Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Webster. Oration, entitled The First Settlement of New England, or an equivalent amount in the speeches,-Plymouth, Bunker Hill, Adams and Jefferson, Knapp Trial, Dartmouth College, Seventh of March (1850) Constitution a Compact, Hayne, Removal of the Deposits, Extension of Capital, Girard College, Ogden vs. Sanders...
...settlement of annuities upon college graduates to encourage and aid postgraduate study in special branches, is a system first introduced by Oxford and Cambridge. The various colleges of which Oxford is composed, possess about three hundred fellowships, which are held for various lengths of time, some of them for life; but marriage, ecclesiastical advancement, or accession to a certain amount of property, compel the holder to surrender his fellowship. The fellow is elected after a severe competitive examination, and is hampered by very few conditions in the enjoyment of his income, and is at liberty to pursue almost any course...
...discoverer of the main land, and told how the name of the Italian was gradually adopted as the designation of the New World. The lecture was illustrated by facsimiles of original manuscripts and maps from the Harvard library collection. At the second meeting, the subject was the landing and settlement of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, and Mr. Deane, Mr. Winsor, and Dr. Channing spoke. The subject was made to include the explorations of the coast of eastern Massachusetts anterior to the coming of the Pilgrims, and the voyage of the Mayflower, as well as the landing at Plymouth...
...Winsor, at one of the meetings. gave an account of the negotiations which have been attempted for the recovery from England of Bradford's history of the settlement at Plymouth. Bradford was the annalist of the Pilgrims, and Mr. Winsor has characterized his book as the corner stone of American history. During the Revolution, when the English soldiers made the Old South Church their riding school, this book was taken from the antiquary room of the Old South. No trace of it since was discovered till towards the middle of this century, when it was found in the library...
...faculty committee, have contained so many personal allusions of a disagreeable nature, that we feel called upon in the name of the students to protest. We do not take this action as an attempted defence of the advisory committee or any one else, but as exponents of a gentlemanly settlement of difficulties without descending to disagreeable personalities and vilification in public newspapers...