Word: duke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Williams "Athenxum" says: 'Now that we have a chess club, why not organize a poker club. We need one. It was the immortal Duke who said: "Many an hour is wasted in vain or frivolous conversation that might be profitably employed in holding four kings...
...sacrifice himself for the success of his side, is one of the chief arguments in favor of foot ball. Any man who has learned to display determination on the foot ball field, is very certain to show it in any work of life be may afterward enter. The Duke of Wellington declared that all his great victories had been decided long before on the foot ball fields of England. Moreover, a few bruises cannot offset the advantages of that training whose great aim is to develope coolness of head and promptness of decision...
...succession to Dr. Hawtrey, the first favorite for the post was Rey. Edward Coleridge, a fellow, who was so confident of his success that he boasted on the morining of the election that he had his appointment in his pocket in the shape of a pressing letter from the Duke of Newcastle, representing the Government of the day. Two hours later came Osborne "requiring" the fellows to "elect and chosse" Dr. Goodford. The new provost must be a graduate of Oxford or Cambridge, of the degree of M. A., Thirty-five years old, and not necessarily in orders. The appointment...
...boys, the first being too valuable for schoolboy use. Like all English schools, Eton boasts of a long list of celebrated graduates, too long to enumerate, and it will be sufficient to say that Horace Walpole, Chatham, Gray, Shelley, Hallam, the historian, and the Duke of Wellington, were all Eton boys...
Heidelberg catechism was drawn up by a board of theologians specially appointed for that undertaking. The thirty years' war, responsible for so much damage and destruction, did not let Heidelberg go by unscathed and all but tore the buildings down, yet in 1803 they were restored by the Arch duke Charles Frederick, as renowned as a lover of learning as a warrior. With the university's decided tendency toward a large faculty, three years ago it could boast of thirty-eight ordinary and twenty-six extraordinary professors, with numerous instructors. While the standard of education at Heidelberg...