Word: establishing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...opportunity is now offered to act on this proposition and establish a precedent for the future. It would be most fitting to show last year's 'Varsity nine that their improvement and ultimate success is still thoroughly appreciated. We would therefore suggest that steps be taken toward starting a general fund to which everyone should subscribe a little, and present the nine with cups in commemoration of their victories...
...reading the "Martyrs" of Chateaubriand and the novels of Walter Scott that Augustin Thierry felt himself develop into an historian. His object was to establish peace between science and art, with scientific and artistic arrangement of material. He is endowed with an imagination which raises images, landscapes and people before the eyes of the reader. His histories where he describes events, paints scenes and outlines characters,- for instance, the "Conquete de l'Angleterre par les Normands" and "Recits Merovingiens,"- are very close in style to novels or epic poems...
...view of the fact that bicycling has gained such prominence of late it was unanimously voted to establish a cycling association which will hold championship races entirely separate from the regular meeting...
...bill is pending before the Senate to establish a free national university, in accordance with the wishes of George Washington, who indicated in his will as his preference for the site the land now occupied by the old Naval Observatory, and who left a large endowment fund, which has been lost, through negligence on the part of the government. The object of this bill is to found an institution, which would obviate the necessity of foreign study. The present general movement in favor of the university was begun in 1891 by the appointment of a committee, of which Chief Justice...
...regents of the University of California have decided to establish a college of commerce as one of the departments of the university...