Greenwich
a borough of the city of London, England, on the right bank of the Thames, 6 miles S. E. of London bridge. It contains a magnificent hospital for invalid seamen, built by Sir Christopher Wren (1696). The Royal Observatory, erected by Charles II., is under the charge of the Astronomer Royal, a position that has been filled by Flamsted, Halley, Bradley, Bliss, Maskelyne, Pond, Airy, etc. The longitude of all English charts and maps is reckoned from this observatory, and the captains of ships take their time, as given at 1 P. M. Pop. of borough about 96,000.
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Greenwood (City of Mississippi)
a city of Mississippi, the county-seat of Leflore co. It is on the Southern and the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroads. The city is the center of an important cotton-growing district and its industries include the manufacture of oil, cotton compresses, furniture, wagons, ice, lumber, etc. The notable buildings include a Carnegie library, Elks' Home, a court house, and school buildings. Pop. (1910) 5,836; (1920) 7,793.
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Greenwood (City of South Carolina)
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) a city of South Carolina, the county-seat of Greenwood co. It is on the Seaboard Air Line, the Piedmont and Northern, the Southern, and the Charleston and West Carolina railroads. Its industries include the manufacture of lumber, cottonseed-oil, cotton, spools, bobbins, etc. The city is the seat of the Brewer Normal School for negroes, the Lander Female College, and the Bailey Military Institute. Pop. (1910) 6,614; (1920) 8,703.
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Greer
DAVID HUMMELL, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop, born at Wheeling, W. Va., in 1844. He BISHOP GREER graduated from Washington College in 1862 and studied theology at the Protestant Episcopal Seminary at Gambier, O. He was ordained priest in 1868, and was rector of churches in Kentucky and Rhode Island. In 1888 he was appointed rector of St. Bartholomew's Church in New York and served until 1904. He was elected Bishop Coadjutor for New York in 1903; and in 1908, following the death of Bishop Potter, ter, he was made Bishop of New York. He died in 1919. He wrote "Moral Power of History" (1890); "The Preacher and His Place" (1895); "Visions" (1898).
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Gregorian Chant
or TONES (Latin cantus Gregorianus), the name given to certain choral melodies introduced into the service of the early Christian Church by Pope Gregory the Great, and still forming the basis of cathedral music. By the Gregorian tones, or modes (toni, modi) of Gregory, must be understood a certain melodious formula, made out of the union of a perfect fifth and a perfect fourth, or their inversion, to give the Church song greater variety. All the old writers agree as to the diatonic genus of the Gregorian tones, but they do not all agree as to the number of the tones: some counting 14, others 12, while in some old Roman choral books there are only 11.
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Gregorovius
FERDINAND (greg-ō-rō'vē-ös), a German historian born in Neidenburg, East born and poet; Prussia, Jan. 19, 1821. He studied at Königsberg and at home, and says of deep scholarship; "Socialistic Elements in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister"; a tragedy, "The Death of Tiberius"; "Corsica"; books of travel and description, based on close personal study; also "Euphorion," an epic, and other poems of high repute. But his historical works, of unsurpassed learning and vivid realization of the spirit of their time, are the most commanding monument of his genius. "The City of Rome in the Middle Ages," "Lucretia Borgia," "Urban VIII., "The Monuments of the Popes," and "Athenais," need but be named. He died in Munich, May 1, 1891.
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Gregory (II)
AUGUSTA (LADY). Irish authoress, née Persse. In 1880 she married Sir W. H. Gregory, whose autobiography she edited in 1894. She became interested in the Irish literary movement and finally published "Cuchulain of Muirthemne" and "Gods and Fightparaphrases ing Men," translations and of old Irish epics which created much stir, by their idiom modeled on old Gaelic and the powerful breath of romance contained in them. She helped to establish in 1899 the Irish Literary Theater, now the Abbey Theater. Her chief books, includng plays are: "The Kiltartan History ing Book"; "Poets and Dreamers"; "Visions and Beliefs"; "The White Cockade"; "The Full Moon"; "Seven Short Plays"; "Irish " Folk History Plays"; "New Comedies.
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Greiz
a capital of the German republic of merly seat of its prince; on the White Reuss-Greiz, and for- Elster, 47 miles S. S. W. of Leipsic. It contains three castles and a 13th-century church, and manufactures cotton and woolen goods , also cashmere and shawls, and possesses dyeworks and linen-printing establishments. The town was severely ravaged by fire in 1494, and again in 1802. Pop. about 23,000.
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Grenada
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) an island of volcanic origin in the British West Indies, lying N. by W. from Trinidad; area, 133 square miles; pop. 67,000. Some of the craters in the central ridge of mountains, rising to 3,000 feet, have been transformed into large lakes; streams and mineral springs abound; there are several good natural harbors. The inhabitants, who are almost all negroes, cultivate cocoa, coffee, and oranges; a little rum is manufactured, and spices and fruits are grown. Capital and headquarters of the government of the Windward Islands, St. George's. Grenada has been a crown colony since 1885; previous to that date it had a constitutional government. Columbus was the discoverer of the island in 1498.
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Grenfell
SIR WILFRED THOM- ASON, an English medical missionary, born near Chester, England, 1865, of an influential family and graduated from Oxford. He then studied medicine at London Hospital. In 1889, under the auspices ces of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, he equipped a hospital ship to accompany the fishing fleets from the North Sea ports to Iceland. Three years later he went to Labrador and New Foundland, where he established hospitals at many points along the coast, making his headquarters at Saint Anthony. A large part of his time, however, is spent on the large steam hospital ship, "Strathcona," on which he visits all parts of the coast. He has also instituted a chain of cooperative stores among the fishermen making for their economic betterment. He wrote many books, chief of which are "Off the Rocks" (1906); "Down to the Sea" (1910); "Down North on the Labrador" (1911); "The Adventures of Life" (1912); etc.
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