Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lanman has been elected an honorary member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. The election is to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Professor Weber of the University of Berlin. The number of honorary members is limited to thirty, the list including scholars of distinction in various departments of Oriental learning, and only one other American scholar has achieved this distinction...
...competition for the Sales Prize will be held at 9.15 a.m., on June 11, in Holden Chapel. This prize of forty-five dollars is offered to the best scholar in Spanish composition according to the will of Francis Sales, instructor in Spanish and French from 1816 to 1854. The competition is limited to undergraduates of Harvard College and the Lawrence Scientific School...
...Boer war a book upon that subject by a popular writer of sensational fiction. Will you kindly allow me the opportunity of calling attention to a less advertised work upon the same subject by a distinguished Englishman, who is not only a literary man, but also a scholar. I refer to Mr. John A. Hobson, lecturer in the London School of Economics, and author of several well-known books upon economic theory and history, which are regularly used in our economic courses. Mr. Hobson's "The War in South Africa: its Causes and Effects," was written after a sojourn...
...Furness is probably the greatest American Shakespearian scholar and ranks among the greatest in the world today. After graduating from Harvard in 1854, he spent two years studying abroad and then returned to Philadelphia. His "Variorum Edition of Shakespeare" is accepted by students of all nationalities as the standard work of its kind and has received warm appreciation from the leading literary critics of England and America...
...will be given by the Right Reverend Charles H. Brent, recently consecrated missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines. Bishop Brent is a graduate of Trinity College, Toronto, and the many nominations to important professorships of theology which he has declined show his reputation as a scholar...