Word: britain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Doubtless few of the students of the college have learned of the gift to the corporation of $10,800 by John Tyndall. Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal Institute of Great Britain. The money was received last commencement, and its net income is to be applied to the support, at either American or European Universities, of one or more American pupils who may have some capacity in physics, and "preferably such as shall express their determination to devote their lives to the advancement of theoretic science and original investigation in that department of learning...
...Club held its second public meeting last evening before an audience of about 200 ladies and gentlemen. The programme was as follows: L. Litchfield, '85, "Rufus Choate," by Wendell Phillips. T. H. Root, '85, "Wreck of the Arctic," by H. W. Beecher. E. T. Sanford, '85, "Enmity towards Great Britain," by Rufus Choate. J. W. Richardson, '86, "Treason of Slavery," by Carl Schurz. D. Kelleher, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," by H. W. Longfellow. I. Dickerman, '86, "Sectional Services in the late War," by Caleb Cushing. E. Stevens, '86, "White Murder Trial," by Webster. T. Rogers, "Aux Haliens," by Owen...
...expected that the presidency of Girton College will be given to Mrs. Fawcelt, the widow of the Postmaster-General of Great Britain...
...usually considered to have originated in the twelfth century. There are now in Europe, no less than a hundred universities, some of them have been in existence several centuries. Germany and Italy alone possess fifty of these institutions; Eolland, Spain, Russia, and Greece, about twenty five, while Great Britain contains about a dozen. The old universities of France were swept away by the Revolution, but a new system of education has since sprung up, the centre of which, established at Paris, has direct control over all the educational matters of the country. Of the Plussial universities, those of Prague...
...expert give valuable advice to the American Congress, which at present is at a great loss to suggest a plan for resuscitating the industry of American ship-building. Such a professorship would be more appropriate however at one of our technical schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Great Britain at least has a professorship of this sort and Mr. Francis Elgar, naval architect of the city of London, has recently been unanimously elected to the chair of naval architecture in the University of Glasgow, which was recently endowed by Mr. John Elder. Mr. Elgar is a Fellow...