Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1875-1875
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...address, Pietas et Gratulatio, was issued from the College on the occasion of the death of George II. and the accession to the throne of George III. Governor Bernard, the loyalist, laid the corner-stone of Harvard Hall in 1764, and, until 1769, the College was outwardly, at least, thoroughly loyal...
...House of Representatives, having complained of being intimidated by the British troops in Boston, was prorogued to Cambridge by Governor Bernard, May 1769, and took up their quarters in the College halls, without even taking the trouble to ask leave of the Corporation. But the most friendly relations existed between the two, and the House of Representatives dined with the Corporation at the next Commencement...
...reverse, but a sort of intellectual development, and alteration in the point of view from which men regard life. Now these changes are so various that it never occurred to us that they could be comprised under a single formula, till we stumbled across a remark in De Bernard's Gerfaut, one of the most worthless of French novels. The clown of the story has a social theory which he is constantly uttering, - that mankind is comprehende din three classes: gentilsh mmes, bourgeois, artistes, and to these he always adds, "et moi, je suis artiste." Gentilhomme, as he uses...