Word: matthews
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Elbridge Gerry, R. T. Paine, William Hooper and William Williams; Yale four - Oliver Walcott, 1747; Phillip Livingston, 1737; Lewis Morris, 1746, and Lyman Hall, 1747; Princeton two - Richard Stockton and Benjamin Rush; William and Mary three - Thomas Jefferson, C. Braxton, and George Wythe; College of Philadelphia three - William Paca, Matthew Hopkinson, and James Smith; Cambridge (Eng.) three - Arthur Middleton, Thomas Lynch, and Thomas Nelson; Edinburgh - John Witherspoon. James Wilson studied at Edinburgh, St. Andrews, and Glasgow, and Charles Carroll of Carrollton at several foreign Jesuit colleges, as well as law at the Temple...
Herbert Hayes Norton, of the class of 1892, died at his home, Winona, Minn., December 11, 1894. His illness was very short and his death unexpected. He was the son of Matthew G. Norton and was born at Winona, August 15, 1868. At the age of eighteen he entered Hamline University, where he remained two years. The next year and a half he spent abroad, travelling and studying. Then returning, in the fall of 1889, he joined the junior class at Hamline. He completed this year and in the following autumn came to Harvard, where he was admitted...
...writer, he was also a figure in academic life. During all his working life he was a Fellow, or a resident, at Oxford, and it is there we like best to think of him. Pater was in no way a reformer. He cared as much for the past as Matthew Arnold and Henry James did for the present. As a critic Pater dwelt most fondly upon those who were dead. In a little book of criticisms, called "Appreciations," we find him coming nearer the present. In this book he speaks of people only, or almost only, to praise them...
...best. This unquestioned masterpiece, however, is "Marius the Epicurean," which, to a well tuned mind, is one of the most beautiful, suggestive and inspiring books in the English language. It is not the philosophy of the book, but rather its pictorial qualities which make it attractive. In contrast to Matthew Arnold, who wished to make the best things prevail, Pater dwells upon the best things, without trying to make them prevail...
After the talk Mr. Copeland read Matthew Arnold's "Requiescat," and selections from Pater's "Marius the Epicurean." Mr. Copeland's next lecture will be given in Sever 11, on February 12. The subject will be "The New Woman...