Word: famed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...College, who was a deeply religious man of reserved, strong character, great force of intellect and most impressive presence, and possessing a rare gift of twinkling humor which enabled him to enter deeply into the lives of all the students. Henry Wadsworth Long fellow, just rising to fame, was then an instructor, whom the students loved as a man of great sweetness of nature, of most universal culture, and a most thorough gentleman. Josiah Quincy, the President of the College, was a man of the greatest public gifts. He was remarkably eloquent and so broadminded that he made...
History, however, was not his only field for serious work, as he gained his his first renown as a philosophical interpreter and a writer on scientific subjects. Besides his great work on the history of the United States, he gained fame by his "Idea of God," "The Destiny of Man," and "Through Nature to God." His wide reputation was not due to books alone, as he was at one time the most popular American lecturer on serious subjects. In all his work his ability to make everything clear and easy to understand and to enliven the least interesting themes, made...
...many and varied for the improvement of the conditions sur-sounding the poor. Tammany, in fact, has an elaborate system whereby its followers are supplied with food, fuel and work; but the funds used in this way consist o hush-money drawn from gambling dives and houses of ill-fame. This money should be stopped at its source and never be allowed to purchase exemption from...
...first success of Coppee was in 1869 when both he and Madame Bernhardt won fame in "Passant," Since that time he has produced "Severe Torelli," "Jacobites," and "Pour la Couronne." Of Richepin little need be said except that his masterpiece is "Le Filibustier...
...York University has received a gift of $100,000 to be used in building a Hall of Fame for great Americans. The building is to be a colonade five hundred feet long, located on University Heights and facing the palisades. One hundred and fifty panels, each about two by eight feet will be provided for inscriptions. Fifty of these will be inscribed in 1900, provided fifty names are approved. At the close of every five years additional panels will be inscribed so that the entire number will be completed by the year...