Word: royale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Duty of Royal Duchenet" is a powerful story of the French Revolution, and appeals strongly to one's sympathies...
...followers of his chosen science accorded him. When Professor Gray first went to Cambridge the establishment was hardly more than a botanic garden in name, and did not include either herbarium library or other proper material for instruction or research. Professor Gray is a foreign member of the Royal Society, of London; he is a foreign member also of the Institute of France, being one of the "immortal eight;" and long ago he was welcomed into all the less exclusive bodies of European savants. He has served the American Academy of Arts and Science as its president, and has presided...
Columbia College, in New York, may fairly claim the honor of being the first American institution in America to recognize history as worthy of a professional chair. The institution was founded, as King's College, under the royal patronage of George II. in the year 1754. Arrangements appear to have been made in the original faculty of arts for the teaching of law and history...
After the Revolution, Columbia College, having dropped its royal name and patron as well as its Tory president and Tory professors of history, took a fresh start under American auspices. An old broadside, preserved in the Columbia Library, contains the statutes of the college for 1785 and a "Plan of Education," whereby it appears that history was first taught in what was then a unique way for America. The Rev. John Gross, Professor of German and Geography, from 1784 to 1795, taught the sophomore class three times a week, in a course which was characterized as a "Description...
...morrow's game will be favorable, but in any case all praise is due to the men who have worked so faithfully and who have already accomplished so much. We trust that when the team leaves Bartlett's in the barge the college will give them a royal send-off. The CRIMSON offers a parting salutation- "GLUCK...