Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Dana as laudator temporis acti shows that last year's success in rowing is due to a return to earlier ways. Professor Jackson gives a review of the work of the late Wolcott Gibbs; it is singularly illuminating to laymen in showing the importance of the activities of a scholar...
...Responsions examination is held at Oxford towards the end of September in each year. Rhodes scholars, therefore, who have not passed the qualifying examination in Greek should be prepared to come to Oxford in time for this examination. As the election of scholars will probably be completed by the end of December, a scholar will have nine months in which to master the required Greek. This concession is made for exceptional cases, but the trustees hope that candidates will pass in all three subjects so that they can devote their time to subjects more germane to the line of study...
President Nicholas Murray Butler has been president of Columbia University since 1902. He has an enviable reputation as an educator and a scholar, as his long list of honorary degrees from universities at home and abroad testifies. In addition to serving on a number of commissions of education and on boards of trustees he has achieved distinction in the study of philosophy. His activities have not been confined to this country as he has studied and lectured in Germany, France, and England. Only last summer he lectured in Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Christiania. While at Columbia President Butler has firmly opposed...
...Faculty since his appointment in 1900 to a professorship of the science of government. He has taken unusual interest in undergraduate affairs and has made several investigations into undergraduate conditions and compiled interesting statistics from the results. Professor Lowell has recently added to his international reputation as a scholar by the publication of two volumes on the Government of England. Before becoming a professor he practiced law in Boston for nearly twenty years. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School as well as of the College. Professor Lowell was born in Boston, December...
Charles Lowell '54, of whom Major Higginson spoke at greatest length, was full of mischief and fun, always ready for anything, but a brilliant scholar, graduating at the head of the class of 1854, at the age of 19. After leaving the University, he was employed in a counting-room, and later worked as a mill hand, in order to study, the men of the working classes. Through obstinate disregard of his health he contracted tuberculosis, making it necessary for him to travel. He tried Spain, Italy and Aigiers in turn, but finally returned to America and went to take...