Word: andrew
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Liberal," says the London Times, "or for the Minister of the United States at St. James', that the St. Andrew's student voted; it was for the author of the 'Biglow Papers' and 'Under the Willows' and 'Among My Books.' Their candidate was the friend of Hawthorne, the successor to Long fellow's chair at Harvard; one of the leaders in the society which has invested Cambridge, in Massachusetts, with something of the halo of Weimar; the expert in English Literature who has redeemed the name of Fielding from unmerited reproaches...
...Washington Harvard Club has perfected an organization by the election of the following officers: President, George Bancroft; vice-presidents, John A. King, Henry Adams, Jesse Brown, C. W. McDonaid, A. A. Hayes; secretary, George B. Loring; treasurer Andrew H. Alden. The club will give its first annual dinner on the second Wednesday in February...
...recent London letter to a New York daily says in relation to Prof. Lowell's election to the rectorship of St. Andrews : "We have no equivalent for this office at either Oxford or Cambridge, the undergraduates there having no voice in the election of any of their principals. Mr. Lowell ought to be pleased with St. Andrew's when he goes down to give his address. It is a picturesque old-world place, with the gray ivy-clad ruins of the ancient cathedral and castle standing in the midst of the clean, prim town, the old library, with its many...
...differ so widely from our own that some explanation is needed of the contests over the election of "lord rector," one of which, as the cable informs us, has resulted in the elevation of James Russell Lowell, our minister to Great Britain, to the lord rector ship of St. Andrew's University. Since 1858 the Scottish universities, however differently organized before that time, have had a uniform constitution, created by the "university act." This act was referred to by Earl Selborne, who, having been asked the other day whether Mr. Lowell was eligible to the rectorship, replied that "nothing...
...London Daily News said of Mr. Lowell's candidacy for the Lord Rectorship of the University of St. Andrew's : "Every one will be pleased if the St. Andrew's men elect Mr. Lowell. The choice will be all literary, and not in the least political. The election of Mr. Lowell will be a graceful compliment to a distinguished scholar, humorist and University man, from a country which is always receiving English visitors with the warmest welcome. Mr. Lowell's charming gifts as a speaker cannot but be welcome in the holder of an office, where to make a speech...