Word: arnold
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Hart Miliman won the prize for a poem entitled the "Belvidere Apollo"; in 1832, Roundell Palmer, now Lord Selborne, won the prize for his "Staffa"; in 1837, Arthur Peurhyn Stanley, afterwards Dean of Westminster, for "The Gipsies"; in 1839, John Ruskin for his "Salsette and Elephanta"; in 1843, Matthew Arnold wrote the prize poem, "Cromwell"; in 1852, Edwin Arnold, "The Feast of Belshazzar." At a later date, in 1860, J. A. Symonds, author of the "Renaissance in Italy," won the prize for "The Escorial...
...more books are numbered the volumes of the "Early English Text Society," the "Chaucer Society," the "Parker Society," the "Percy Society," and the "Shakespeare Society." There are also complete sets of Wycliff's "Latin Works," of Shakespeare, Bulwer, Johnson's "Lives of the Poets," Dickens, Thackeray, Newman, Matthew Arnold, Browning, Tennyson and Stevenson. These are supplemented by many books on general literature and by the books required for reading in the courses on the several periods of English literature. With the exception of the Classical Library this collection is the only one with a special fund...
...cause of education. From a small school for boys he built up a day school that has become an important educational center in Philadelphia. Indeed, his personal influence among boys has been so great, and his life-work so successful, that he has often been compared with Dr. Arnold of Rugby...
There are over a hundred and fifty varieties of lilacs in full bloom at the Arnold Arboretum. The grounds are open to the public until Wednesday...
Lectures at the Arnold Arboretum.Mr. J. G. Jack will conduct a series of Lectures and Field Meetings at the Arnold Arboretum during May and June for the purpose of supplying popular instruction about the Trees and Shrubs which grow in New England. They will be held on Saturday mornings at 10 o'clock and on Wednesday afternoons at 3 o'clock, beginning on Saturday, May 7, and closing June...