Word: john
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Edward Burgess received the gold medal for yacht models at the late Mechanics' Fair. Mr. John L. Frisbee, Mr. George Lawley, Mr. William R. Smith and the Boston yacht agency each received diplomas and bronze medals...
Those who are acquainted with the biography of John Harvard, founder of Harvard College are, of course, well aware of two facts: one being that the only writing of his hitherto known is that preserved in a record deposited in the registry of the University of Cambridge, consisting of two autograph signatures; the other that he and his brother Thomas jointly held certain property by lease from the Hospital of St. Katharine, near the Tower of London...
...with the kind and ready assent of the hospital authorities, search was made among the monuments, under the direction of Sir Arnold W. White, chapter clerk. The result was the unearthing of the original counterpart of the lease, dated July 29, 1635, by which the hospital demised to "John Harvard Clerke and Thomas Harvard Citizen and Clothworker of London," certain tenements in the parish of All hallows, Barking; and the counterpart is executed by John Harvard and Thomas Harvard...
...Advocate appeared yesterday afternoon, and contains much good reading matter. The editorials are bright and forcible as usual. "A Mexican Village" is a fair bit of description of the placid life in the growing state of our neighbors. "John Bryant's Ride" is an unusually well written story. In a few lines a situation is very forcibly drawn. There is not a sentence nor a word too much; the movement of the story shows great vigor. "An Automaton" is a very remarkable study and deserves a careful perusal and thoughtful consideration. It is with no mean descriptive talent that...
...passed establishing the "University of Michigan," and providing for thirteen professorships, including one for the historical sciences, or "diegetica," as they were called in the pedantic scheme of Judge Woodward, the framer of the act. The method of supplying the faculty was unique. A Scotch Presbyterian minister, John Monteith, was given six professors, in addition to the presidency; while Gabriel Richard, the Roman Catholic bishop of the Territory, took the six remaining chairs. In 1821 this preliminary organization was repealed and a board of twenty-one trustees, including the Scotch parson and a Catholic bishop, was appointed by the Territorial...