Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...portrait of the late Professor Barrett Wendell '77, of the University who died last Tuesday, has been hung in the historic Faculty Room in University Hall along with the portraits of bygone presidents, benefactors, and scholars of the University. The painting, which has been hanging recently in the Harvard Club of Boston, now takes a place in the Faculty Room next to that of William James. On the same wall of the room hang the portraits of James Russell Lowell, former professor of Belles Lettres and former Overseer of the University; Professor Sophocles, the celebrated and eccentric teacher of Greek...
With the death of Professor Barrett Wendell yesterday Harvard lost one of the greatest figures in her history. No man was more intimately associated with the growth of modern Harvard than he. None combined in a rarer way the qualities of scholar, teacher, and friend...
...never permitted epigram to degenerate into verbal trickery. Keenly satirical, he was in tolerant only of hypocrisy and the wealth of kindliness that lay behind the satire made him able to rebuke without bitterness. There was in his genius something of that universality which marks the truly constructive scholar. He made no pretense to a technical knowledge of art, yet he was keenly appreciative of art in all its forms and exquisitely capable of communicating this appreciation to his pupils and his friends. He went through life enjoying all that is finest in it and genially sharing his enjoyment with...
Barrett Wendell '77, professor of English at the University for thirty-seven years, and known throughout America and Europe as scholar and teacher, died at six o'clock yesterday morning at his home, 358 Marlborough street, Boston. He had been ill for several weeks with anaemia. He was in his 66th year...
...Harvard men as a stimulating teacher of composition and literature, and his large course in comparative literature known as "Comp. Lit. 1," which followed the current of literary expression from the days of the Greek dramatists and philosophers up to modern times was always popular. He was an cminent scholar of American literature and a pioneer in the development of modern instruction in English composition, the methods of teaching which he originated having been adopted to a greater or less degree in colleges all over the country...