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...concert will be given, and the clubs will then make a tour of Southern England, visiting the principal watering places, including Southport, Brighton and Portsmouth. The principal towns of Wales and Northern England will then be visited. At least two concerts will be given in Scotland - at Glasgow and Edinburgh...
...Phillip Livingston, 1737; Lewis Morris, 1746, and Lyman Hall, 1747; Princeton two - Richard Stockton and Benjamin Rush; William and Mary three - Thomas Jefferson, C. Braxton, and George Wythe; College of Philadelphia three - William Paca, Matthew Hopkinson, and James Smith; Cambridge (Eng.) three - Arthur Middleton, Thomas Lynch, and Thomas Nelson; Edinburgh - John Witherspoon. James Wilson studied at Edinburgh, St. Andrews, and Glasgow, and Charles Carroll of Carrollton at several foreign Jesuit colleges, as well as law at the Temple...
...Houston, and W. R. Davie; William and Mary five - John Edmund Randolph, George Wythe, James McClurg, and J. F. Mercer; Columbia (King's) two - Alexander Hamilton and Gouverneur Morris; College of Philadelphia two - Thomas Mifflin and Hugh Williamson; Oxford (Eng.) - Charles Cotesworth Pinckney; Glasgow R. D. Spaight; Edinburgh, St. Andrews and Glasgow - James Wilson. Of the thirty-nine whose names were appended to the document, seventeen were college bred...
Stevenson was not an Oxford man, but an idle student at a poor University of Edinburgh, where he occupied himself chiefly in learning to write. He was never the least bit of a snob but was, on the other hand, a good deal of a bohemian. All lovers of Bohemia would enjoy his "Providence and the Guitar...
...ordained a minister of the Scotch Church and became an active supporter of Dr. Chalmers in the establishment of the Free Church. He married Miss Isabel Guthrie, a niece of Dr. Thomas Guthrie, the distinguished Edinburgh clergyman. In 1851 he was appointed professor of logic at Queen's College, Belfast. There he remained till he was called to be president of Princeton College in 1866. He resigned that office in 1888, and thereafter lived in comparative retirement. His death had been expected for some time as he failed rapidly within the last few months...