Word: parkman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Thomas Dwight, Parkman professor of anatomy has been made a member of the Philosophea-Medicae Society of Rome, the diploma being issued by President J. M. Cornoldi, S. J. This society was founded by Dr. Travaglini, with the sanction of the late Pope Pius IV., and is intended for the advancement of the sciences and philosophy. It ranks among its members, some of the leading scientific men and philosophers of Europe...
...taking men of the latter generation, and recognising the conspicuous rather than the eminent as a basis for judgment, the college men are Parkman, Warner, Lodge, Fiske, various Adamses, Hale, Higginson, White, Story, Cranch, Scudder, Leland, DeForest, Curtis, Norton, J. F. Clarke, Ripley; Stedman offsets Bryant as coming between the two classes. Of non-college men a larger number may readily be named, Walt, Whitman, Whipple, Trowbridge, Fields, Parton, Stoddard, Bayard Taylor, Eggleston, Harte, Howells, James, Aldrich, Lathrop, Stockton, Piatt, Cable, Crawford, Fawcett, Gilder, Harris, Carleton, Mark Twain, Burroughs. It is possible that some name has been...
...October "Atlantic" is one of unusual interest. Among the articles of especial worth is a continuation of "In War Times" by Dr. Weir Mitchell, a powerful description of the Battle of Lake George by Francis Parkman, the story of condition of the Southern Colleges and schools, and articles on an "English Literary Cousin," a "Bourgeois Family," the "Migrations of the gods," etc. There are poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Celia Thaxter and Augustus M. Lord. The departments are up to the usual standard...
...Critic's "Forty Immortals" writes as follows to the Literary World: There are certainly some curious features about the Critic's list of forty American Immortals. One of these is the fact that its pyramid rests, unlike those of Egypt, upon the apex. Mr. Francis Parkman certainly ranks very near the head of our living authors, whatever may be his sins in the way of political pessimism, yet he stands at the very bottom of the Critic's list. It moreover appears that he would not have occupied even this humble position but for the fact that two or three...
...Francis Parkman...