Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Robertson Smith, the well known biblical scholar, has accepted the position of professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, made vacant by the death of Professor Palmer...
Resolved, That by the death of our classmate we have lost a pleasant companion, a good scholar, a friend who bore knowing, and who by his frankness, generosity, and manliness, will compel us to miss...
...English scholar during a holiday excursion in the Hartz Mountains subjected himself one day to a severe physical strain which produced a singular mental disturbance. He was on his feet from morning till night, and in the course of the day's wanderings made several arduous ascents, taking no rest and neither eating nor sleeping. At night when he reached a place where he could supply his needs he was unable, to his great astonishment, to recollect a single word of the German language, although he ordinarily spoke it with fluency. His memory did not fail him in any other...
...fact is that the scholar does not always appear well in politics. Take the government of our schools and colleges. The organization is imperfect. They are controlled too often by private animosities, family interests and compacts, and every form of nepotism, or may become subject to this power of a boss, so that they are not better nor worse than the powers of administration at Washington. Take the organization of the school at Andover, where an old and learned faculty and a large and respectable body of trustees are subject, on the most critical questions, to a board of three...
Charles Joseph Hubbard, "The Scholar in a Republic." - [Wendell Phillips...