Word: britain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Francis Britain Fay, senior, a prize of $50 for a dissertation on "The International Signal Service...
...Oxford-Cambridge races since 1829 is shown by a carefully compiled "Record of the University Boat Races 1829-1880," recently published in London, to be below the average death rate. Out of 485 who had taken part in these races there were 870 survivors residing in Great Britain two years ago, besides others who could not be traced. Many of these had become clergyman, several reaching the position of bishops. The legal profession also absorbed many, justices of the English bench being among this number. Mr. Waddington, ex-premier of France, rowed in 1849, and Dr. Hornby, headmaster of Eton...
Prof. G. H. Palmer is the American member of a committee formed in Great Britain to prevent the running of a railroad through the Berrowdale, one of the historic places of England. At the head of the committee are Tennyson, Browning and Ruskin...
...women was organized at St. Petersburg and the first year's course was attended by 106 women. The course has now been abolished. Sweden offered a medical career to women by royal decree in 1870, and several courses are now open to them in the various colleges. In Great Britain the University of London offers degrees to women in every course but medicine; the University of Cambridge in all courses. The Royal University of Ireland is open in all its branches to women students, and the institution and success of Girton College in England is well known. In addition...
...studies in Cambridge. While there he became a member of the famous university debating-club, the Cambridge Union, and in that body, during that darkest period of our Civil War, when all England looked with sympathy upon the rebellion, he drew great attention to himself, both in great Britain and America, by his cogent and eloquent arguments in behalf of the Northern States. On his return he delivered before the Lowell Institute in Boston a course of lectures on the University of Cambridge, which were afterward republished under the title of 'On the Cam.' Prof. Everett has since distinguished himself...