Word: establishing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...trustees of Columbia College have voted to place a suitable tablet in the new library given by President Low, in commemoration of the gift, and to establish a professorship in history, to be know as the "Seth Low" Professorship of American History...
...representatives of six universities, it was resolved to found an historical review under the above title. There has long been need of a periodical devoted entirely to history. Considering the large number of historical scholars and writers and the growing interest in their subject, it seems fitting to establish a medium through which they may communicate to each other the results of their own work, bring American scholarship into relations with that of other countries and place before the public in interesting literary form trustworthy views and conclusions on historical subjects...
...will be an unusually interesting one, it will be seen that it will require a fair amount of outside work, and no one who is unwilling to give sufficient time to the subject should elect it. The primary object is to make men read current literature intelligently and to establish sound principles of criticism...
...announcement that the committee in charge of the George William Curtis memorial fund have decided to establish a revolving lectureship, the incumbent of which is to deliver lectures at Yale, among other colleges, is peculiarly gratifying, inasmuch as the opportunities of hearing men of attainment are rare at Yale at present. These lectures will doubtless prove to be very interesting, as a civic subject, similar in scope to the questions to which Mr. Curtis devoted his life work, will be chosen by the holder of the lectureship...
...partial in the slightest degree; the idea is simply absurd. He is here to teach us to row, a position for which his thorough knowledge of the science adapts him; he is here to pull us out of the hole into which we have fallen and to establish a system which shall win, as it must, a full share of victories in the future...