts of the historian Bancroft...
...University of Chicago has purchased for $80,000 the library and manuscripts of the historian Bancroft...
...countless images, the innumerable population which every one of us can summon up to the tiny show-box of the brain, in material breadth scarce a span, yet infinite as space and time? and in what, I pray, are those we gravely call historical characters, of which each new historian strains his neck to get a new and different view, in any sense more real than the personages of fiction? Do not serious and earnest men discuss Hamlet as they would Cromwell or Lincoln? Does Caesar, does Alaric, hold existence by any other or stronger tenure than the Christian...
...following officers have been elected by the class of '97 at Princeton: President, P. H. Williams of New York City; vice-president, Robert Garrett of Princeton; secretary, W. A. Reynolds of Atlantic City; treasurer, G. O. Forbes of Rockford, III.; historian, J. D. Elliot of Allegheny City, Penn.; baseball manager, Harry Mattison of Brooklyn...