Word: regents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Andrew D. White, Yale, '53, succeeds Professor Asa Gray as a regent of the Smithsonian Institution...
...President White, of Cornell, has been chosen to succeed Prof. Asa Gray as a regent of the Smithsonian Institute...
...specimens, and his library of more than 2,500 botanical works, to Harvard in 1864. He received the degree of A. M. from Harvard in 1844 and of L. L. D. from Hamilton in 1860, and has delivered three courses of lectures in the Lowell Institute. Dr. Gray was regent of the Smithsonian Institute, succeeding Louis Aggasiz in that office. For many years he was one of the editors of the American Journal of Science, and his "Botanical Contributions" have long been published in the proceedings of the American Academy of Sciences and Arts...
...have played their opening match before. Lord stayed, and the Marylebone Club stayed with him, at Dorset square, till 1810 or 1811, when, in consequence, apparently, of a disagreement with Mr. Portman about rent, he migrated to a ground called the new or middle ground, near North Bank, Regent's Park. Three years later the Regent's Canal was cut through the ground, and Lord removed to the ground now owned by the Marylebone Club in St, John's Wood road. The original turf used in Dorset square was taken up, so says Mr. Lilly white, with each removal...
...Another amusement, in which they frequently indulged, was the practice of throwing water into any window on the yard which happened to be open. This harmless recreation proved ruinous to the society, for we learn that "about the year 1822, having discharged water into the room of the college regent, thereby damaging a very valuable library of books, the company was disbanded and shortly after the engine was sold to the town of Cambridge, on condition that it should never be taken out of the place...