Word: warden
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opportunity. The following gentlemen spoke in favor of the affirmative: A. Burr, '89; F. B. Williams, '88; C. Hunneman, '89; A. J. Wells, L. S.; S. C. Lawrence, '90. The following addressed the meeting in belief of the negative: H. A. Davis, '91; C. P. Blaney, '91; C. Warden, '89; W. Naumburg, '89; A. D. Hill, '91; A. E. Healey, '91; A. E. Beckwith, Sp.; W. Williams, L. S. The votes were as below: On the merits of the question, affirmative, 14, negative, 14; on the merits of the principal disputants, affirmative, 25, negative, 11; on the arguments...
...some few years enjoyed this privilege to the full, and, although the principle was carried at Oxford yesterday by a large majority, (100 to 46), its application was limited to a capricious selection of subjects, and was hampered by sundry restrictions. We are glad, however, to learn from the Warden of Merton's speech that the promoters will not be content until they have won "complete academical equality" for women. [Pall Mall...
...should imagine that in the opinion of nine-tenths of the readers of his autobiography he takes first place among successful men of letters, looking to success from the pecuniary point of view, and considering the quality of the work. Trollope made L727, in the aggregate, by "The Warden" and " Barchester Towers," which, in the opinion of some of the best judges of our time, are by far his best works. He was paid L250 for "The Three Clerks," and L400 for "Dr. Thorne." He began to run into four figures with "Framley Parsonage," for which he received L1000...
...unusually "stiff" and her graduates generally rank high upon the honor-roll in the university examinations. Merton boasts of the finest chapel, the choir and stained-glass being particularly good, and it is of this college that Dr. Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was warden. Oriel, founded in 1324, ranks next in antiquity and has always been marked for religious tendencies, for here Keble and Wilberforce often discussed and argued in the common's room...
...literary standing of the college depends greatly on the energy and scholarship of its master or warden. Some colleges that once stood low now take high rank, because of the determination of a newly appointed master to raise their standing. In the first rank for thoroughness of scholarship today stand Balliol and Corpus Christi, while University, Trinity and New take second rank, and Worcester and Wadham are regarded as very...