Word: britain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...James Russell Lowell, minister to the court of St. James, as lord rector of the University of Glasgow, seems to have occasioned considerable discussion. A few days ago a resolution of inquiry was offered in the House of Representatives for "information as to whether the minister to Great Britain has received any title of nobility, such as 'lord rector,' from any foreign state, and whether such English lord is still retained in the service of the United States...
...universities and colleges of Scotland differ so widely from our own that some explanation is needed of the contests over the election of "lord rector," one of which, as the cable informs us, has resulted in the elevation of James Russell Lowell, our minister to Great Britain, to the lord rector ship of St. Andrew's University. Since 1858 the Scottish universities, however differently organized before that time, have had a uniform constitution, created by the "university act." This act was referred to by Earl Selborne, who, having been asked the other day whether Mr. Lowell was eligible...
James Bryce, Esq., M. P., lectured last evening before a large audience in Sanders Theatre, on the Election methods in Great Britain. Reports of both yesterday's and tonight's lecture will appear in tomorrow's HERALD-CRIMSON...
...volumes on the scientific exploration of Algiers in 1840-42, published in Paris, are placed under the head of Science. Under Fine Arts, we note a number of catalogues of coins, prints, drawings, marbles and photographs in the British Museum. Eight volumes of "Chronicls and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages" are valuable contributions to the department of British history. The list of accessions to the library covers over thirty-nine pages of the bulletin. In the Harvard necrology is recorded the deaths of twenty-four Harvard men. The classified index to maps in Petermann...
...many of the larger towns and smaller cities of Great Britain during the last few years, there have been formed clubs whose raison d'etre is organization as mock parliaments...