Word: philologist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Classical Club has invited Dr. Julius Sachs, a well-known philologist, of New York, to deliver three lectures on Greek vase paintings. These lectures will be held on Thursday, the 23rd, Friday, the 24th of February, and Friday, the 2d of March, in Boylston Hall. The lectures will be copiously illustrated with the stereopticon, and promise to be of very great interest. The subject will be treated in a manner that will appeal very strongly to a cultivated audience, as the lecturer will treat of the Greek vase paintings in their relation to the Homeric poems and the later...
This miserable system, or rather this miserable lack of system, prevails in all the German universities in a greater or less degree, according to the size of the libraries. And yet the German student lives and learns and becomes the famous philologist, or the famous scientist, whose works are kept in our American libraries at the disposal of everybody. He knows and cares for nothing better, and it were cruel indeed to tell him how much more favored we Americans are. "Where ignorance is bliss...
Ramabhai, the Sanscrit poetess, is at present the guest of the philologist, Max Muller, at Oxford, England. She is perhaps the first learned Brahmin who has ever crossed the ocean. She is a descendant of the ancient Brahmin family, Sandilya. Her correct pronunciation of the Sanscrit, and the astonishing ease, with which she composes and recites Sanscrit verses in the most difficult metre, is a marvel...
...born at Darnay in the province of Vosges, France. His family belonged to what is known as the magistrate class, and had been officially connected with the government for generations. He was sent to Paris to educate himself for the law, where he studied with Genin, the celebrated philologist who was a personal friend of his family. While with him, he assisted in writing several articles in the "Nouvelle Biographic General." Later he held a position in the pension department which he left to come to America. He came to New York in 1857 and for four years was instructor...
...strictest sense and as it is followed in the German universities. Such a course was not calculated to reveal any extraordinary or immediate developments, but it is hoped that it will in time replace the stay abroad, which seems a part of the life of every rising philologist, and furnish sufficient inducements for more of our graduates to continue their special studies here. Naturally enough, until the call is more urgent, there will be little need of all the multiplied branches of a foreign university; but every one feels encouraged to believe that, when the time comes, the demand will...