Word: founder
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cornell University has oil portraits of its founder, of James Russel Lowell, Goldwin Smith, and of Louis Agassiz; all by the painter Carpenter. Dr. William D. Wilson and John McGraw, (by Purdy,) Justin H. Morrill, (by Johnson,) and Peter Cooper (by a student at Cooper Union) are represented. There are portraits of Humboldt, Garret Smith, and Prudence Crandall, who organized a school for colored children in the early days of Abolitionism. Busts of Lincoln, by Vinnie Ream-Hoxie; of Prof. G. W. Greene, by Crawford; of President White, William C. Russell, and Dr. Wilson, form some of the historical pieces...
...intermission, there is no vacation, nor a single holiday with the exception of Christmas. Thanksgiving, New year's, Washington's birthday are simply the last Thursday in November, January 1, and February 22, to the stern calendar in vogue here, and Saturday shines not as a holiday. Even the founder's day of certain Northern colleges is denied the plodding student. One would say that he ought to get through with an immense deal of work, and the local legend is certainly to that effect. The seriousminded alumnus of the University of Virginia assumes a fine disdain for the lotus...
...successors to the Harvard Echo, we have every now and then received matter addressed to it, but. not until yesterday were we made aware that it had female contributors. Then we are received a letter from the founder of a "School of Industrial Art for Women," asking for the help of our late contemporary "so far as to publish the whole or any part of the enclosed article, that all women among your contributors, needing help. (and I doubt not there are many) may know of this opportunity and avail themselves of it." We thoroughly appreciate the efforts...
Professor Huxley contributes a brief paper to the Agnostic Annual, claiming to be the founder of agnosticism...
...founded, and sends his own sons to them, while he has in contemplation the establishment of a girl's school in which his own daughter will be educated The public schools, supported by government, which were formed in the beginning of the century, by the enlightened Mehemet Ali, the founder of the present dynasty, are well organized and embrace a pretty thorough course of study. They are divided into civil and military schools, the latter of which include every branch of military education. The former are subdivided into primary, secondary, and special schools. Three years are spent in each...