Word: deanship
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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When the town fell, he withdrew to his deanship at Ireland, embraced the Irish cause, and hurled her rage and wrongs against England. It was at this time that his "Gulliver's Travels" appeared. - beautiful, vivacious, intense in realization and grotesque in combination. Yet, though his best-known work, it is not his most meritorious nor his worst representative...
Professor Smith has taken this step in order to spend more time upon the duties of his Professorship. Two years ago he determined to give up his Deanship, but was induced to delay his resignation until this year so that the new system might be got well under way. He has held the office longer than any other man. If the man who is chosen to fill the office proves to be so fully in sympathy with the students as Professor Smith has been, the undergraduates may consider themselves very well...