Word: historian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...senior class has elected the following officers: President, Owsley Brown, III.; vice-president, Herbart Wheeler, Pa.; secretary, J. Lionberger Davis, Me.; master of ceremonies, Wm. H. Edwards, N. Y.; presentation orator, Chas. H. Stewart, Ind.; historian, Chas. Yeoman, N. J.; '76 prize debater, John B. Keley, D. C.; ivy orator, J. A. Jones, N. J.; class poet, B. G. Huntingdon, Ohio; class orator, D. L. Chambers, D. C.; class prophet, Elroy Curtis, D. C.; Washington's Birthday orator, Edward S. Prieth...
John Codman Ropes '57, historian and lawyer, died of paralysis on Saturday, at his home in Boston. He was sixty-three years...
...influence of the country on its early colonization and history. The period of colonial history is thoroughly treated and from the formation of the Union down to the present day the constitutional as well as political history of the country is carefully analyzed. With the custom of the modern historian more attention is paid to the growth of the constitutional liberty of the nation than to its military achievements, but the latter are by no means neglected. Every event of any importance in our history is described and particular care has been taken concerning the accuracy of every statement made...
...reading the "Martyrs" of Chateaubriand and the novels of Walter Scott that Augustin Thierry felt himself develop into an historian. His object was to establish peace between science and art, with scientific and artistic arrangement of material. He is endowed with an imagination which raises images, landscapes and people before the eyes of the reader. His histories where he describes events, paints scenes and outlines characters,- for instance, the "Conquete de l'Angleterre par les Normands" and "Recits Merovingiens,"- are very close in style to novels or epic poems...
...This quality in Michelet's writing was the result of his unhealthy nature and of the suffering of his childhood and youth. He has the imagination of the heart; he penetrates the soul. For this reason he has a sympathetic appreciation of the Middle Ages and is the best historian of Jeanne d'Arc. But after 1843 Michelet lost the equilibrium he had preserved between imagination and erudition; and history came to mean for him mere pamphlet writing...