Word: cornelius
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...John Leverett, 1707-1724; William Wadsworth, 1725-1736; Edward Holyoke, 1737-1769; Samuel Locke, 1770-1773; Samuel Langdon, 1774-1780; Joseph Willard, 1781-1804; Samuel Webber, 1806-1810; John Thornton Kirkland, 1810-1828; Josiah Quincy, 1829-1855: Edward Everett, 1846-1849; Jared Sparks, 1849-1853; James Walker, 1853-1860; Cornelius Conway Felton, 1860-1862; Thomas Hill, 1862-1868; Charles W. Eliot...
...interest some to know what a few rich men have done for the cause of education. Johns Hopkins gave $3,148,000 to the university which he founded. His gifts for benevolent purposes amounted to $8.000,000. Judge Packer gave $3,000,000 to Lehigh University. Cornelius Vanderbilt gave $1,000,000 to the Vanderbilt University. Stephen Girard gave $8,000,000 to Girard College. John C. Green and his residuary legatees gave $1,500,000 to Princeton College. Ezra Cornell gave $1,000,000 to Cornell University. Isaac Rich bequeathed the greater part of his estate, which was appraised...
...periodicals does not seem to have proved beneficial to the literary training of contributors. The contributor to the magazine was put upon his metal to write the best essay or criticism in his power. It was in work of this kind that such men as Edward Everett, Cornelius C. Felton, J. O. Sargeaut, James Russell Lowell, Rufus King. James Freeman Clark, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and others were trained...
...country and settle in the United States. This he did and at first lived here in Cambridge. He first attracted public attention by a series of lectures which he delivered in Boston in 1848. These were spoken in French and were translated for the papers by Professor (afterwards president) Cornelius Felton, under Guyot's personal supervision. Later Guyot's went to Princeton where he has remained for thirty years...
...trees with piles of fruit, the outspread shade, and water outpoured" could not comfort him in his really very natural shyness. A happy thought occurred to me. In early and credulous youth I had studied the works of Cornelous youth I had studied the works of Cornelius Agrippa and Petrus de Abano. Their lessons, which had not hitherto been of much practical service, recurred to my mind. Stooping down I drew a circle round myself and my old friend in the fragrant white blossoms which were strewn so thick that they quite hid the grass. This circle I fortified...