Word: medallist
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...when it was proposed to have a medal struck which would combine in itself a portrait of President Eliot, and a memento of the College. The matter was taken up by Mr. Frederick A. Delano '85, and through the kindness of Mr. Henry Walter S. '74, the distinguished French medallist, Leon Deschamps, was engaged to design the medal. The above cuts illustrate the medal very well, and are accurate in size. President Eliot's portrait is on one side, and the Johnston gate, with Harvard Hall and the University seal, on the other...
...arrangement has been made with the distinguished French medallist, Leon Deschamps, to make a medal, on one side of which will be a portrait of President Eliot, and on the other side, in relief, the Johnson Gate with Harvard Hall in the background. This arrangement has been made through the initiative of Mr. F. A. Delano '85 and through the kindness of Mr. H. Walters '74. Two thousand of these medals are to be struck in bronze, and if there is demand for more, fresh dies can be prepared and more medals struck off. These medals will not only combine...
...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...
...Butcher received his university education at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was the Senior Classic and Chancellor's Medallist in 1873 and held a fellowship in 1874. He was later elected, without examination, to an Extraordinary Fellowship at University College. Oxford, where he remained as lecturer until 1882, when he accepted a professorship at Edinburgh. Dr. Butcher was a member of the Scottish universities commission from 1889 to 1896, and served on the royal commission on university education in Ireland in 1901. He is well-known in this country through his writings, which include a prose translation of the Odyssey...