Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Gordon began by pointing out that Milton was born at the beginning of a new age of progress in which there were many famous men, among whom he was one of the greatest. His life can be divided into three parts: his early years as a student and scholar; his share in the struggles of the day; and his retirement and the writing of his great epic poem. Milton went to college to become a minister in the Anglican Church, but he never carried out this intention for he believed that the people should rule in religious matters...
...think of Professor Wright as a scholar distinguished for learning and fine taste; as an editor of books and important philological and archaeological journals; or as a successful administrator and devoted teacher. One may think of all these things: I think of him now as a man "amans, amabilis, amatus...
...contemporary of those great men. It was his good fortune to have enjoyed the intimate friendship of many of the noblest personalities of his day, both at home and abroad, and the result was a unique breadth of intellectual as well as personal sympathies. The country has lost a scholar who stood for the beautiful in art, in literature, and in human life, and spread his teachings among great numbers; Harvard has lost a teacher through whom many of her sons have come in contact with what is best in literature and the fine arts, and a friend, besides, whose...
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences --University Scholarships--H. T. Costello 1G., A.B. 1908, student of Philosophy. W. H. H. Roth 1G., Reifezeugniss 1906, student of English. Josiah Dwight Whitney Scholarship ($100)--G. B. Roorbach 1G., A.B. 1903, Austin Scholar, student of Geology...
...Charles Homer Haskins, a student and teacher of history at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Wisconsin, and Harvard University, a productive and distinguished scholar at each one, welcome indeed to this society of scholars...