Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Executive Council is a relic of Colonial government: Fiske, Civil Gov't., pp. 161-164; Nation, LII, 251 (Mch. 26. 1891). - (a) The crown governors had been arbitary; - (b) The people feared to put the executive power in the hands...
...first to be founded in 1636; William and Mary next in 1692; Yale in 1701, and Princeton in 1746. The charter for the University of Pennsylvania was granted in 1749, and eight years later, in 1757, King's College was founded in New York city. An iron crown was placed upon it, as the emblem of royalty, but this was removed when the institution took the name of Columbia College. The Rhode Island College, established in 1763, is what is now knows as Brown University. The nucleus from which Dartmouth College started was a school founded...
...close sympathy and keen appreciation of its difficulties. The results accomplished demonstrate the real nature of the athletic revival which has taken place at Harvard; they show that the best elements of Harvard life are in our athletics. Such work as has been done this year is its own crown. Victory can add something, but is not essential to the satisfaction we derive from it. Whether we win the game at Springfield or not, the really substantial glory of the foot ball season, the work done by Captain Trafford and his men, will remain the same. They have overcome discouragements...
President Charles F. Thwing of Adelbert College, in an article in the Journal of Education for this week, discusses the advisability of Boston's making use of Harvard as a public university. A plan was proposed by which Boston should found a university to serve as a crown for her magnificent system of public schools. It was suggested to use some of the High School buildings, and with this saving it was thought that the current expenses could be reduced to $100,000. This was one plan. The other was to found scholarships to send men to other universities...
Greek 6 will finish Demosthenes' "Oration on the Crown" before the holidays...