Word: hallam
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There is, however, another library for the use of the boys, the first being too valuable for schoolboy use. Like all English schools, Eton boasts of a long list of celebrated graduates, too long to enumerate, and it will be sufficient to say that Horace Walpole, Chatham, Gray, Shelley, Hallam, the historian, and the Duke of Wellington, were all Eton boys...
...History X. yesterday. Members of the section are requested to read Chapter XIV. Hallam for the next lecture...
...Tennyson, through his son Hallam, has replied to the temperance society which recently forwarded him a resolution expressing regret at the "drink" passages in his new song. "My father begs to thank the committee," the son writes, "for their resolution. No one honors more highly the good work done by them than my father. I must, however, ask you to remember that the 'common cup' has in all ages been employed as a sacred symbol of unity, and that my father has only used the word 'drink' in reference to this symbol. I much regret that it should have been...
THOMAS CARLYLE cared very little for honors, but in 1875 he accepted the degree of LL. D. from Harvard University. Among other prominent foreign literary men who have received honorary degrees are Whately, Lyell, Henry Holland, Hallam, Guizot, Baron Napier, J. S. Mill, and Martineau...