Word: man
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...society, concerning his relation to his surroundings. Not more than three years ago he published "Elizabeth of England", a drama in five acts, each in a separate volume, written in blank verse. He wrote this to disprove the statement so often made that prolonged scientific study unfits a man for literary activity. He also wrote the Phi Beta Kappa poem...
There was no man more widely known through the University among undergraduates, and those in the professional schools. Professor Shaler's lectures were popular, and numbers of men who were not taking the course came through sheer interest in what would be said, and in the manner in which it would be said. His use of the English language was notable for its forcible and original choice of words, and the apt expression of those turns of thought which will always be associated with his keen sense of humor...
...wide enough to compass him. This interest he expressed in language that was brilliantly his own. No man was quicker-witted; no man had thoughts more original or diction more picturesque. He was ardent, combative, filled with poetry and romance, instantaneously responsive in his feelings. "I hold it," he said, "a part of my business to do what I can for every wight that comes to this place"; and thousands of men bear witness that this was the truth. No teacher in Harvard University within my recollection has roused so many minds or touched so many hearts...
...neighbor?" The College Chapel will miss him, whither he used to repair daily to take what he liked to call his "moral bath, as needful, sir, as the other." He was the impersonation of health, vigor, and purity, moral as well as physical and intellectual. He was an Elizabethan man in his qualities and temperament: a poet, above all, of keen susceptibilities and sympathies; gifted, furthermore, with a remarkable creative power in English expression, especially in extempore speech, pungent, vivid, finding always--if sometimes he had to make it--the fit word; impetuous, generous, the soul of honor, scornful...
...Scribner's Magazine," and similar periodicals. His most widely known works are: "The Story of our Continent": "The Interpretation of Nature"; "The Individual: Study of Life and Death"; "The Citizen: the Study of the Individual and the Government"; "The United States of America: a Study of the American Commonwealth"; "Man and the Earth"; "Elizabeth of England"; "Kentucky: a Pioneer Commonwealth": and "The Neighbor...