Word: preston
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...better days of this magazine. Richard Grant White contributes the first of two articles on "The Anatomizing of William Shakespeare," giving an interesting study of that author's life and writings. Henry Cabot Lodge writes an excellent article on Willian H. Seward, and Miss Harriet W. Preston discourses on "Matthew Arnold as a Poet." Prof. J. Lawrence Laughlin's article on "The Selver Danger" is a timely one, as is also the article on "The Progress of Nationalism," by Edward Stanwood. The serial stories by Mr. Crawford and Dr. Mitchell are continued, as well as Henry James's series...
...made renowned by one of the largest schools in England, is about ten miles distant from London, and is generally called Harrow on Hill, as it is built about a small eminence. The school was founded in 1571 by "one John Lyon," a yeoman of the neighboring village of Preston, who gave the sum of twenty marks annually for the support and education of the village children. In the same year the school charter was granted by Queen Elizabeth, who approved of the statutes drawn up by Lyon; but notwithstanding the removal of all obstacles, the school was not opened...
...William Preston Johnston, President of the Louisiana State University and son of Albert Sidney Johnston, the confederate general, is visiting leading colleges in the North with the view of obtaining useful information. He will soon visit Harvard...
...senior class at Bates college will erect in Hathorn Hall, before graduating, a life-size bust of Charles Sumner, made by Preston Powers in Florence, Italy...
...Preston, W., 407 Broadway