Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Conferences on the Boulevard des Capucines his lectures are heard and appreciated by audiences accustomed to the discourses of such men as Francisque Sarcey and Henri de Lappommeraye. M. Coquelin is the type of a French gentleman in every sense of the word; an intelligent actor and a profound scholar. He is one of the leading Molieristes of his time, his criticism of Tartuffe being considered a remarkable piece of work. As M. Coquelin is a complete master of the subject he will speak upon, his lecture cannot fail to be of interest to all those desirous of knowing...
...present campaign will have an opportunity to do so on Wednesday evening, October 17, at Union Hall, Main street, Cambridge-port, when Henry Cabot Lodge, '71, is to make his only speech in Cambridge during the campaign. He is a good example, to men of all parties, of the scholar in politics. Taking a Ph. D. in 1875 for his essay on Anglo-Saxon Sand-Saws, he became successively university lecturer, editor of the North American and of the International Review, representative in the legislature, overseer of the college and congressman. He was also vice-president of the Constitutional Centennial...
...Huebner, the noted Latin scholar of the University of Berlin has been elected to fill the place of Professor Newton Warren in the Johns Hopkins University...
...with ease and correctness. Weekly declamation were held on Fridays during the college year, in the College Hall, also disputations at which either the president or one of the fellows presided. These declamations and disputations were held once a month "in the presence of the magistrates, ministers and other scholars," to test the progress of the students in "learning and godliness." For three weeks in June each year all students of two or more years' standing were required to attend in the "Hall," from nine to eleven and from one to three on Mondays and Tuesdays for their annual examinations...
...Jewett will read this evening the translation of selected portions of the "Assembles" of All Hariri, a celebrated Arabic scholar and poet who flourished at about the time of the first crusade. The "Assemblies" are among the most celebrated productions of Arabic literature, and have spread the author's all fame over the vast extent of territory where the Arabic language has been and is studied. They are looked upon by nations and scholars as models, and have been studied and commented on for hundreds of years. Mirroring as they do the spirit of their author's age. and having...