Word: england
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...telegram was received yesterday afternoon at the Gymnasium from Mr. Gavin, representative in New York of the National Sporting Club of London, suggesting that Harvard and Yale send representatives to England to box with representatives from Oxford and Cambridge at the Coronation...
...library is using as an autograph book for the names of distinguished visitors a handsomely bound volume which was sent over from England in 1765 by Thomas Hollis, a liberal benefactor of the University in the eighteenth century. On the first page he wrote this inscription: "This book was bound long since to serve a noble purpose. It may still serve some noble purpose in Cambridge in New England." For over a hundred and thirty-five years the volume has remained in the library unused, but henceforth it is to be kept for the signatures of visitors. The first signatures...
...world today. After graduating from Harvard in 1854, he spent two years studying abroad and then returned to Philadelphia. His "Variorum Edition of Shakespeare" is accepted by students of all nationalities as the standard work of its kind and has received warm appreciation from the leading literary critics of England and America...
...Thursdays and Saturdays at 12 o'clock in Sever 13, beginning tomorrow. Among the topics treated will be: The rise of the law of marriage of the Church as distinct from law of the State; the theory of the marital relation in the German codes; the Canon Law in England; legal impediments to marriage; the theology of marriage; the relation of marriage to modern...
...representative of a superb nationality and an imperial ruler. Universities have long memories. Forty years ago the American Union was in deadly peril, and thousands of its young men were bleeding and dying for it. It is credibly reported that at a very critical moment the Queen of England said to her prime minister: 'My Lord, you must understand that I shall sign no paper which means war with the United States.' The grandson of that illustrious woman is sitting with us here...