Green (II)
THOMAS HILL, an English philosopher; born in Birkin, Yorkshire, England, April 7, 1836. He was educated at Rugby, and Balliol College, Oxford, taking there in 1859 a first-class in litteræ humaniores, later a third in law and modern history, and in November, 1860, being elected to a fellowship in his college, to which he was re-elected in 1872, becoming also its first lay tutor in 1866. He married a sister of John Addington Symonds in 1871, and was appointed in 1877 to be Whyte's Professor of Moral Philosophy. He wrote "Prolegomena to Ethics"; "Works" (3 vols. 1885-1888); etc. He died March 26, 1882, leaving £1,000 to the university for a prize essay in the department of moral philosophy, £1,000 to found a scholarship at the Oxford High School for boys, and £3,500 to Balliol College for the promotion of higher education in large towns. He died in 1882.
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Green Bay
a city and county-seat of Brown co., Wis .; on Green bay, the Fox river, and the 'Chicago and Northwestern, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Green Bay and Western, and the Kewaunee , Green Bay and West ern railroads; 65 miles N. N. E. of Fond du Lac. It is at the head of lake and the foot of river navigation ; has an ample harbor, and carries on a large trade in lumber, coal , grain, flour, cheese, etc. It has waterworks , electric lights and street railroads . National banks, public library, high school, several Roman Catholic and Lutheran parochial schools. The United States Government constructed a ship canal to connect the Mississippi river with Lake Michigan, using the Wisconsin and Fox rivers , the cost of which $10,000,000. Pop. (1910) 25,236; (1920) 31,017. was over
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Green Mountain Boys
a name applied to the male inhabitants of Vermont, from the chief range of mountains in the State, and used especially in referring to regiments from Vermont in the Revolution and the Civil War.
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Green Mountains
a considerable mountain range commencing in Hartford co., Conn., and extending N. through Massachusetts and Vermont into Lower Canada. Length, about 240 miles. Their greatest elevation is in Vermont, where Mount Mansfield, or North Peak, rises to a height of 4,389 feet. Their geological formation is the metamorphic slates, gneiss, quartz rock, limestone, etc., of the Laurentian epoch, the general range of which is about N. 15° E., with a prevailing dip of 30° to 55°. The slopes are covered on the disappearance of the snow in spring with fine pastures of rich green grass, which may have given to the mountains their name, though this is commonly referred to the growth of evergreen forest trees.
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Green Sea
the Persian Gulf, so named from a remarkable strip of water of a bright green color along the coast of Arabia.
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Green, John Richard
John Richard (1837-1883), an eminent English historian. He was born at Oxford and was graduated at that university in 1859. He entered the ministry, but failing health and differences of opinion led him to seek a position as a librarian. He drifted through magazine writing into serious historical composition. A Short History of the English People, published in 1874, attained instant success. "What Macaulay had done for a period of English history, Green did for it as a whole," said one critic. A more extended work, The History of the English People, followed. It is one of the standard histories of England. As compared with other historians, Green paid less attention to wars, rulers, and parliaments, and more attention to the development of the arts and sciences and the comforts of common life. The nature of his work is well expressed by the titles he chose. Later he planned an extended critical work of many volumes. Two of these, the Making of England and the Conquest of England, he completed before his death. See Froude ; Macaulay
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Greenaway
KATE, an English artist; especially famous for her pictures of child life. Her first book was "Under the Window," followed by illustrations for "Pied Piper of Hamelin," "Marigold Garden," "Mother Goose," etc., and two books of her own, "A Painting Book for Boys and Girls," and "Kate Greenaway's Alphabet." She died in London, Nov. 8, 1901.
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Greenback Party
in the United States, called by its members the Inde pendent National party, was organized in 1876, and was the outgrowth of the Granger and Labor Reform movements. Its convention at Indianapolis in May, 1876, demanded "the unconditional repeal of the Specie Resumption Act on Jan. 14, 1875"; urged the issue of United States notes as a circulating medium, and the suppression of bank paper; and protested against the further issue of gold bonds, and the purchase of silver to replace the fractional currency. Peter Cooper was nominated for President, and received 81,740 votes. In 1880 its candidate was James B. Weaver, who received 306,305 ballots. It has never gained any electoral votes. In 1884 the party indorsed the nomination of Benjamin F. Butler by the People's party, which polled 175,370 votes.
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Greene
FRANCIS VINTON, an American military officer; born in Providence, R. I., June 27, 1850. He graduated from West Point in 1870, and served till 1886 , when he resigned with the rank of captain. He was assistant astronomer on the Northwest Boundary Survey from 1872 to 1876, and was attached to the headquarters of the Russian army during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. In the American- Spanish War (1898), he was commissioned a Major -General of volunteers and served principally in the Philippines. His chief works are : "The Russian Army and its Campaigns in Turkey" (1879); "Army Life in Russia " (1880); "The Mississippi" (1882); "Life of Nathanael Greene" (1893 ), and a detailed report on the Philippine Islands (1889). He was Police Commissioner in New York City in 1902. Author of "The Revolutionary War and Military Policy of the U. S." (1911), etc.
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Greene (ROBERT an English poet)
ROBERT, an English poet and dramatist; born in Norwich, England, in 1560. He took his degree of A. B. at Cambridge University in 1578. He afterward traveled in Spain and Italy. On his return he re-entered the University, and took his degree of A. M. in 1583. On leaving Cambridge he proceeded to London , where he supported himself by writing plays and romances . One of the latter , "Pandosto: The Triumph of Time," supplied Shakespeare with hints for the plot of "The Winter's Tale." The most popular of his plays was "Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay." His literary fame rests on the poetry which he scattered through his romances-some of his pastoral songs being unsurpassed for tenderness and natural grace. He died in London, Sept. 3, 1592. After his death appeared the singular pamphlet entitled "The Repentance of Robert Greene, Master of Arts," in which he lays bare the wickedness of his former life.
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