Word: scottish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...approach" and "battering (i.e. sloping) bases"; harsh collations of words are common, and even quite inadmissible expressions, like easily in "the prophecy was easily declared verified," occur. No such book should appear without a good map. Besides the little bibliography, a brief table of the chief events in Scottish history might be worth adding; and the long account of Edinburgh Castle would be very greatly illuminated by one of the numerous old plans of this grand but much altered fortress...
...Calcutta Association has 12 secretaries, 1100 members, and 8 branch buildings for Europeans, Indians, and Eurasians, including a boys' building and four hotels for students. The board of Directors includes the Governor of Bengal, the Mayor of Calcutta, the Canon of the Anglican Cathedral, the minister of the Scottish Church, the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, the scientific officer of the Indian Tea Association, the manager of the Remington Typewriter Company, the head of the leading law firm, the Comptrolled of the Imperial post-offices, the manager of the largest publishing house, and two representatives of large commercial houses...
...Gore Hall library has recently received a number of interesting and valuable books on the history and antiquities of Scotland, purchased by means of money recently donated for the purpose by Mr. Alexander Cochrane of Boston. Among the collection are Scottish Market Crosses by J. W. Small, the Memorials of Montrose in two volumes, published by the Maitland Club of Edinburgh, a History of the Frasers of Lovat by Alexander Mackenzie, Epitaphs and Inscriptions of Scotland by Andrew Jervise and Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings in two volumes by John Kay of Edinburgh...
...these cannot be counted for a degree, and of the other three, which are half courses, only one can be so counted. There are new rules concerning the composition courses 31 and 22. Mr. Cobb's course, 36 2hf., Professor Hill's course, 3b, and Dr. Neilson's on Scottish Literature, will be omitted. Without the approval of the Department of English no student will be allowed to take more than one full course in English composition in any one year...
...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...