Word: medalist
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...bronze cut of President Eliot, nearly 18 inches in diameter, mounted and framed, has recently been placed over the fire-place in the writing room of the Union. It is the work of the famous French medalist Leon Deschamps, and is the original from which were taken the bronze medals which were made in connection with the John Harvard celebration...
...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...