Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...born on the morning of the 25th day of November, 1859, in East Concord, N. H. In 1873 he was admitted to the Roxbury Latin School to pursue his studies preparatory to his admission to college, where, by his superb scholarship, his modest and considerate deportment, and his thorough goodness of heart, he won the esteem and affection of his teachers and fellow-students; his sharpest rivals, although at last outstripped by him, becoming his warmest friends...
...entered Harvard University, receiving honors on his examination for entrance, in the classics and mathematics; and after maintaining a high standard for scholarship during his course, he received the highest final honors in the classics, graduated the first scholar in a class of 182, and added his name to the list of those who in the past have attained like distinction, an honor of which any one might be proud. Subsequently he received appointment as head assistant in the Arnold Classical School in New York City, and a congenial and promising future seemed open before...
...taught his college friends especially, that it is possible to live amongst temptation and conquer it. He has emphasized the fact that scholarship and politeness suit well together, and that culture and piety have no antagonisms. He has refuted the too commonly accepted college opinion that religion and stupidity are boon helpmeets, by coupling the most brilliant scholarship with a sincere piety. Is not this a most worthy record? Has not his life done something for the world...
...class of '81 has always had a reputation for brilliant scholarship in the Classics. A larger number of Second-Year Honors were taken by its members than had ever been taken before, and no succeeding class has equalled it in this respect. Naturally it was expected that 81's Commencement programme would show a long list of Honors, and a number of Highest Honors assigned. But now the announcement is made, that but one man in the class has received the certificate of Honors of the highest grade. It seems strange that there should have been such a falling...
...fund is to be used. But in case the Archaeological School should fail to be a success, or should for any reason pass out of existence in course of time, the money will revert to the original subscribers. In the case of Harvard it is to found a Sophocles scholarship, to be awarded to the man who passes the best examination on the plays of Sophocles. Thus, in any event, there will be what it is so desirable that there should be, - a permanent memorial of our first Greek play. The scheme seems to us an admirable one, and attended...