Word: queens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Queen Gerrude J. H. Parker...
...Columbia College. The Rhode Island College, established in 1763, is what is now knows as Brown University. The nucleus from which Dartmouth College started was a school founded in 1769 for the education of the American Indian. In 1770 an institution was founded in New Jersey and called Queen's College, so named by King George III in honor of his wife. Fifty years after the revolution, this institution, like King's College. changed its title and became Rutgers College...
...athletic house at Andover was formally opened last Saturday. The money for building the house was forwarded by the faculty on condition that the school pledge itself to raise $500 each year. That amount was raised last year and the building was immediately begun. It is a Queen Anne cottage and very attractive in appearance. The first floor is devoted to a dressing-room and several store rooms for hurdles, etc. The second floor contains the baths, which are free to the students of the Academy...
...midst of this age of Queen Anne, Pope stood out as the foremost literary man. It was a time of sharp struggle between the Whigs and the Tories and each party, eager to strengthen its position, did its best to draw into its ranks the leading men. The leading writers especially were sought, for political pamphlets had much to do in swaying the popular mind. In this way such men as Newton, Steele, Prior and Addison found their way into high offices under the government...
...this period of Queen Anne's time the four leading literary men were Pope, Swift, Defoe and Addison. The last three represented the prose while Pope was the poet. Pope's life and works were closely intertwined and much influenced by his circumstances. He was born in London, the son of a catholic linen draper, but very early in his life his father retired from business to a small estate at Binfield. Pope's education was of the most miscellaneous character; he received his early training at home and later went for short periods to several schools in and about...