Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...late as 1817 a Hebrew, oration was annually delivered at Harvard. Prof. Edward J. Young, formerly of Cambridge, has given (in a paper before the Massachusetts Historical Society, June 1880), some amusing illustrations of the difficulty experienced in teaching Hebrew at Harvard in old colonial days. For instance, Michael Wigglesworth, who taught in 1653, writes...
...having asked Prof. Stuart whether there were many Hebrew scholars in his classes, and the reply was very few. Still there were able Hebrew and Oriental professors four or five decades ago, and the early professors of Hebrew at the University of the City of New York, Isaac Nordheimer, Edward Robinson and Taylor Lewis, were men whose learning left its impress on their time...
...treasurer, Edward W. Hooper, reports that the totals of general investments of funds are $4,577,475,01. from which the income was $225,462,44, and those of special investments are $613,267,34, the income being...
...called the "Seminary of American History and Economics," meets every Friday evening for two hours. The exercises consist of reviews of current historical and economic literature and the presentation and discussion of papers. During the fall months two live talks on current questions were given. The first was by Edward P. Allinson, a young lawyer in Philadelphia, interested in the reform movement in city politics there. Mr. Allinson gave a running epitome of his historical study of "City Government in Philadelphia." The second was by Senator Dawes, who at a public meeting of the seminary last December most clearly...
...persons having an income of less that $500 a year. Reliable statistics prove that the receipts of the laboring classes in England have increased 200 per cent. during the last fifty years. The gains of capital have been augmented by only 15 per cent. during the same period. Mr. Edward Atkinson is authority for the statement that average wages in the United States have increased one third since...