Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Herbert Palmer the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities. In presenting the degree to Professor Palmer, Dean West paid a glowing tribute to the scope of his accomplishments and the permanent influence of his work. Professor Palmer, he said, combines the qualities of a great teacher and a powerful thinker; is a literary artist of high distinction and "a philosopher of original sense with a tranquil enthusiasm for truth." Such a tribute to our esteemed professor arouses a sense of pride in every Harvard man. This new honor for Professor Palmer reminds us again of the magnitude of his work...
...LL.D., professor of Greek at the University of Chicago, delivered the third of the Lane lectures on "Life and Letters at Athens" in Emerson D yesterday evening, taking as his subject "The Case of Euripides." Dr. Shorey discussed the Case of Euripides, giving a criticism of Euripides as a thinker, a dramatist and a poet...
...melodrama which Euripides infused into Greek life made him known as an iconoclast and prophet of a new thought. But it is the difficulties encountered in the translation of his works that leads to the charge of pedantry against him. Euripides as a thinker shows that he had not attained unity and harmony in himself although he had a nicety of observation and epithet. As a dramatist his technique is beyond our scope. As a poet he had many faults, but he had great poetical magic...
...March issue of the Harvard Law Review is dedicated as a memorial to James Barr Ames, "ardent student of legal history, constructive legal thinker, master of inductive teachers, sympathetic friend of young men, deliberate of thought, firm of conviction, tolerant of opinion, gentle and modest of bearing...