Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...death of Charles Pomeroy Parker, Harvard University loses one of her most valued professors, and the classic world is deprived of a scholar whose high character and ability has long been respected. As professor of Greek and Latin for fourteen years, he influenced the men who sat before him, not only instructing them from his wide knowledge, but inspiring them by his personality and leading them on to the more advanced fields of scholarship. Professor Parker loved the subject he taught, and what is exceptional, he was able to impart a like feeling of devotion to his students...
...them found that the offer was more than an empty promise. Similarly classes for a number of years past look back with a feeling of pleasure to the hours spent in Professor Parker's courses, and with a feeling of gratitude for the advice and friendship which the great scholar so freely gave...
...credit will be given on the payment of the tuition fee to holders of scholar-ships which require a receipt to be given until the holder has called at the Bursar's Office and signed the required acknowledgement. Other aids and scholarships such as the Price Greenleaf Aids, will be credited in payment of the tuition fee without action of the holder...
...part of his career he was a professor and later became president of Leland Stanford Jr., from 1891-1913. Since then he has been chancellor. In 1910 he was made chief director of the World Peace Foundation. He has written many books among which are "The Voice of the Scholar" and "The Religion of a Sensible American...
Jonathan Edwards, Yale 1720, from 1858 to 1859. Died 34 days after becoming president. He was a great scholar and had much influence over the faculty...