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Richard de Bury was born at Bury St. Edmunds in 1287. He graduated at Oxford and became tutor to the Prince of Wales, aferwards Edward III. When Edward came to the throne, Richard de Bury was consecrated Bishop of Durham and afterwards was made Lord Treasurer and Lord High Chancellor. In 1343 he went into retirement and began a work on his "Philobiblon," which he finished in 1345, three months before his death...
...Frothingham was the son of Nathaniel Lengdon Frothingham and was born in Boston on Nov. 26, 1822. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1843, and after three years in the divinity school was ordained pastor of the North Church (Unitarian) at Salem, Mass., on March 10, 1847. He preached in Jersey City, N. J., in 1855-'59, then removed to New York, and became pastor of a congregation that in 1860 was organized as "The Third Unitarian Congregational Church," and represented the most radical branch of his denomination. He dissolved this society in 1879, and went to Europe...
...Lowering of wages: Smith, Em. and Im. p. 140.- (3) Lowering the standard of living: Yale Review, I. 135 (Aug. 1892).- (4) Labor troubles increased: F. A. Walker in American Economic Association Papers, III, 170-172.- (c) Social.- (1) Excessive proportion of paupers are foreign born.- (2) Of insane and diseased persons.- (3) Of criminals: H. C. Lodge, The Census and Immigration, in Century, XLVI. 737-739 (Sept. 1893).- (4) Colonies in cities and country are formed by immigrants: J. Strong, Our Country. pp. 59, 60; Yale Review, I, 134 (Aug. 1892).- (5) Corruption of American morals: Henry Rood, Mine...
...Smith was born in Boston, Oct. 28, 1808. He was a member of the Eliot School, leaving it at the age of eleven years. He was a Franklin Medal scholar, and won a gold medal for a poem while at the Latin School, from which he graduated in 1825. He graduated from Harvard in 1829, and from here he went to the Andover Theological Seminary, where he remained until...
...Hermann Zinkeisen, and was born in Milwaukee in April, 1867. He attended Hopkinson's school in Boston...