Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Whereas God in his infinite wisdom has taken from among us the scholar whose fame is endeared to our hearts by the love we have borne for him as a teacher...
...WHITELAW REID, in his oration at Amherst, last summer, urged upon the attention of his. hearers the need of educated men in politics, and-Dr. Holland has commented thereon in Scribner's Monthly, expressing his own conviction that, after all. it is not scholars, but gentlemen, that are the desideratum in our political life at present. Now to a Harvard student, with whom scholar is supposed to have become almost synonymous with gentleman, who himself claims to be both a gentleman and a scholar, this topic should be of no small interest...
...changed? Not necessarily gone to the bad, of course, but with a good many angularities of character worn down by constant attrition, and a number of lines, which were wont to be sharply drawn, now quite obliterated. Very likely a few failures to attain the rank as a scholar, which all who knew you had predicted, bring discouragement, a belief in the unfairness of a marking system as an indication of profit derived, and a fondness for general reading upon a subject instead of constant adherence to the textbook. This is a wise view, taken by itself, but perhaps dangerous...
...himself adrift from all who had any right to fall upon his neck and greet him - hic - dear old fellow; the same old dinner-procession, whose dignified, slow-moving head gave no indication of the riotous life displayed by its swaying tail; and finally, the ancient scholar was there, who every year nobly refuses his dinner, that he may spend the afternoon in exhorting the lazy scapegraces lolling in the halls and on the grass to persevere in polite studies. We can afford to forget the contempt of his "Hibernicus ego natus sum; tu es Americanus" when we remember...
...might be supposed that much of this praise was due to the affectionate admiration of a brother, but the simplicity and earnestness with which it is bestowed compel us to believe that it is deserved. A short time after leaving Oxford, where he distinguished himself both as a scholar and as an athlete, George Hughes established himself in London, intending to follow the law; but he was soon compelled, principally by the illness of his wife's mother, to relinquish his profession. After living in Italy for some time, he returned to England, and took up his residence for life...