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...Cambridge in 1873, was appointed lecturer at Oxford. Since 1882 he has been professor of Greek at Edinburgh. He has also served as a member of the Scottish Universities Commission and of the more recent Royal Commission on University Education in Ireland. As a writer, Dr. Butcher is well known for his prose translation, with Mr. Andrew Lang, of Homer's "Odyssey," for his volume of essays entitled "Some Aspects of Greek Genius" and for his more ambitious work, "Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine...
Modern industrial conditions have created a social gap by grouping numbers of men as employees in large industrial establishments, cut off from knowledge of their employers and from acquaintance with them. It is seldom that the owners of such establishments know their own employees, or are known by them. Under such conditions it is as natural that there should be jealousies and misunderstandings between the groups thus separated as it is that there should be sectional and international jealousies where there is little mutual intercourse and acquaintance. It is toward the closing up of this social gap that all effective...
...sent to Berlin by the Italian government to study under Professors Bopp and Weber. He became professor of Sanskrit and comparative literature at the University of Florence in 1863, and has been professor of Italian literature at the University of Rome since 1891. Professor de Gubernatis is well known as a dramatist, poet, journalist, critic, and orientalist. Among his best known plays are "Pere delle Vigue," "La Morte di Catone," "Romolo," and "Savitri." He is a correspondent of several prominent reviews, and has written a number of books...
...contributions which school rowing has made to Harvard rowing in the past are too well known to need reviewing. There is however, a service that is owing to the interscholastic Association by Harvard rowing men, graduates of the constituent schools, which has been too long ignored. I refer to the service that men now in Cambridge could render by organizing into a body which should act in an advisory capacity toward the schools and co-operative actively in the preliminary discussions touching preparatory work, coaching and training...
...Clapp was born in Dorchester on July 17, 1841, and graduated from this University in 1860, receiving the degree of LL.B., four years later. He practiced law in Boston until appointed to the clerkship of the Supreme Court. He was widely known as a Shakespearian scholar and render and for more than thirty years he wrote dramatic criticism for The Boston Advertiser. During the the past year Mr. Clapp was dramatic critic for The Boston Herald. In 1894 the University conferred on him the honorary degree...