Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...then called. As they passed the islands, which then as now stand watch and ward over the entrance of this estuary of the Charles, they bestowed upon those islands a name which they still bear, that of the Brewsters, after their Elder, William Brewster, who had been a scholar of Peterhouse in the great university in England. A year or two later, when that solitary Englishman - how he came, when and whence, we are at a loss to know - built his hut on the Shawmut peninsula, not far from where Louisburg Square now is in Boston, the old Cambridge planted...
...large and varied experience. He served as an of ficer in the War of the Rebellion, and was for some months a prisoner of war. He spent several years in Europe, devoting himself to the study of modern languages and literature. He was an accomplished scholar in German and French, and at the time of his death held the position of American editor to a "Cyclopedic Dictionary" about to be published in Paris...
...them leisure looked like the larceny of other people's time. Mr. Quincy was one of the first gentlemen of leisure. His stories are most charming; his letters are models in their way; he stood in the fore-front of the desperately unpopular cause of Abolition; was a finished scholar, a delightful man, and a thorough patriot. How many men of business have left a better record? Yet the old Puritan prejudice had as most Puritan notions had, a principle beneath that is fundamentally right. Leisure, unemployed, is apt, as Dr. Watts has kindly pointed...
...advocates the addition of such a department to Harvard. The idea is an excellent one, and should receive more attention from our educators and legislators. If such a department were added to our universities, it would not only insure a better civil service, but it would make the "scholar in politics" a reality instead of a reformer's dream. Politics would become something more than systematic trickery and a struggle for the offices; and politicians would become less and statesmen more numerous." - Amherst Student...
...late Henry N. Hudson, the Shakespearean scholar, bequeathed one third of his library to St. Paul's school...