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Rogers, besides being college president and poet, was a preacher, physician, linguist and scientist ; a fair representative of the versatility required of college presidents in "ye olden time...
During the month of July last Rev. Edw. W. Blyden, D. D., LL. D., arrived in this country from Liberia, since which time the interest in the educational advancement of that country has greatly increased throughout America. Dr. Blyden is the president of Liberia College, is a fluent linguist (speaking no less than seven languages), and has done more to advance the prosperity of the negro race than many a statesman far more famed. The college curriculum is much more advanced than might be supposed, embracing a thorough course in classical Greek, with practice in the use of the modern...
...stands head and shoulder above his contemporaries and the men of his age. In the name of the students of Harvard College, ay, in the name of the people of Cambridge, we offer thanks for this golden opportunity of listening to Harvard's greatest Oriental linguist and Hebrew scholar...
...whose properties must be found; and he is bent on showering globules of his solution on all who approach him. If he is a zoologist, he regards you as an animal, and discovers, if you have six toes, the bond of kinship between you and extinct ichthyosauri. If a linguist, he is for ever overwhelming you with dead roots, and the hidden beauties of a language three thousand years nearer Adam than your own. In a word, in whatever phase this specimen may appear, he is riding a hobby-horse. The disagreeable part of it is, that he wants every...
Though never very studious after this, Motley was a brilliant linguist. He devoted most of his time to literature. Shelley and Praed were his favorite poets. He amused himself by writing sketches, poems, fragments of plays, etc., some of which were printed in the papers of the day, and two poems appeared in the college paper, - the Collegian...