Word: foundering
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...founder of these prizes. James Bowdoin, graduated from the University in 1745. He was a member from 1757 to 1774 of His Majesty's Council for the Province, and was active there as an opponent of the ministry. He was president of the convention which framed the Constitution of the Commonwealth in 1779 80, and was Governor of Massachusetts from 1785 to 1787. Governor Rowdoin bequeathed 400 pounds, the interest which was to be used for these prizes. In 1901 George S. Rowdoin of New York give $15.000 to be added to the practice of the formers bequest...
Holberg was the founder of Danish literature, and is considered the first writer of his time with the exception of Voltaire. Before his death he had founded a theatre in which his comedies were played. All his plays are of universal interest, as he has travelled and studied conditions in every country. The production of "Erasmus Montanus" by the Dramatic Club tonight marks the first time that any of his plays have been presented in America as far as can be ascertained...
With nearly a dozen candidates reporting, the Gym team held its first meeting Wednesday afternoon in the Hemenway Gymnasium. Mr. G. F. Evans '05, former captain and founder of the University Gym team, and Mr. Schrader, the coach, addressed the meeting. Although Mr. Schrader felt that more men should have turned up, he said that after the game Saturday and the return to normal athletic conditions he expected a considerably greater number of men would come out. For the present practice will be held daily in the Hemenway Gymnasium from...
Holberg was the founder of Danish literature and is considered the first writer of his time with the exception of Voltaire. He came into Danish literature at a time when it was said, "a man wrote Latin to his friends, talked French to the ladies, and called his dogs in German, and only used Danish to swear at his servants." Before his death he had established a theatre, supplied it with comedies, and contributed masterpieces of poetry, and essays. His plays are of universal interest due to his extensive travels. It was while he was a student at Oxford that...
...moment of Hawker's sensational get-away, when he dropped with his landing-gear practically all his chances of alighting safely on land, Americans were "rooting" for him, rather than the more cautiously scientific American pilots. Then he was lost for a week, and General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout Movement, was deeply affected last week as he told a New York audience that Americans seemed to feel that loss,--the loss of a thorough sport,--almost more than Englishmen themselves...