Word: bains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...current number of the Popular Science Monthly contains the rectorial address of Dr. Alexander Bain to the students of Aberdeen University, Scotland, taking for his subject "The University Ideal." Prof. Bain gives a description of the origin of the university system, of its gradual growth and progress up to the present day, and an exhaustive discussion of what in his opinion constitutes an ideal university. The university proper can hardly be dated back earlier than the twelfth century; and the important particulars in its first constitution were these: First, the separation of philosophy from theology. Aristotle and the awakening intellect...
...Nimmo & Bain are about to issue a new library edition of Dr. Lingard's "History of England," in ten volumes, octavo, with all the copyright additions...
Alexander Bain has been made Emeritus Professor of Logic at Aberdeen University...
...life of John Stuart Mill, by Alexander Bain, will be published in America by H. Holt...
...noted scholars and professors of England of today Oxford has Max Muller, George Rawlinson, Benj. Jewett and J. C. Shairp; Cambridge, Professors Seeley and Fawcett; the University of London has Professors Ward, Henry Morley, Schmitz, Lankester, Bobertson and Thorold Rogers. In Scotland, Alex. Bain, Principal Tulloch, Peter Baynes and David Mason; and Dowden, the Shakesperean scholar, is at Dublin...