Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Phillips Brooks urged on those present that the Chapel was founded to represent to men that they are something more than mere students in the common acceptance of the term. The more the student knows he is a scholar the more he feels himself a man. If a man believes in Him who saved the world, his mind must become enlarged. The fragments of life are here brought into unity, and for this reason the university, and, above all, the chapel, were founded...
...ought to be said, however, that every once in a while there is a reference to the scholar's working tools, such as a billiard parlor advertisement, and also one of acid phosphate...
...violent blow that the overseers have seen fit to inflict on the classical department of the University by permitting the departure of so excellent a scholar as Professor Croswell in addition to the loss of Professor Dyer, whose scholarship is no less universally acknowledged. It is not here our place to criticise the course of events that led to this wholly unexpected - might we say unwarranted - loss. To us falls the profitless task of expressing deep regret at losing two teachers who have won the esteem and the thanks of so many of our number. We are convinced that...
...eagerness of our men of wealth to take the place which ancient governments fill in Europe as patrons of learning is one of our national glories, to which each year of history adds new lustre. We must all feel a pride in the words with which the distinguished English scholar, Dr. Lightfoot, the bishop of Durham, recently urged his countrymen to emulate our example in establishing a School at Athens. He said, at a public meeting in London...
...lose, if we are to avail ourselves of this opportunity. It should certainly be an object of national pride not only to secure the permanent establishment of an institution which is so full of promise to American scholarship, but at the same time to reclaim for his country a scholar who has gained laurels in the service of a foreign university. America cannot afford to let her scholars seek employment among strangers while they are so much needed for the instruction of her own students...