Word: peter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question is frequently asked today, especially in America : "Does college training pay ? Do men of natural force and ability really benefit by the outlay of time and money required for a university education ?" The so-called "self-made men" point with a just pride to Abraham Lincoln and to Peter Cooper and ask . "What better men than these, do the colleges turn out ?" It is not my purpose to discuss how many college men may be but pedants and dreamers, nor to attempt to prove that "self-made men" may be woefully lacking in all real worth, but my object...
...remains of Thurlow Weed lay in state in St. Peter's Episcopal Church at Albany, N. Y., for several hours on Saturday, and were afterwards interred in the Rural Cemetery...
Challenges have been forwarded to England that may lead to aquatic events of interest next season. Mr. Peter Duryea offers to back a sculler (at present unnamed) against any other rower in the world, in a three or five mile race, for from $5000 to $10,000 a side. He will also match a pair of rowers against any other two scullers for a like amount...
Patrick Fitzgerald, Chas. Rowell (per Peter Duryea), Geo. Hazael (per Albert F. Smith) and Geo. Noremac signed articles of agreement June 2, to compete in a go-as-you-please pedestrian match of 142 hours, for a sweepstakes of $500 and a pro rata share of the gate receipts for those who cover 525 miles or over. The race is to begin Oct. 23, at 12.05 A. M., in the Madison Square Garden...
...noted scholars and professors of England of today Oxford has Max Muller, George Rawlinson, Benj. Jewett and J. C. Shairp; Cambridge, Professors Seeley and Fawcett; the University of London has Professors Ward, Henry Morley, Schmitz, Lankester, Bobertson and Thorold Rogers. In Scotland, Alex. Bain, Principal Tulloch, Peter Baynes and David Mason; and Dowden, the Shakesperean scholar, is at Dublin...