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Amherst College,
An educational institution in Amherst, Mass., founded in 1821; incorporated in 1825.
The funds for the construction of its buildings and for its endowments have been furnished by gifts of individuals, with the exception of $50,000 given by the State.
The Christian men and women of Massachusetts have built it up and chiefly sustain it. The declared object of its founders was the education of young men for ministerial and missionary labor.
In 1899 it had thirty-six professors and instructors, 380 students, buildings that cost over $400,000, and valuable art and scientific collections.
The Rev. George Harris D. D., was elected its president in that year.
Amidas, Philip
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Anthony , Susan Brownell 1820 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Anti-mission Baptists, (search)
Anti-mission Baptists,
Variously known as Primitive, Old School, and Regular Baptists; called Anti-Mission Baptists because of their opposition, begun about 1840, to the establishment of Sunday-schools, missions, colleges.
or theological schools.
They hold that these institutions make the salvation of men dependent upon human effort rather than upon Divine grace.
In 1899 they reported 2,130 ministers, 3,530 churches, and 126,000 members.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Appropriations by Congress. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arbitration, international Court of, (search)
Arbitration, international Court of,
A court for the arbitration of disputes between nations, provided by the Universal Peace Conference at The Hague in 1899, and made operative by the adhesion of the signatory nations and the appointment by them of members of the court.
The Arbitration Treaty consists of sixty-one articles, divided into four titles: First, On the Maintenance of General Peace, consisting of one declaratory article; secondly, On Good Offices and Mediation; thirdly, On International Commissions of Inquiry; fourthly, On International Arbitration.
The following is a summary of the treaty:
Article 1.
With the object of preventing, as far as possible, recourse to force in international relations, the signatory powers agree to use all endeavors to effect by pacific means a settlement of the differences which may arise among them.
Article 2.
The signatory powers decide that in cases of serious differences or conflict they will, before appealing to arms, ha
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Armour , Philip Danforth 1832 - (search)
Armour, Philip Danforth, 1832-
Philanthropist; born in Stockbridge, N. Y., May 16, 1832; received a public school education.
In 1852-56 he was a miner in California; in 1856-63 engaged in the commission business in Milwaukee, Wis., and then became a member of the firm of Plankinton, Armour & Company, meat packers.
Mr. Armour was a man of large benevolence.
In 1892 he built the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago at a cost of $1,500,000, and in the same year endowed it with $1,400,000; in 1898 he increased this endowment by $500,000; and in 1899 made another addition of $750,000. He died in Chicago, Jan. 6, 1901.