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Glasgow, University of
(Encyclopedia) Glasgow, University of, at Glasgow, Scotland; founded 1451. Its charter provided for studies in theology, canon and civil law, arts, and “any other lawful faculty.” Today it has…New Brunswick, University of
(Encyclopedia) New Brunswick, University of, at Fredericton, N.B., Canada; nondenominational; provincially supported; coeducational; chartered and opened 1800 as the College of New Brunswick, called…Meharry Medical College
(Encyclopedia) Meharry Medical CollegeMeharry Medical Collegeməhârˈē [key], at Nashville, Tenn.; coeducational; organized 1876 as the medical department of Central Tennessee College, granted an…Barnes, Barnabe
(Encyclopedia) Barnes, Barnabe, 1569?–1609, English poet. His major work is Parthenophil and Parthenophe (1593), a collection of sonnets, madrigals, elegies, and odes. He also wrote A Divine Century…Four Freedoms
(Encyclopedia) Four Freedoms. In his message to Congress proposing lend-lease legislation (Jan. 6, 1941), President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stated that Four Freedoms should prevail everywhere in…Clarke, Walter
(Encyclopedia) Clarke, Walter, c.1638–1714, colonial governor of Rhode Island, b. Newport, R.I. He was deputy governor (1679–86, 1700–1714) and was three times governor (1676–77, 1686, 1696–98) of…Reading, University of
(Encyclopedia) Reading, University of, at Reading, England; established 1892 as a university extension college affiliated with the Univ. of Oxford. In 1926 it received its charter as an independent…Waterford, town, Republic of Ireland
(Encyclopedia) Waterford, town (1991 pop. 41,853), seat of Co. Waterford, S Republic of Ireland, on the Suir River near the head of Waterford Harbour. The port town is a center for the export of…Applegarth, Robert
(Encyclopedia) Applegarth, Robert, 1834–1924, English trade union leader, a carpenter by trade. A charter member of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, he became in 1862 its general…Forfar
(Encyclopedia) Forfar Forfar fôrˈfər [key], town, Angus, E Scotland. Textiles, processed foods, iron goods, and…Trending
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