Word: william
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 7. - The committee in charge of the George William Curtis memorial fund have decided to establish a revolving lectureship, the incumbent of which shall deliver lectures in Yale, Harvard, Columbia and perhaps Amherst and Brown Colleges. The following Yale professors have charge of the fund at Yale. Weir, Bishop and Henry Farnam. The holder of the lectureship will select for his theme a civic subject, similar in scope to the questions to which Mr. Curtis devoted his life work...
There are twenty-three universities and colleges in the United States founded before 1800. The ten oldest are: Harvard, 1636; William and Mary, 1693; Yale, 1701; Pennsylvania, 1740; Princeton, 1746; Washington and Lee, 1749; Columbia, 1754; Rutgers, 1766; Dartmouth, 1769; Hampden Sidney...
...WILLIAM W. NOLEN...
...Rufus King, Elbridge Gerry, Francis Dana, Caleb Strong, John Pickering, and Benjamin West; Yale four - Abr. Baldwin, Jared Ingersoll, W. S. Johnson, and Wm. Livingston; Princeton nine - James Madison, Gunning Bedford, Jonathan Dayton, Oliver Ellsworth, Luther Martin, Alexander Martin, Wm. Patterson, W. C. Houston, and W. R. Davie; William and Mary five - John Edmund Randolph, George Wythe, James McClurg, and J. F. Mercer; Columbia (King's) two - Alexander Hamilton and Gouverneur Morris; College of Philadelphia two - Thomas Mifflin and Hugh Williamson; Oxford (Eng.) - Charles Cotesworth Pinckney; Glasgow R. D. Spaight; Edinburgh, St. Andrews and Glasgow - James Wilson. Of the thirty...
...WILLIAM W. NOLEN...