Word: newman
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Prof. Francis William Newman has recently published a Latin translation of Robinson Cruso, under the title "Rebelius Crusoe; a book to lighten tedium to the learner of Latin...
...Church, and remember that it was founded by Cardinal Wolsey, and that John Locke, Ben Johnson, Sir Philip Sydney, William Penn, the Duke of Wellington and William E. Gladstone have been among its students. Oriel College reminds us of Sir Walter Raleigh, Bishop Butler, Thomas Arnold and John H. Newman. Corpus Christi once had Coleridge for a pupil, and from University College the ethereal Shelly was expelled. John Wickliff was a fellow of Merton College in 1364, and Frederic W. Robertson and the saintly Helm, the author of the hymn, "From Greenlands lacy Mountains," were students of Brasenose College...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -The following extract from an editorial in the New York Evening Post for Nov. 18th, may be of interest to such of your readers as have not already seen it. Speaking of an effort which Cardinal Newman made, while at Oxford, to abolish a rule which forced every undergraduate to take the sacrament regularly, the writer proceeds as follows...
...long-promised new cover appears on the June number of the Manhattan which may now congratulate itself on having as beautiful a cover as magazine ever had. An American painter, Henry Roderick Newman, is the subject of the opening article, written by H. Buxton Forman. Another brilliantly illustrated article is a second paper on "The Gunnison Country," by Ernest Ingersoll. There are four portraits, illustrating the first part of "Retrospections of the American Stage," by John Bernard. There are two purely literary papers, one on "The Brownings," by Miss Kate M. Rowland, of Baltimore. The other literary paper...
...number of votes it received. "Modern Painters;" Mr. Arnold's is "Literature and Dogma;" Mr. Browning's, "The Ring and the Book. The historians are headed by Froude 391, who comes next to Browning, closely followed by Mr. Freeman, 241. Mr. Herbert Spencer is eight with 235 votes, Cardinal Newman, (for his "Apologia) is ninth with 192 votes, John Morley has (187, William Morris, 147; Professor Huxley, 115; and Mr. W. E. Gladstone, 107. Novel writing is thought to appeal greatly to the popular taste but the novelists are at a discount, none of them getting a tenth...