Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Thursday evening in Sever 11. The lecturer, speaking from personal experience, displayed great knowledge of his subject and held the close attention of his audience to the end of his address. Dr. Vetter passed four years in Russia. He was first engaged as tutor to a young Russian nobleman but was afterwards connected with the Imperial University of Moscow and the Lyceum of Nicholas. He spoke in substance as follows. The children of the lower orders in Russia grow up in about the same manner as the children of other nations of Europe. They are taught to reverence all sacred...
...Americans, is the supreme control a man's tutor had over him. He bought his clothes, gave him his very scanty allowance of pocket money, and attended to all his financial transactions, as well as to his moral training. Life at a university was exceedingly cheap. We instance a nobleman's son whose yearly allowance was forty pounds, this being expected to cover everything. There was indeed little chance to spend money, for the statutes of the college even went so far as to expressly forbid such extravagance as hunting or the wearing of "great muffs," both being symptoms...
There are professors, but this is an honorary position merely. Nearly every week each one gives a voluntary lecture, but few attend. None of the professors belong to the colleges, but to the university itself, whose nominal head is the chancellor, a nobleman, and in reality but little connected with the place. Its real head is the vice-chancellor. Under him are two proctors (far different from ours, since they are very important personages in the community) who are a sort of police captains, and the police force at Oxford is, we are happy to say, quite of a different...
...uncle, Prince Leopold, he will wear cap and gown only on occasions where they are required by law, and even then he will discard the gold tassel on the cap and silk gown of the cut that distinguishes, or rather used to distinguish, the gentleman-commoner from the nobleman...
...Brah, a Burmese nobleman, who came to America twelve years ago, has graduated from three of our colleges, and is now lecturing down South...