Word: famed
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...reacts strongly on the student. It gives full scope to individual needs both as regards courses and teachers. Let me emphasize that we learn from persons more than from courses. Finally and above all else, free election gives full play to the faculty of selection. Men have grown to fame simply by developing themselves along the line of their own talents. From the days of Burke, graduated by grace and learning from his wide political reading, even until now, men have prepared themselves for the best and most useful lives by selecting what best meets their needs. If they made...
...embodying it in any formal treatise, --Vittorino da Feltre and Guarino of Verona. Both founded schools in Italy and both, by advocating a liberal education--bodily as well as mental exercise, Greek as well as the Latin culture--together taught the many scholars who for centuries kept alive their fame. From these two men and their successors, Ferrara and Vittoria Colona, proceed the greater number of those scholars who afterwards carried the new learning out into the world, not only throughout Italy but into the countries of the west, far beyond her borders...
...became Mary Anderson's leading man in 1886, and contributed to her fame, as Leontes in "The Winter's Tale," as the Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale in "The Scarlet Letter," and Orlando in "As You Like...
...volume is written with fluency and naturalness of style. Justly emphasized throughout is the Americanism of Longfellow; while he was the first among American poets to create for himself a world-wide fame, and added to our poetry great cosmopolitan richness, he was guided from youth to age by the strongest national feeling. The author also shows clearly the often unnoticed service of Longfellow--beyond the stimulus caused by the remarkable sweetness and cheerfulness of his life and poetry--that of being in an eminently practical country the first conspicuous representative of the literary life. Mr. Higginson's estimate...
...games of the Yale-Princeton series have been played. The first, played at New Haven, resulted in a victory for Yale by the score of 10 to 6; the second was won by Princeton at Princeton by the score of 8 to 5. The first fame was carelessly played, and Yale showed poor head-work. The second game, played under unfavorable weather conditions, which were responsible for several errors, was won by Princeton's good playing in bunching hits and in clever base-running...