Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...George Darwin, son of the late Charles Darwin, has been elected professor of astronomy and experimental philosophy in Cambridge University...
...Palmer, the author of the "Folk-Etymology," has undertaken the editorship of the "Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases Adopted into English," for the preparation of which the late Mr. Stanford left a bequest of $25,000 to the University of Oxford...
...pipe which supplies the water for the gymnasium is not large enough to furnish a sufficient quantity when the gymnasium is as crowded as of late it has been, it will be necessary, before another year, to have a larger pipe put in. Another plan, however, has been proposed by the engineer - namely, to supply the gymnasium with water by means of an artesian well, and it is possible that the latter plan may be adopted as the most feasible...
...McGill University (of Montreal) authorities have seized $32,000 belonging to the estate of the late Miss Barbara Scott, to meet the legacy left by her to found a chair in the university, but which the executors would...
...reparation in sending a challenge without an accompanying apology. They therefore deem it unworthy of our dignity to row the Cambridge crew, and are loath to countenance the race by their support. For the benefit of these we shall attempt to explain matters. Columbia holds one view of the late difficulty, Harvard another. We hold that the Harvard crew and the boat club, by its subsequent action, were entirely in the wrong, and that our men could not have acted otherwise than they did. Harvard claims that there existed merely a misunderstanding, the blame of which can be justly attributed...