Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Whereas, Death hath struck from us a man whose efficiency as a teaching scholar we valued supremely, whose erudition we knew to be extraordinary, yet whose personal kindness and "patient gentility" in his dealings with us we loved as qualities worth emulating, in our dealings with each other...
...Whereas, Professor Warren created in each of his pupils the feeling that only through taking infinite pains and through perpetuate it to posterity, showing in his own earnest toil and gentle teaching the scholar's high faithfulness to Truth Absolute...
...execution by the Harvard Memorial Society, an organization which endeavors to commemorate in fitting fashion all the occasions worthy of notice in connection with this University. A Memorial Society! What a prodigious memorial John Harvard has in this University, which men have raised here on his foundation. The young scholar, seven years at Cambridge University, coming to America as a young, untried minister, dying within a few months of his arrival--he little thought of what a fine monument he was building for himself. And best of all it is a living, growing monument, which will be greater 300 years...
...Parker tablet, a gift of the late Rev. John Haynes through J. H. Holmes '02, is on the east wall of the chapel. It is of plain white marble, and bears the following inscription: "Theodore Parker, 1810-1860. Graduate of this school in 1836. Preacher, reformer, scholar; master of wide learning applied to human uses by frank and unsparing speech; fearless follower of Jesus, bearing witness to the truth; lover of righteousness, hater of iniquity; a hero in fight, a saint in prayer; he proclaimed as human invitations the perfection of God, the authority of conscience, the assurance of immortality...
...prize of $45 is offered to the "best scholar in Spanish, who shall have commenced the study of that language at Harvard College, and whose scholarship shall be determined by his proficiency in Spanish composition." Notice of intention to compete for this prize must be sent to the Recorder on or before...