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...regarded during this period as an ineffectual student, a boy of vague intents, a sporting blood. He first planned on medicine for a career, then thought of entering the ministry. But something happened that changed his life and the history of the world. A Captain (later Admiral) Fitz-Roy was leaving England to tour the world in a boat called The Beagle. Darwin wanted to go. His father forbade the trip provisionally but arguments were found to convince him, and in December of 1831 The Beagle put to sea from Barn-pool, carrying Darwin and 73 men below her narrow...
...received honorary degrees, among them: Charles Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to the U. S.; George Howard Ferguson, Premier of Ontario; Stephen Leacock, economist & humorist; Frederick Paul Keppel, President of the Carnegie Foundation; John Huston Finley, editor of of New York Times; Dr. Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell University; Ellen Fitz Pendleton, President of Wellesley College; Henry M. Tory, President of the University of Alberta; Richard W. Livingston, President & Vice Chancellor of Queens University, Belfast...
Proprietors of what lay back of the grilled iron portals agreed. They summoned a mechanic, ordered him to remove the obstruction so that next week 300 seniors in Princeton University could pass through the Fitz Randolph Gates to receive their diplomas...
...perhaps richest New Englander ($50,000,000), who built the world's second largest stockyard in Omaha, Neb.; in Boston. With his three brothers he started his career by buying a gold mine near Pike's Peak, Col., which was thought to be a quartz claim. General Fitz-John Porter† attempted to bore into the claim. Gold-miner Smith forthwith made an opening into the outlaw shaft from below, built a fire, and smoked out the General's workers. The General promptly installed a huge fan which blew the smoke down into the Smith workings...
...Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duque de Alba, 10th Duke of Berwick, descendant (as his name suggests) of an illegitimate son of King James II, eleven times a Grandee of Spain, and through the Larreategui family a descendant of Christopher Columbus: "As an intimate of His Most Catholic Majesty King Alfonso XIII of Spain, I have repeatedly caused newsgatherers to draw from my remarks the inference that His Majesty will soon visit the U. S. Always these reports have been denied; but last week I became so expansive that correspondents left my presence with the impression that His Majesty intends...