Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should be provided "as soon as there shall be sufficient, benefactions for these purposes," and that professors should be appointed "as soon as ways and means can be devised for raising sufficient sums for their encouragement." Meanwhile, the Corporation proposed to elect to the professorships. "Some gentlemen of public spirit and distinguished abilities, who would undertake the business, for the present, for the fees that may be obtained from those who would readily attend their lectures." Thus uncertainly were laid the first foundations of the present Medical School...
...were no traces of that distressfully professional journalism which one finds so often in a magazine that cost thirty-five cents or half a dollar. The supplementary departments, too, he found creditable, the editorials, book reviews and theatre notes. But what interested him most was a sort of indefinable spirit in the magazine of gentlemanly youngsters interested in letters learning to write more than passably well...
...England, had emigrated to Massachusetts in 1738. Isaac Royall settled in Charlestown, of which town he was a Representative for nine years. Later, he became a Counsellor, and held that office until 1774. However, says Josiah Quincy '28, "his judgment was not in unison with the patriotic spirit of the times. After the battle of Lexington he sailed for England, where he remained until his death." His former popularity saved his estates from confiscation under the "conspirators act," but the Government took possession of his property under the fact for confiscating the estates of certain persons called absentees...
...Professorship of Law. In 1816, Isaac Parker, '86, was chosen the first professor of that foundation. It is interesting to note also that the Royall Professorship was really the beginning of the present Law School, for, a year later, Professor Parker, then Chief Justice of Massachusetts, was the moving spirit in the establishment of the school at Cambridge, under the direction of the Hon. Asahel Stearns, '97, who was elected University Professor...
...national spirit, in other words, is first largely evident in the Elizabethan Age, and it is this spirit in the literature of that period which will be the subject of a lecture to be given at 12 o'clock this morning in Sever 11 by Professor Lowes in his course English 32 Other lectures of interest to be given this morning...