Word: newton
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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FRANK EDWARD FULLER, West Newton...
...most worthy of study. He is not so learned, perhaps, as his elder fellow-workers, but he generally appears more so. Indeed, in his own estimation there never was any one quite so erudite as himself. He can correct Homer's Greek, or pick a flaw in Newton's mathematics. He is, in his small way, a living dictionary, and as versatile as a trained poodle at the circus. But has he not a kind of fellow-feeling with students, - from whom he is removed by only a few years? Hardly; for that would be beneath his dignity...
...following preachers will address the St. Paul's Society on Monday evenings during Lent, at Christ Church, the services to begin at 7.30: Feb. 16, Rev. Leighton Parks: Feb. 23, Rev. W. W. Newton; Mar. I, Rev. A. C. A. Hall; Mar. 8, Rev. Phillips Brooks; Mar. 15, Rev. Percy Browne...