Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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Finally the students are classified according to their states and preparatory schools. Massachusetts leads the way with 114 students, New York and New Hampshire 4 each, Maine 3, California, Connecticut, Lilinots, Rhode Island 2, and Georgla, Hawaitan Islands, Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, South Carolina and Vermont one apiece. Among the preparatory schools the Cambridge Latin is at the head with 12 students. The Boston Latin supplied 8 and sixty-six other institutions sent students in different numbers down...
...born 1684, died 1753. He matriculated at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1700, took his Master's degree in 1707, published his "Essay towards a New Theory of Vision" in 1709, and his "Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge" in 1710. From 1729 to 1731 he lived in Rhode Island, planning his University, which was to be established in the Bermudas. The plan came to nothing. In 1732, returned to England, he published his "Alciphron." He became Bishop of Cloyne in 1734. The best edition of his works is that of Fraser (Oxford,1871). The same editor has also written...
...bill has been presented before the Rhode Island senate abolishing the denominational test in the election of the trustees, president and other officers of Brown University...
...semi-annual meeting and banquet of the Rhode Island Harvard club, held at Providence, Wednesday evening, speeches were made by President Eliot and Professor Byerly...
Professor Edwards, formerly instructor of rhetoric at Brown, has been appointed reading clerk to the Rhode Island house...