Van Amringe
JOHN HOWARD, an American educator; was graduated at Columbia College (now University) in 1860; was tutor of mathematics there in 1860-1863; adjunct professor of the same in 1864-1873; then was made full professor. In 1894 he was elected dean of the School of Arts. When Seth Low Cyc of New York, Dr. Van Amringe was acting president of the university till Nicholas Murray Butler. He is the the election, in January, 1902, of Dr. author of a revised edition of Davies' "Legendre." He died in 1915.
VANBRUGH (van-brö'), SIR JOHN, about 1666; educated partly in England an English architect and dramatist; born and partly in France. He entered the army, became well known in London as his attention to play-writing. His first a man of fashion, and then turned play, "The Relapse," was brought out at Drury Lane about 1697, and was fol- "Esop." lowed by "The Provoked Wife," and the wit and most of the freedom of treat-
The first two of these had all ment which characterized that period, therefore unsuccessful. How he obtained but "Esop" was moral and dull, and his knowledge of architecture is not known, but at this time (1702) Vanbrugh designed Castle Howard, the seat In of the Earl of Carlisle. Afterward he to build a great theater at the W. end of entered with Congreve into a speculation London, in which he was his own architect; but it did not prove a success. 1706 he was commissioned by Queen Anne to present the garter to the Elector of Hanover, and the same year he was occupied with the erection of Blenheim Palace. This work got him into considerable pecuniary trouble, as Parliament, which voted it, voted nothing for its payment. He built many other mansions for the nobility; in 1714 he was knighted by George I.; in the following year appointed controller of the royal works, and in 1716 surveyor of Greenwich Hospital. Vanbrugh's plays are admirable in dramatic conception as well as in wit, and his architectural works received the approval of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He died in London, March 26, 1726.