Word: chartering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...richness and fullness of this actor's passion. The best exposition of acting is given by Shakspere himself, and thus the poet recognizes the actor's art. The great poet believed in holding the mirror up to nature, and it is to him that the actor points for the charter of his profession...
Just twenty-four years ago, in January, 1861, a charter was granted by the State of Massachusetts to incorporate what is now known as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 1865 the first pupils, 27 in number, gathered for instruction in this new scientific college. How rapid its growth has been during the succeeding twenty years is shown by the number of students in attendance to-day, 579, which includes several women. This rapid growth is largely due to the high aims of the founder and first president, Wm. B. Rogers, whose plan was to have the institution first...
...besides being the first American college planned by British Colonists, (it was in fact the first planned by British Colonists in any part of the world), it was the first to receive a Royal Charter, while in its actual establishment it yields to Harvard alone...
...average cost of a boy at Eton is estimated to be from L180 to L220; at Harrow, from L135 to L180; at Winchester, L115; at Rugby, L112; at Charter House, L110, and at Marlborough L110 to L100. The cost at Eton is therefore obviously excessive, and it is questioned whether any one connoted with it could give a good reason for this...
Some obscurity rests over the earliest history of the Edinburgh foundation, but a positive date is reached, April 24, 1852, when King James VI. signed a charter giving power to the town council of Edinburgh to provide for higher education in humanity and in the tongues, in philosophy, theology, medicine, law and other liberal sciences. Thus, "the municipal authorities and clergy of Edinburgh were entrusted forever with the absolute control of higher education within the Burgh." On the 16th of October, 1583, the magistrates of Edinburgh appointed a committee to devise the order of teaching to be kept...