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...Butcher, after graduating as Senior Classic and Chancellor's Medallist from Cambridge in 1873, was appointed lecturer at Oxford. From 1882 until the past winter he was professor of Greek at Edinburgh. He has also served as a member of the Scottish Universities Commission and of the more recent Royal Commission on University Education in Ireland. Dr. Butcher is well known as a writer for his prose translation with Mr. Andrew Lang of Homer's "Odyssey," for his volume of essays entitled "Some Aspects of Greek Genius" and for his ambitious work, "Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine...
...Butcher, after graduating as Senior Classic and Chancellor's Medalist from Cambridge in 1873, was appointed lecturer at Oxford. Since 1882 he has been professor of Greek at Edinburgh. He has also served as a member of the Scottish Universities Commission and of the more recent Royal Commission on University Education in Ireland. As a writer, Dr. Butcher is well known for his prose translation, with Mr. Andrew Lang, of Homer's "Odyssey," for his volume of essays entitled "Some Aspects of Greek Genius" and for his more ambitious work, "Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine...
...Senior Classic and Chancellor's Medallist in 1873 and held a fellowship in 1874. He was later elected, without examination, to an Extraordinary Fellowship at University College. Oxford, where he remained as lecturer until 1882, when he accepted a professorship at Edinburgh. Dr. Butcher was a member of the Scottish universities commission from 1889 to 1896, and served on the royal commission on university education in Ireland in 1901. He is well-known in this country through his writings, which include a prose translation of the Odyssey, compiled with the co-operation of Andrew Lang. "Demosthenes" in the Classic Writers...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra will give the fourth concert this evening at 7.45 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. The following program will be rendered: Overture to Mid-summer Night's Dream, Mendelssohn; Fantasia on Scottish Airs for violin and orchestra, Bruch; Symphony in D minor, Dohnanyi. The soloist for the evening will be Mr. Alexander Z. Birnbaum, violinist...
...account of Mr. Lapsley's departure the new half-course on Scottish History, which he was to have conducted during the second half-year, will not be given...