Word: halifax
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...John M. Barnaby of Halifax, N. S., a graduate of Harvard, class of '63, died recently in that city. He was sixty-five years...
Among the delegates appointed to attend the commemoration in June at Halifax, N. S., of the landing on the American continent of John Cabot in 1497, are Professor W. J. Ashley, of the Economic Department, as representative of Harvard University; and Dr. Benjamin Rand, of the Philosophical Department, as a representative of the American Historical Association...
...yards run-Won by T. I. Lee, N. Y. A. C.; J. D. Morrow, Toronto A. C., second; R. Q. Forbes, W. A. A. C., Halifax, third. Time, 22 4/5s...
...director of the Lick Observatory has received a telegram which announces that the Hon. Edwin Crossley, lately Member of Parliament for Halifax, England, proposes to present to the Lick Observatory his great three foot reflecting telescope, with its dome and all its apparatus complete. Mr. Crossley, himself an enthusiastic amateur astronomer, makes no conditions to his gift, except that his telescope when set up at Mt. Hamilton shall be called the Crossley Reflector and that the expenses of transporting the instrument and dome from England to California shall be borne by Americans...
After four years at Oxford, Addison obtained a pension on which to travel and prepare for diplomatic life. While in Italy he sent a piece of poetry, to Lord Halifax, an excellent piece of work, although he was only a second rate poet. On the death of the king, Addison lost his pension and in 1703 returned home to live in a garret without either profession or income. But soon he got a position and honors flowed upon him, when the Lord Treasurer, who wanted the Blenheim victory celebrated, went to the author of the Italian letter...