Word: historian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Herman E. Von Holst, has consented to leave Freiburg University to accept an appointment to the chair in History. He is a statesman as well as historian, being a member of the Upper house in Germany; he is also an honored fellow in the Prussian Academy of Sciences...
...James Schouler of Boston, the well-known historian, began his course of ten lectures on "American Political History" Wednesday at John Hopkins University...
...Yale seniors at a meeting recently elected Alfred Lawrence Spencer of New Haven class historian, vice Hugh Aiken Bayne of New Orleans, La., resigned...
...thing in the whole room is a ghastly death mask. It is a copy of the original death mask of Oliver Cromwell, and contains quite a history. A number of years ago, the sculptor, Thomas Woolner, who is the author of the famous bust of Carlyle, presented to the historian a cast taken directly from the original death mask of Cromwell, which is in his possession. In 1873, Carlyle. in turn, gave it to Charles Eliot Norton. Later, when Carlyle left to Harvard his valuable library of works on Cromwell, which he had collected during the studies for his essay...
President, John B. Kouwenhoven, of Flatbush, N. Y.; secretary, William H. Prentice, of New York City; master of ceremonies, Peter Vredenburgh, of Freehold, N. J.; poet, Jesse L. Williams, of Princeton, Ill.; class orater, Joseph M. Shellabarger, of Topeka, Kansas; ivy orator, John G. Wilson, of Baltimore, Md; historian, John M Mayhew, of Beatrice, Nebraska; presentation orator, Charles W. Somerry, of Philadelphia, Pa.; prophet, Leon M. Conwell, of Philadelphia, Pa.; censor, Charles P. Spooner, of Hudson, Wis.; Washington's birthday orator, William W. Smith, of Hollidaysburg, Pa.; Washington's birthday debater, Leroy Gresham, of Baltimore, Md.; Nassau Herald committee...