Word: medallist
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Dates: during 1904-1904
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...Butcher, after graduating as Senior Classic and Chancellor's Medallist from Cambridge in 1873, was appointed lecturer at Oxford. From 1882 until the past winter he was 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. Dr. Butcher is well known as a writer 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 ambitious work, "Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine...
...Butcher received his university education at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was the Senior Classic and Chancellor's Medallist in 1873 and held a fellowship in 1874. He was later elected, without examination, to an Extraordinary Fellowship at University College. Oxford, where he remained as lecturer until 1882, when he accepted a professorship at Edinburgh. Dr. Butcher was a member of the Scottish universities commission from 1889 to 1896, and served on the royal commission on university education in Ireland in 1901. He is well-known in this country through his writings, which include a prose translation of the Odyssey...