Word: royale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stated meeting of the board of overseers of Harvard College was held yesterday morning at the office of the treasurer, Hon. E. R. Hoar presiding. It was voted to concur with the fellows in the election of John Chipman Gray, A. M. L. L. B., as Royal professor of law, and in the appointment of Charles Herbert Williams, M. D., as instructor in Ophthalmology, and of Clarence Alonzo Cheever, B. A. S., M. D., as demonstrator of anatomy. Reports were made by the special committee on rhetoric and English literature; also by the committees to visit the Museum of Comparative...
Hormuzd Rassam has received the first grand prize of $2400 from the Royal Academy of Science of Turin in consideration of the services he has rendered to science by his Assyrian and Babylonian discoveries, the results of which are deposited in the British Museum...
...Lord Mayor of London, in welcoming Professor Huxley to the city recently, suggested that the position of President of the Royal Society was really one of even greater importance than that of Prime Minister; Mr. Gladstone is chief Minister of England, but Professor Huxley was "the head of the intellectual life of the world...
...positive testimony of men who are as capable of speaking with authority on the subject as are the professors of the leading university of Germany. It has been the policy of the Prussian government, in the last few years, to use every means in their power to make the Royal Frederick-William University in Berlin the National University, and such encouragements have been offered to professors of other universities that the faculty of the Berlin university is probably the most representative of the educational system of Germany. Germany, of late years, has gradually assumed a position at the head...
...picturesque old-world place, with the gray ivy-clad ruins of the ancient cathedral and castle standing in the midst of the clean, prim town, the old library, with its many literary treasures, and the broad "links," a great stretch of sandy common by the seashore, sacred to the royal and ancient game of golf, while there is an intellectual tone about the society of the place which Mr. Lowell will find thoroughly congenial. Besides the university, St. Andrew's boasts the possession, in the Madras College, of one of the best public schools in Scotland, whose masters...