Word: william
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first volume of a new series, "Twelve English Statesmen," published by Macmillan and Co., has just appeared. The illustrious twelve are: William the Conqueror, Henry II., Edward I., Henry VII., Wolsey, Elizabeth, Oliver Cromwell, William III., Walpole, Chatham, Pitt, and Peel. Among the contributors to the series are: E. A. Freeman, F. York Powell, M. Creighton, Frederick Harrison, and John Morley...
...meeting of the Harvard Club of New York, in the club house on West Twenty-second street, the following list of officers was reported by the Nominating Committee: President, Francis O. French; Vice-President, Edward King; Secretary, Evart Jansen Wendell; Treasurer, William Montgomery, Jr.; Board of Managers, Edward Wetmore, Charles C. Beaman, Nathaniel T. Smith, Charles H. Russell, Jr., Samuel L. Ordway, T. Frank Brownell, Edward L. Parvis, Louis C. Clark, Amos K. Fiske, Henry H. Crocker, Jr., Eugene D. Hawkins, Franklin Bartlett, J. Hampden Robb, George Blagden; Committee on Admissions, George Walton Green, George H. Sargeant, G. Willett...
...University of Tennessee has elected Professor F. L. Scribner of the agricultural department, Washington, to fill its chair of botany and horticulture; Professor H. E. Summers of Cornell University to the chair of zoology and entomology, and Professor William E. Stone of Gottingen to be chemist at the Tennessee experimental station. All have accepted...
WANTED.- All kinds of Gents' cast-off Clothing, Boots and Shoes. Highest cash prices paid. We make a specialty of cleaning, repairing, pressing and dyeing all kinds of Gent's Clothing. Call or send postal to WILLIAM H. BROWN, 465 Main Street, Cambridge port. All orders promptly attended...
...Following this comes an interesting account of the American Philosophical Society by Annie H. Wharton. "Cicero in the Senate," by H. W. Preston, is so carefully prepared that it might well serve as a short history of the great orator. Herbert Tuttle gives us an account of the Emperor William. The student of fine arts will be interested in reading "Mr. Ruskin's Early Years." An article of real value is that on "Charles Brockden Brown," the first American novelist. The name is so seldom heard at present that the pioneer of American fiction is almost forgotten. The "Contributors' Club...