Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...graduated at Bowdoin. There were, among them, Nathaniel Hawthorne (who spelled his name Hathorne in college); Franklin Pierce, afterward President of the United States; Jonathan Cilley, who was shot, while a member Congress, in a duel, by Mr. Graves of Kentucky; George B. Cheever, a distinguished clergyman and author; Stephen Longfellow the eldest brother of the poet, rapidly rising to distinction at the bar, when his earthly career was cut short by death; John S. C. Abbott, a somewhat famous writer; James W. Bradbury, an able lawyer, who has been in the United States senate (Yale...
...following officers of the Advocate for the ensuing year have been elected: President, George R. Nutter, '85; secretary, Stephen S. Bartlett...
...morality, as encouraging the vice of drinking among the students. Whether the students are allowed to imbibe at the college bar or not, the micing of gin-slings and brandy-smashes on the premises must of necessity by demoralizing in its effect. It is well known that the late Stephen Girard so earnestly dispproved of theology as to direct in his will that no clergyman should be permitted to enter the college buildings. It is doubtful, however, if he intended to encourage the sale of mixed drinks on the premises...
...Chicago University has new complications. Stephen A. Douglas gave land for the institution on condition that it never be sold or alienated, but the corporation mortgaged the premises for $150,000, and now some men who paid $1,000 each for scholarships ask the courts to declare the mortgage void on the ground that it was not warranted by the terms of the gift, that the title was in the trustees and not in the corporation, and that the mortgaging was a fraud upon the petitioners and the public...
...appointment of Mr. Leslie Stephen to the chair of English literature at Cambridge leaves little room for anything but congratulation. The Clark professorship is the first, and, so far as we know, the only endowment for the study of English at either of the older universities. There are chairs of Anglo-Saxon, certainly; but the connection between Anglo-Saxon and modern English literature is not very close, and our Anglo-Saxon scholars, for the most part, have very rightly devoted themselves to comparative philology rather than to literary criticism. In Mr. Stephen Cambridge has secured as a professor...