Word: leader
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject, but occupies a position similar to that of the "Autocrat" or "Professor" in Holmes' charming "Breakfast Table" series. Easy discussions are carried on between the professor and the members of the class and among the members themselves, the professor simply retaining the right of exercising the functions of leader and critic. In studying an author or a period, the professor assigns to each student some special feature of the subject, upon which he is required to prepare a short essay. A number of these essays are read the next day in the class, and then the professor calls...
...late Professor Eustis was at one time when an undergraduate, leader of the Pierian Sodality...
...position of professor to which the university saw fit to call him at the inception of a Scientific department. For more than thirty years he has filled the position with credit to himself and the university. Few, indeed, can show a record of longer service faithfully performed. Another leader has fallen, another gap been made in the ranks of those whom the university and its students have been accustomed to depend on and look up to respectively as the educational forces of Cambridge...
...close of the fourteenth century a really competent teacher of Greek, Manuel Chrysoloras, found his way to Italy, and then the work began in earnest. The first half of the fifteenth century was the age of collecting manuscripts, so that it has been called after him who was the leader of the movement-the age of Poggio. The fall of Constantinople, which brought a fresh supply of exited Greeks to Italy, some laden with manuscripts. gave an additional stimulus to the work. The invention of printing brought with it the power not only of multiplying these precious manuscripts indefinitely...
...that they are too dainty and shun the necessary exertion of playing foot ball to win. The players above named are good, but the other seven men do not properly support them. Especially Kimball, the Captain, falls below the standard of play which is expected of the leader of a Harvard University team. -[N. Y. Times...