Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...reference to the calendar it will be seen that Professor Thayer will give the Bible lecture instead of Professor J. W. White who was announced in the provisional program. The lecture tonight cannot fail to be of especial interest. Professor Thayer is the leading New Testament scholar in the United States and in the discussion of the revision of 1881 he speaks as one having authority...
...dialect of Chaucer. Others helped him in the task, but he probably translated most of the New Testament; and it was finished in 1384. Tyndale's translation was the next, and his was the result of the Reformation. His translation was very thorough, for he was a good Greek scholar, while Wickliffe was not. His edition met with such opposition at Cologne that he was obliged to finish its publication elsewhere. Verse after verse of Tyndale's version is retained in our English version. Later, 1537, his edition was further revised by one Matthews, who changed it, howeher, very little...
...advanced position with regard to mental training than that of most American colleges. These have hitherto contented themselves with filling the mind with a superficial culture which finds vent in the platitudes of average commencement parts. The crying need in this country is for the development of the "modern scholar" in the true sense of the word. By means of the elective system and of advanced courses, Harvard is unabled to bring about in its graduate students ripe thought and well developed scholarships. The aim is attained by a vital and manly culture which enables each man to make...
...income of $1000 will be given to that member of the Sophomore class, who at the close of the Sophomore year, shall pass the best examination in the English studies of the year; of the income of $1500, one half will be given to the best Anglo-Saxon scholar and one half to the best English Literature scholar of the Junior class...
Charles Lowell, a first scholar, brilliant, strong, full of ideas, was killed fighting desperately in the Shenandoah campaign...