Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Boston Public Library. Of the subsequent proceedings between Mr. Winsor and the city authorities, wherein efforts were made to retain him, it is unnecessary here to speak, as the dailies have told the whole story time and time again. Whether Mr. Winsor was to be preferred to another great scholar and brilliant writer, for some time past closely connected with the Library, whatever our views on the subject, we will not attempt to discuss...
Resolved, That by the decease of Edmund Quincy; a member of this Board, the University has been deprived of one of its most loyal men. Faithful to his duties of observation, his latest hours were expended in the to him agreeable duty of noting the proficiency of the scholars from whose presence he issued so suddenly to die. An independent thinker, an exact scholar, and an accomplished author, he leaves behind him a reputation equally honorable to the institution which developed his talents and to his own fidelity to the trusts reposed...
...fact that he received last year the degree of Doctor of Laws from Harvard, and therefore he was in this point, if not in public station, ahead of President Hayes, and after communicating the interesting news that the present administration intended to smooth the path of the scholar in politics somewhat, paid the following tribute to Professor Lowell...
General Devens then called upon Senator Bayard, of Delaware, to respond to the toast proposed by Mr. Schurz, "The scholar in politics...
...after years, will always be one of the most agreeable features of our college course; and I feel sure that one is speaking for the entire class, in expressing deep regret at Mr. Everett's departure; alike for the loss of so agreeable a man, so profound a scholar, and so captivating a lectures...