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John Harvard was born in London in 1607 and was educated at Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he received his M.A. degree and was ordained a clergyman. He sailed for America with his young wife, Anne Sadler, in 1637, and on their arrival they settled in Charlestown...
...since the days of Victoria and Palmerston has public criticism been leveled against the Crown in Britain. The audience filed out in shocked silence. Newshawks hurried to the platform to interview the Master of University College who presided. Sir Michael Ernest Sadler,* scowling purse-lipped over his doctor's gown, said he: "I consider Mr. Wells's references to the King simply a dark line in the historian's larger contributions about national life...
Died-Sylvester Baker Sadler, 54, justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court since 1921; of pneumonia; in Carlisle...
...Michael Sadler's comment on the proportion of University students to the national population in several European countries and the United States has an interesting bearing on the over-crowded conditions of the universities in this country. In England one out of every 1000 goes to college while in the United States one out of every 120 attempt to get a university degree...
Author of the "Sadler Reports" (1895-1903) when, as director of Special Inquiries and Reports in the Education Department of England and Wales, he disseminated sheafs of data on educational goings-on in Germany, England, France, Belgium, the U. S., he became in later years President of the Calcutta University Commission (1917-19). For this work a Gracious Sovereign was pleased to knight him. Sir Michael Sadler is now Master of University College. Oxford, where he likes to show students his collection of French and English paintings...