Word: royale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much inclined to complain of not having the necessary facilities in this direction, but comparison, which teaches so many things, may also teach as to be quite contented with our lot. While staying in Berlin for a few months, I had occasion to get some books out of the Royal Library. Not being a matriculated student, I had tremendous difficulty in getting the necessary permission from one of those demigods - an assistant librarian. When I had gained this point, I proceeded to look about in a dingy, dark, low ceilinged room, for something in the line of a catalogue...
Doubtless few of the students of the college have learned of the gift to the corporation of $10,800 by John Tyndall. Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal Institute of Great Britain. The money was received last commencement, and its net income is to be applied to the support, at either American or European Universities, of one or more American pupils who may have some capacity in physics, and "preferably such as shall express their determination to devote their lives to the advancement of theoretic science and original investigation in that department of learning...
Lady Agnes, the fory horse-power behind the throne; Royal Charlie's patrician mash. Pray for him, C. H. Minot...
...gambling rooms at 146 A Tremont street, are pronounced by the Advertiser to be "the rendezvous for young men of wealth and education.' The "Royal," as the establishment is called, is said to count among its best customers the undergraduates of Harvard and other colleges. "The freshmen and sophomores of the colleges, and those upper classmen whose taste for miscellaneous gambling outlives their verdancy, make the "Royal" the centre of their senseless and criminal amusement. It is reported that gambling at Harvard and other colleges has increased rapidly within a few years, and although most of the older students...
...Louisa Reed Stowell, the only female instructor in the University of Michigan, and the author of several treatises on microscopical subjects, has just been elected a member of the Royal Microscopical Society of London, England, being the third lady ever elected to that position...