Word: nicholases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founded in 1915 by Francis H. Wade, in memory of his son, Lee Wade, 2nd '14, the Lee Wade prize consists of an award of $50. One award of $50 and two of $35 make up the Boylston prizes which Ward N. Boylston founded in honor of his uncle, Nicholas...
When Nicholas I became Tsar, Pushkin's tireless hopes rose again. Unluckily for him, the Decembrist Revolt numbered many of his good friends, all of whom seemed to have subversive Pushkin poems among their papers. Though not directly implicated in the conspiracy, Pushkin was again under suspicion. He was...
1905. Father Gapon's peaceful petitioners were shot down in hundreds outside the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, while Mukden was lost and the Russian Navy went to destruction in Tsushima. The Kaiser rattled his sabre at Tangier, made a crude attempt to trick Tsar Nicholas into an alliance...
1917. After two and a half years of blundering war, England tired of its tight-lipped professionals, put Lloyd George, an intelligent amateur, in charge. Tsar Nicholas renounced his throne while excited soldiers in St. Petersburg "swore eternal loyalty to something that they could not catch quite distinctly." Lenin arrived...
President Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia, said in part. "The new step forward in the administration of higher education--just announced by the College Entrance Examination Board is highly significant. Few mattes are of more significance at the moment than the selection of those students who on grounds of fitness...