Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Frederick J. De Peyster, in a speech before the trustees of Columbia College, spoke as follows of the proposed school at Athens: "Dr. W. W. Goodwin of Harvard University, whom I consider the first Hellenic scholar in America, will assume the direction of the school. Under one of the broad rules which govern his college, professors are allowed, at proper periods, a two-years' vacation, and during their absence one-half of their salary is continued. The Archaeological Institute has raised the necessary sum to make up the amount required by Dr. Goodwin, and the school will therefore be inaugurated...
...popular notion that the great majority of honor men and of "first scholars" seldom achieve in after-life a success at all proportionate to their academical standing. But of course this is strictly a popular notion, conceived in accordance with popular ideals. It can be answered that in such cases the scholar's ideal of success is often different from the popular ideal. Now that the ancient institution of wranglers is practically being abolished at Cambridge in England, considerable discussion is being called forth upon this question in the English press, and the recent publication of a complete list...
...twenty. "It should be an institution for training the mind and disciplining the character, and should not aim to be an institution of learning, in the broad sense of the term. The teacher's personal interest in the student should not be diverted by ambition for renown as a scholar, nor the efficiency of his teaching encumbered by large numbers of students." This is eminently reasonable as a theory, and is really a statement of the swiftly-approaching fact as to the relations of educational institutions in this country. Such colleges as Beloit and such schools as Phillips and Adams...
...Prof. Ko seems, to our mortal reason, untimely. He had acquired some knowledge of our language and civilization. He longed that Chinese children should understand the English language. He was a teacher to all who came to know and esteem him. He taught us that the gentleman and scholar, the earnest and true man, is always the same. After the address, Prof. Everett offered prayer, and the choir sang a hymn from the chapel collection by Whittier. After the singing of the hymn the remains were taken back to Prof. Ko's residence. While the body was being taken...
...noted scholars and professors of England of today Oxford has Max Muller, George Rawlinson, Benj. Jewett and J. C. Shairp; Cambridge, Professors Seeley and Fawcett; the University of London has Professors Ward, Henry Morley, Schmitz, Lankester, Bobertson and Thorold Rogers. In Scotland, Alex. Bain, Principal Tulloch, Peter Baynes and David Mason; and Dowden, the Shakesperean scholar, is at Dublin...