Word: founder
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Founder's Day at Vassar will...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : The founder of Cornell University, in his introductory speech at the inauguration of the university, and President White, in his inaugural address, took strong ground in favor of the co-education of the sexes. This was entirely in the spirit of the liberal views which those gentlemen held in regard to education in general, which guided them in the early history of the university, which have placed Cornell in the front rank of American colleges and which are still held by the guardians of her welfare. Though the far-sighted philanthropist lives only in memory...
...dispatch from Paris dated yesterday says Karl Marx, the founder of the International Workingmen's Association, died at Argenteuil Thursday...
...death of one of the most honored and philanthropic of the friends of Harvard, Nathaniel Thayer, the founder of Thayer Hall, occurred in Boston Tuesday afternoon. He early became interested in Harvard. His direct benefactions to the university exceed $250,000, including Thayer Hall, Thayer Commons Hall, Gray Herbarium and the Thayer expedition. He has, besides, contributed generously to the support of students and those preparing to enter the university. In 1865 he provided for the students a building fronting on Harvard street which was used as a dining hall until the foundation of Memorial Hall. During this same year...
...special meeting of the Harvard overseers was held yesterday. President Eliot presented the vote of the president and fellows appointing Manuel J. Drennan assistant professor of English for five years. There was also presented a letter from the founder of the William and Samuel Eliot scholarship, asking that graduates and special students as well as members of the four college classes may be eligible to its benefits. Reports of the committees on government and mathematics, physics and chemistry, were presented and referred. The secretary offered a resolution that a professor emeritus is neither an officer of instruction nor government...