Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...absence of Latin from the entire plan of study is noticeable, and is explained by the fact that students were required to speak Latin in the class-rooms and in the college yard. Latin was the main requirement for admission to Harvard College. The rule was: "When a scholar is able to understand Tully (Cicero) or such like classical Latin author extempore, and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose suo ut aunt Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigm's of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue; let him then and not before be capable of admission...
...their convictions of the religiousness of a life devoted to the relief of suffering, Gradually in the course of a few decades, the instruction of these monks developed into a full university course of three years in the arts and five in medicine, all of which instruction a scholar had to attend before receiving his doctor's degree. So in the early universities medicine was the chief study, and up to the sixteenth century the only recognized physicians were graduates of the great universities in England or on the continent. The divorce of medical education from university was accomplisned...
...referred to in this connection. It is the programme of courses in the Oriental and Hamitic languages offered for the present year. From this we learn that the most complete department of its kind in America exists at Columbia, and that, under the inspiring leadership of so cultured a scholar as Dr. H. T. Peck, no fewer than nineteen courses in the Oriental and Hamitic languages are announced. This is a remarkable showing, and when considered in connection with the courses of Professors Bloomfield and Haupt at Baltimore, Whitney at New Haven, and Lyon, Toy and Lanman at Cambridge, proves...
James Grant, Bey, the eminent Egyptian scholar, delivered an address on Ancient Egypt in Boylston Hall last evening. He was briefly introduced by Prof. Cook as the most eminent authority of present time on the language, literature and art of the ancient Egyptians, and who is now in this country as a delegate to the medical conference in Washington. James Grant, Bey, replied to this introduction thanking Prof. Cook for his kindness and then commenced on the subject of the lecture, "No history in the world is so fascinating as bible history on account of its close connection with history...
...half past seven o'clock, Dr. James Grant (Bev), of Cairo, will give a lecture on Ancient Egypt in the chemical lecture room of Boylston Hall. Dr. Grant is a Scotch physician who has been resident at Cairo for the past twenty two years, and is an eminent scholar of Egyptian archeology. He will give a summary of the ancient history of this remarkable country, will show how the hieroglyphic writing was deciphered, and exhibit some remarkable specimens of Egyptian antiquities. All members of the University are invited...