Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Robertson in 1895 went into management and produced "Romeo and Juliet" and "The School for Scandal" with Mrs. Patrick Campbell. At the Lyceum a year later when he played in his present part, he reached a reasonable ideal, and a distinguished critic and Shakesperian scholar exclaimed, "That man was born to play Hamlet." His company was taken to Germany, where the Emperor saw Macbeth and Hamlet, and received Mr. Robertson twice in the Imperial box. On his return "Macbeth" was given with an all-star cast...
...scholarship at the University of Oxford for the period of residence beginning with Michaelmas Term in the second week of October, 1904, is to be awarded by the committee, the scholar to be elected from those who shall have passed the qualifying examination. The stipend as fixed by the founder is *300 per annum, and the tenure is "for three consecutive academical years," the payments to be made quarterly...
...University, it will be based on the requirements for Responsions--the first examination exacted by the University from candidates for a degree. The Examiners at Oxford will report to the Committee of Selection the names of those who pass the qualifying examination, and the Committee will elect a Rhodes Scholar from those whose names are thus reported...
...Clapp was born in Dorchester on July 17, 1841, and graduated from this University in 1860, receiving the degree of LL.B., four years later. He practiced law in Boston until appointed to the clerkship of the Supreme Court. He was widely known as a Shakespearian scholar and render and for more than thirty years he wrote dramatic criticism for The Boston Advertiser. During the the past year Mr. Clapp was dramatic critic for The Boston Herald. In 1894 the University conferred on him the honorary degree...
This collection is a portion of the valuable private library of the late eminent German scholar, Professor Conrad von Maurer of Munich. Very few of the books duplicate any already in the possession of the University...