Word: foundering
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Museum would never have been built. He lived to see his wishes consummated and to feel a just pride in knowing that no place could be found in Europe which afforded better facilities for gaining a knowledge of the animal kingdom than the institution of which he was the founder. Here he had brought together an able and a large corps of coworkers, who carried into the prosecution of their work that enthusiasm which he, above all others, could inspire. All, young and old, loved him as a child loves a father, and the tearful eyes of some...
Very much like this fine old school was and is that of Gray Friars, the name of which reminds us that it too was established in one of the monasteries of that great order now hardly represented but by the monks of the Grande Chartreuse. The founder of Gray Friars, however, was not a king, but a very ordinary person, though wise beyond most men in the disposal of his fortune, - one Thomas Sutton, whose death, December 14, 1611, is yearly commemorated on Founder's Day by the whole school, as all will remember who have read the Newcomes, though...
...foundation, yet the proportion of celebrated men is very large, - Addison, "loose Dick Steele," Thurlwall, Grote, Sir John Leech, and Thackeray standing high in the list of graduates. The last-named, Thackeray, was always very fond of his old school, and just before his death went on Founder's Day to scatter pennies among the boys...