Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...when, a few months later, he appeared on Jarvis Field as a candidate for the freshman nine, few men imagined that the small, unassuming young man they saw there was destined to excel in every department of the university he entered. But such indeed was true. As a scholar, he was among the first in his class; and, although he apparently devoted but little time to study, yet he had that faculty of application and versatility of intellect which enabled him to grasp any subject, whether history, philosophy, mathematics, or the languages, with wonderful accuracy and ease. His skill...
...meeting of the Yale Alumni Association last Friday night, ExGovernor Chamberlain of South Carolina introduced a resolution declaring in effect that the professorship of English literature, now vacant, was the most important in the faculty and should be filled by the most eminent scholar available. In all the struggles between the classics and the sciences. the importance of the study of English literature has been steadily on the increase in our various colleges. This is due of course, to many widely differing causes; but we think there is no influence so strongly at work now as the one voiced...
...that the lecturers shall make as little haste as possible in their reading; -that they shall so enunciate each word that the hearers may easily take them down in writing. After the reading is over the Professors shall stop for some time in the recitation rooms and if any scholar shall wish to object to anything they have read, or shall be in doubt on any point, they shall listen to him kindly, and shall explain away his doubts and difficulties...
...Abbott was a man of great leaning, being unexcelled in this country in Biblical criticism and scholarship. He was extremely devoted to his work and was always ready to lend a helping hand to any scholar without exacting hand to any scholar without exacting any return. The most striking feature of his career is the great labor he has bestowed on the works of other men. As this in most cases received but slight acknowledgment, It is impossible to give a complete list of his works, which are very numerous. He was one of the American committee appointed to assist...
...scholar whatever, without the froeacquaintance and leave of the president and his tutor, or, in the absence of either of them, two of the fellows, shall be present at or in any of the public civil meetings, or concourse of people, as courts of justice, elections, fairs, or at military exercise, in the time or hours of the college exercise, public or private. Neither shall any scholar exercise himself in any military band, unless of known gravity, and of approved sober and virtuous conversation, and that with the leave of the president and his tutor...