Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Students of English 2 will be interested to learn of the publication of a pamphlet on the Shakspeare-Bacon controversy by the distinguished Shaksperean scholar, Dr. E. Engel. He severely ridicules the writings of Miss Delia Bacon and Miss Pott, and classes them with the recent discovery that Hamlet was a woman in disguise...
...great and peculiarly interesting show, to which all distinguished men travelling in this country feel themselves in duty bound to turn their attention and to carefully inspect. Scarcely a day passes but we are flattered with the information that the famous Mr. So-and-So, the netted scholar and author, or Mr. Blank, the world-renowned actor, has been visiting the college. It cannot be said, however, that the role of posing as a phenomenon is in any way a trying one, or that the appearance of these visitors ever succeeds in disturbing very much the calm flow of college...
...professor, and in 1860 was appointed to the full professorship of ancient, Byzantine and modern Greek. He was the author of a large number of books on the Greek language, his principle work being a "Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods" Professor Sophocles was a very learned scholar and a most successful teacher...
...Lord Rectorship of the University of St. Andrew's : "Every one will be pleased if the St. Andrew's men elect Mr. Lowell. The choice will be all literary, and not in the least political. The election of Mr. Lowell will be a graceful compliment to a distinguished scholar, humorist and University man, from a country which is always receiving English visitors with the warmest welcome. Mr. Lowell's charming gifts as a speaker cannot but be welcome in the holder of an office, where to make a speech is almost the only public duty...
...from me to say anything derogatory to Canon Farrar who early proved himself a brilliant and accomplished classical scholar, winning fourth place in the first class of the classical tripos in 1854, and a Trinity fellowship in 1856, besides many of the highest prizes in Greek and Latin verse composition. But his studies and experience have hardly been such as to render him a sound judge of university education, and he has shown in his remarks an ignorance of the broad and liberal system that has been doing such good work in England, outside of the small circle of Harrow...