Word: founder
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Last Friday evening Professor Churchill of Andover read before the college and invited friends. The entertainment was given in honor of the birthday of the founder of the college, and took the place of the supper, which in former years it has been customary to give to the college...
...university, but merely an examining body for granting degrees, and it does that kind of work thoroughly. The University of Durham is new and not yet prominent. The new university at Manchester is the outgrowth of Owens College and was originally endowed, like the Johns Hopkins, by a private founder, afterwards by subscriptions. It has become known chiefly by its work in natural science but desires to encourage humanistic studies equally. We anticipate a great future for it. None of the English or Scotch universities are denominational; none have now (since 1871) religious tests, except that the established church...
...various officers of the college. They are taken at the early age of six years, some of them ignorant of the alphabet, and are kept under "tutors and governors" for eight years; then if suitable places can be found are apprenticed to some trade. The design of the founder was to make practical men, hence classical training was neither enjoined nor forbidden in the will. The students, therefore, seem immature compared with those of New England universities. The principal building is fireproof; even the roof is built of slabs of marble. The stairs from bottom to top are self-supporting...
Joseph Earl Sheffield, the founder of the Yale Sheffield Scientific School, died yesterday...
Yesterday was Founder's Day at Cornell, and consequently no college exercises were held...