Word: bishop
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hamline University, Minnesota, has just dedicated a new University Hall and a Chemical and Physical Laboratory. Bishop C. D. Foss delivered the dedicatory address. During the exercises $30,000 was subscribed, which fully covers the debt incurred in the construction of the buildings...
...library is one of the largest among the colleges and contains over 60,000 volumes besides many rare manuscripts. New College belies its name, as it was founded in 1586 and besides the usual amount of plate and relics has the crozier of its founder William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester, wonderfully wrought in silver gilt and studded with jewels and probably the finest relic of its kind in the world. Lincoln and St. John Colleges are smaller than the average and of but little interest with the exception that the former contains a manuscript copy of the Wycliffe bible...
...College was founded by William of Wayneflete, an English bishop, in 1457, but was not erected until between 1475 and 1481. The buildings proper cover about eleven acres, inclosing three quadrangles of unequal size, while the grounds belonging to the institution have an extent of over one hundred acres. passing through a narrow gateway on the High street, the visitor reaches the first quadrangle called St. John the Ba tist's. In this quadrangle an annual service is held from an old altar standing in one corner, on the day set aside as sacred to that saint. The court...
...novelists are at a discount, none of them getting a tenth of Mr. Tennyson's votes, Black, Shorthouse, and Blackmore being the most favored in that way. Among the poets Swinburn, 262, comes next to Browning. The forty ends with the names of two distinguished biblical scholars, Bishop Lightfoot and Canon Westcott. Though of necessity containing many of the lights of English Literature this "forty " is by no means representative, containing as it does the names of so many second rate writers. A full list of the "forty" is given in the Pall Mall Budget for November...
United States Senators Bayard and Morrill, Professor Goldwin Smith, Gov. Cleveland, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Andrew D. White, Rev. Joseph Pullman, Judge Thomas C. Manning, Bishop Ponick, Congressman John Goode, Charles Dudley Warner, Bishop Bowman, Rev. Robert Collyer, besides such orators as President Porter of Yale and President Barnard of Columbia, are among the college commencement orators of this year...