Word: friends
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Urumjah, Persia, in 1852. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1873, and three years later received from Dartmouth the degree of A. M. From 1876 until 1878 he was a student of classical philology and Sanskrit at Leipzig University, where he was the fellow student and intimate friend of the late Professor Minton Warren. In 1878 he became associate professor of Greek at Dartmouth; and in 1886 professor of classical philology at Johns Hopkins. The following year he became professor of Greek at Harvard, and was later made chairman of the division of ancient languages in the University...
Congratulating you on your labors and satisfactions in the past, and on the sure prospect of greater labors and satisfactions to come, I am, with high respect, Your friend and servant, CHARLES W. ELIOT...
...incident in the parade will not be forgotten soon by those who saw it. As the procession marched down Tremont street, a man of seventy years and more fell in line just behind the band which led the Harvard division. Guided by a friend he marched with eyes closed and head erect while the band played the old songs, as he had done in the days of the war. Major Higginson had joined the ranks...
...only a man of high scholarly attainments and ideals, but he was a citizen who had the welfare of the community at heart, and took an active part in its concerns as far as need required and opportunity offered. He was also a warm-hearted and hospitable friend to a wide circle of men of many callings, and was always ready to serve them as he could, however much it taxed his time and strength, though his hands were full with work of his own, and, during his active service as Professor in the University, with the routine of instruction...
...scholar who stood for the beautiful in art, in literature, and in human life, and spread his teachings among great numbers; Harvard has lost a teacher through whom many of her sons have come in contact with what is best in literature and the fine arts, and a friend, besides, whose memory will be cherished in even higher esteem by those who knew his worth...