Word: waddington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...January 10, by the invitation of the college authorities, a sitting was held at Cambridge of the Seventh Congress of the National Society of French Professors residing in Engiand. M. Waddington, the French Ambassador, presided. In his address, M. Waddington said that last year the society had met at Oxford by invitation of that university. He hoped the language which the society represented would soon be placed on a par with the classics. The modern school had not yet taken the position it deserved, and Moliere and Goethe should be studied by the side of Euripides and Sophocles...
...these races there were 870 survivors residing in Great Britain two years ago, besides others who could not be traced. Many of these had become clergyman, several reaching the position of bishops. The legal profession also absorbed many, justices of the English bench being among this number. Mr. Waddington, ex-premier of France, rowed in 1849, and Dr. Hornby, headmaster of Eton, in the same year, Mr. W. Spottiswood, president of the Royal Society, is also a 'Varsity Crew man. Altogether the list of intellectual oarsmen from Oxford and Cambridge is remarkable and speaks well for the great institution...
...French Senate yesterday M. Waddington declared that the republic was threatened by nobody, and had nothing to fear except the faults it might itself commit...
Prof. Chas. Eliot Norton contributes personal reminiscences to the forthcoming volume on the poet Clough, edited by Mr. Waddington...
...English Sonnets by Poets of the Past," edited by S. Waddington, and "English Sonnets," edited by J. Dennis, are recent English publications...