Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...palace of huge proportions. During this time discoveries were being made also in the southern part of Babylonia. Huge mounds were being dug out in which were buried palaces, temples and ruined cities. After this time until 1872 there was very little discovery. At that date, George Smith, an Englishman, discovered the temple of the sun-god, and in it was found immense numbers of the so-called Babylonian books...
...Lincoln College (Oxford University, England) sports, the strangers' handicap at a quarter of a mile was won from scratch by Mr. F. J. K. Cross in 49 2-5 s., the quickest time on record for an Englishman at the distance. The honor of having eclipsed all others at a quarter of a mile belongs to Wendell Baker, formerly of Harvard, whose record of 47 3-4s. made at Beacon Park, Allston, in 1886, remains unbroken...
...Henry Norman, an Englishman who graduated from Harvard eight or ten years ago, has arrived in New York from London. He is making a tour of the world in the interests of the Pall Mall Gazette, with which he is connected...
...senator from Florida, Samuel Pasco, is an Englishman. He was born in London, June 28, 1834. Ten years after his parents made their residence at Charlestown, Mass., where he received his preparatory education. He took the full course at Harvard, graduating in 1858. Early the next year he became a citizen of Florida, and taught school and read law in a place called Waukeenan...
...appealed to those who knew and esteemed it for its work's sake. It was clear that it did not appeal in vain and that it was strong in the affections of a vast body of its graduates, and in the kindly regard of its academic rivals. An Englishman might meditate on Mr. Lowell's eloquent tribute to the historic glories of Oxford and Cambridge, and think that Harvard was not without compensation for their absece. In England the alumni of the old Universities feel that they are immemorial institutions which need little help from them. The alumni of Harvard...