Word: chaplains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...drawings of these works of art and this was permitted only on the receipt of five guineas from each artist daily. In 1801 Abercrombie defeated the French and the fate of the Parthenon no longer rested on the result of the campaign in Egypt. At this time, De Hunt, chaplain of the British embassy to Constantinople, conceived the idea of moving the marbles themselves to London and finally in 1801, after some reluctance, gained permission from the governor...
Professor John Williams White has been elected chairman of the auditing committee in place of Professor Chaplain who has gone to Mexico on account of trouble with his eyes...
...entrance of President Barnard and the other dignitaries was announced by the Lohegrin processional music, performed by the Symphonic Orchestra, under Damrosch. The president and Professors Dwight and Chandler were loudly cheered. After prayer by the chaplain of the college, Marshal Woodford opened the proceedings with an address, sketching the history of the college, and dwelling upon the glory of the future. Chorale, "Awake My Soul." Wagner, by the Oratorio and Symphonic societies followed...
...vice-principal and chaplain of the Institute spoke interestingly on the purpose and result of the course of training employed at the Hampton Institute. The first thing that is impressed on the mind of the student is that manual labor is honorable. Yet in spite of the time spent in manual toil, the progress made by the students has been shown to be greater than any of the schools in the South where time is devoted to study alone...
...been sent from college the greatest number of times; the Vice-Admiral is the poorest scholar in the class; the Rear-Admiral, the laziest fellow in the class; the Commodore; one addicted to boating; the Captain a jolly blade; the Lieutenant and Midshipman fellows of the same description; the Chaplain the most profane; the Surgeon a dabbler in surgery, or in medicine or anything else; the Ensign the tallest member of the class; the Boatswain one most inclined to obscenity; the Drum-Major the most aristocratic, and his assistants, fellows of the same character. Oh! laziness! fulsere quondam candiditibi soles...