Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college is notably fortunate in the matter of free scholarships, the present number being sixty-five. A gift of $40,000 has just been received by the college for the establishment of a professorship to be called the "Emma Speare Huntington Professorship," after the daughter of the donor, Hon. Alden Spear...
Miss Mary Dickens, grand-daughter of the novelist has gone on the stage to earn her livelihood...
...universities, there is also to be a performance of a Greek play. It is understood that the "Electra" of Sophocles has been selected for the occasion. Not only will women alone take part in it, but as at present arranged ladies only will be admitted as spectators. A daughter of the premier, Miss Helen Gladstone, the vice-principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, will probably have a voice in the arrangements. It may perhaps be considered apropos to this topic if I mention here that the subject of the new opera by Mr. W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan will...
...life" of Alice, Duchess of Hesse, the daughter of Queen Victoria, is to be published soon...
...Several schools for boys he has already founded, and sends his own sons to them, while he has in contemplation the establishment of a girl's school in which his own daughter will be educated The public schools, supported by government, which were formed in the beginning of the century, by the enlightened Mehemet Ali, the founder of the present dynasty, are well organized and embrace a pretty thorough course of study. They are divided into civil and military schools, the latter of which include every branch of military education. The former are subdivided into primary, secondary, and special schools...