Word: scotchman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Drummond, the bright young Scotchman who has been making a visit to some of the leading American colleges, says that to him their most remarkable feature is "their Christian tone.' The professor probably has not dropped around when the Harvard sophomores were hazing the freshmen, or the boys of Cornell having a cane rush, or Yale trampling Princeton's football team in the mud.- Boston Post...
When Dr. Holmes had given his muse full play and the muse had refused to say anything more, Dr. McCosh quietly took his departure and boarded the next train for Princeton. He was as indignant as a Scotchman who thinks he has cause to be generally is, and when his friends and fellow-workers at the college heard the version of all that had happened at Harvard's celebration they were indignant, too, and extremely glad that Dr. McCosh had absented himself from the banquet that was designed to act as a sort of capstone to the celebration...
...reflective men, but to be efficient men; yet they hold university training a help, and not a drawback, and except when defeated by want of means or other special circumstances, never fail to get it for their sons. All Scotchmen are not graduates, but in theory the Scotchman - who, be it remembered, is not led away on the subject either by flunkyism or sentiment, or any strong wish that his sons should have an easy time - holds decidedly that they ought to be, that it would be well if they could be, and that if they were the work would...
...graduate: "The Rev. George Gordon of Greenwich, Conn., has been called to the pastorship of the Old South Church, Boston - one of the 'softest,' as it is one of the most historical, pulpits in the United States. The salary is $8000 a year and parsonage. Mr. Gordon is a Scotchman, thirty years old, and unmarried. He worked his way through Harvard, overcoming many obstacles incident to poverty, and graduated with high honors. President Eliot speaks of him as one of the most remarkable graduates for many years...
CARLYLE was a Scotchman, but his literary career must be of peculiar interest to Americans. If ever it was true that a prophet is not recognized in his own country, it was true of Carlyle. For a long time he could find no publisher for his "Sartor Resartus," and it had to be published piecemeal in a magazine. It was left to a Harvard graduate to collect the scattered papers into a book, which thus established his fame. His miscellaneous Essays, contributed to various English magazines, were collected by the same loving hand and first published in this country...