Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that both sides of the question as to the utility of a classical education have been so ably set forth by President Porter and Charles Francis Adams, it is both interesting and important to note the opinions of a leading English scholar, Rev. Frederick W. Farrar, on the same point. Especially is this so since it has been claimed that the 'American standard of classical Knowledge is low and that we must go where the system has been more faithfully tried for the highest evidence of its advantages.' There could be no better field from which to gain this evidence...
...universities and schools, and I think you will not be unwilling to allow a little space for their correction. Let me premise however that it seems to me probable the News reporter may have misunderstood President Porter's remarks, as I should suppose a gentleman so eminent as a scholar and as the head of a great college would have taken pains to be more accurately informed. It is my purpose to ask him for a copy of his lecture, if published, as I hope may be the case...
...though he had been so short a time in the country, must have known something of his personal history,-speak gratefully of his generous gift, not one of them has left for us the slightest information of facts which we should be glad to know of this youthful, delicate scholar, fading away of consumption early in the second autumn of his exile. While the descendants of large numbers of the earliest New England colonists, whose genealogies have an interest only for their own families, have easily traced their localities and lineage in the mother country, all efforts, and they have...
Prof. Lyon, of Harvard, the distinguished Assyrian scholar, turned his vacation to good account by crossing the ocean and bringing home an accomplished German wife from Leipsic...
...call special attention to the opportunity which is afforded all students of history in hearing the celebrated German scholar, Professor Von Holst, lecture on matters concerning the government of his native country. Prof. Von Holst is well acquainted with the United States, having spent altogether seven years here, and will deliver his lectures in English, so as to be under stood by all. It is only by a happy chance that we are to be enabled to hear him at all, for he has been present at the Northern Pacific celebration and will shortly leave for Germany, so that instead...