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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 2 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jordan, David Starr 1851- (search)
Jordan, David Starr 1851- Educator; born in Gainesville, N. Y., Jan. 19, 1851; graduated at Cornell University in 1872; and at the Indiana Medical College in 1875. He was Professor of Biology in Butler University, Indiana, in 1875-79; held the same chair in Indiana University in 1879-85; and was president there in 1885-91. In the latter year he was elected president of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University. Since 1877 he has held several appointments under the United States government in connection with the fisheries and the fur-seal industry. He is author of A manual of Vertebrate animals of Northern United States; Science sketches; Fisheries of North and Middle America; Factors of organic evolution; Matka and Kotik; Care and culture of men; The innumerable Company; and many papers on ichthyology.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Leland Stanford, Junior, University, (search)
$20,000,000. His widow has since increased the amount of endowment, and in 1899 it represented a total of $45,000,000. The buildings were constructed without regard to their cost, and are nowhere surpassed in beauty and fitness. Many of them are of yellow sandstone, and the Moorish style of architecture has been followed in their construction. The courses of instruction embrace almost every department of study imaginable, and provide a complete system of education from the kindergarten to the postgraduate course. There are not only schools of agriculture, machine-shops, and laboratories for the study of the applied sciences, but there are colleges of art, of law, of medicine, and of music. The first president of the institution was Dr. David S. Jordan, formerly president of the State University of Indiana. At the close of the school year 1900 the university had 131 professors and instructors; 1,400 students in all departments; 45,000 volumes in its library; and 1,099 graduates.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), California (search)
ct of Congress to reserve as a public park the Big-tree groves in townships 18 and 17 south......Sept. 25, 1890 King David Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands lands at San Francisco from the United States man-of-war Charleston......Dec. 4, 1890 King David Kalakaua, born 1836; dies at San Francisco......Jan. 20, 1891 Hon. George Hearst, United States Senator, dies in Washington, D. C.,......Feb. 28, 1891 Charles N. Felton, elected United States Senator......March 19, 1891 Dr. David S. Jordan, president of Indiana State University, accepts the presidency of Leland Stanford, Jr., University......March 23, 1891 Chilian insurgent transport, the Itata, seized at San Diego......May 6, 1891 First shipment of block-tin (seven tons) from the Temescal mines, in San Bernardino county, received in San Francisco......June 15, 1891 Australian ballot law takes effect......July 1, 1891 Leland Stanford, Jr., University at Palo Alto opened......Oct. 1, 1891 Earthquake; sligh