Word: historian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
Canon Stubbs, the well known historian, has recently been raised to the bishopric of Chester. This appointment creates a vacancy in the Regius professorship of Modern History at Oxford, and efforts are being made to induce Mr. Freeman to accept this chair...
...Christopher Wren, the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, was a fellow of All Souls, and Froude, the historian, of Jesus College. Dr. Johnson studied at Pembroke, and many of his copybooks and manuscripts are to be seen there. Blackstone, of law fame, was also a student of this college. Magdalen, although not the most celebrated for learning or age, has the most beautiful surroundings, and is perhaps a favorite among the English. Brasenose gets its peculiar name from the fact that one of its halls stands on the site of an old brasen-hus or brewery...
...graduates of Harvard who reside in Washington are to form a Harvard Club. Hon. Geo. Bancroft, '17, the historian, will be the first president...
...Hedge, preached at Cornell on Sunday last. The Sun gives the following sketch of his life : "Dr. Hedge is now an old man. He was born, the son of a Harvard professor, in 1805. Among the friends of his boy-hood was the historian, George Bancroft, in company with whom, in 1818, he went to Germany, where he studied for several years before returning to take his own course at Harvard. His university and theological course completed he entered at once with all zest into the work of the Unitarian ministry, and during the thirty years ensuing gave...