Prince
JOHN DYNELEY, an American university professor and philologist. Born in New York in 1868 he graduated at Columbia at the early age of twenty, studied in Berlin and received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1892. From 1892 to 1902 he was professor of Semitic languages and dean of the Graduate School of New York University. From 1902 to 1915 he occupied a similar professorship at Columbia until in 1915 the chair of Slavonic languages was created when he was appointed to that. Professor Prince in 1909 was the Republican speaker of the New Jersey Assembly and President of the New Jersey Senate in 1912, and for a short time was acting Governor of the State.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Prince of Wales
a title conferred usually by the sovereign of England upon his oldest son and heir. The custom originated in the day of Edward the Black Prince. The title was calculated to appeal to the pride of the Welsh, who had lately been conquered by the English. Thus, when Queen Victoria's oldest son, later King Edward, was born, she made him Prince of Wales. When he became king, the title was extinguished, except that he chose, in accordance with custom, to bestow it on his oldest son. In all ceremonial functions the Prince of Wales is entitled to a place next to that of the sovereign.
Only in Aiton's Encyclopedia
Prince of Wales Island
an island belonging to Great Britain, lying at the N. entrance of the Straits of Malacca, off the W. coast of the Malay Peninsula, from which it is separated by a channel 2 to 5 miles across; area, 107 square miles. Two-fifths of Penang is plain, and the rest hills, which rise to a height of 2,734 feet in the peak now used as a sanatorium. The climate is hot, but very healthy. The scenery is charming. The island produces cocoanuts and areca nuts, nutmegs and cloves, rice, sugar, coffee, and pepper. Georgetown, or Penang, the capital and port (Pop. 1915 about 105,000) has a large commerce. The harbor is the strait between island and mainland. Penang was made over by treaty to the East India Company in 1786 by the Rajah of Quedah, and with province Wellesley, a long strip of the Malay Peninsula opposite (area, 270 square miles), it forms one of the Straits Settlements, having a resident councillor to control administration. Pop. (1915) 294,858.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Princes Islands
a group of nine islets near the E. end of the Sea of Marmora, about 10 miles S. E. of Constantinople, the largest being called Prinkipo. Pop. (1917) 10,500.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Princess, The
The, a Medley, a narrative poem by Alfred Tennyson, published in 1847. The body of the poem is in blank verse, but it contains several exquisite lyric poems. The story is of a college for women, founded by women-men being excluded entirely. The theme is the ideal character and sphere of woman. As for the various characters in the poem, they give all possible views of woman's higher education; and as for the heroine herself, the Princess Ida, the poet who created her considered her as one of the noblest among his women. The stronger the man or woman, the more of the lion or lioness untamed, the greater the man or woman tamed. In the end we see this lioness-like woman subduing the elements of her humanity to that which is highest within her, and recognizing the relation in which she stands toward the order of the world and toward God.-Lord Tennyson.
Only in Aiton's Encyclopedia
Princip
GAVRILO, the assassin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife. He was a native of Bosnia and one of the extreme Serbian patriots. When the Archduke visited Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, an attempt was made to assassinate him with bombs. Narrowly escaping death, the Archduke and his wife were being driven in a carriage to the royal palace when Princip fired into the equipage just as it turned the corner of a narrow street. The Archduke and Duchess were killed almost instantly. Princip was arrested and died two years later while awaiting trial.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Principal
the term used in the United States to designate the proprietor, chief, or head of an academy or semi-provements speedily succeeded this press. nary.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Principal and Agent
a designation in law, which relate to the acting of one person for another in any commercial transaction.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Pringle
THOMAS, an English poet; born in Blaiklaw, Roxburghshire, Jan. 5, 1789. Lame from childhood, dyspeptic, devout, he went at 17 to Edinburgh University. He took to writing at an early early early age, and besides other literary schemes, started the "Edinburgh Monthly Magazine." In 1820 he set sail with a party of emigrants of his father's family for Cape Colony. He traveled into the interior with the party, and had his heart stirred within him to see the inhumanity practiced toward the natives by English and Dutch residents alike.es He started the south refrican Journal," and fought a brave fight for the freedom of the press. But he was bullied by the tyrannical governor, Lord Charles Somerset, his schemes crushed, and himself reduced to poverty. He returned to London in 1826, and became secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society. His "Ephemerides" (1828) was a collection of graceful verse. He died in London, Dec. 5, 1834.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Print
a light cotton cloth, woven either plain or twilled, ornamented with printed patterns. The name is specifically applied to calico, but there is quite a variety of printed cottons, such as drapery prints, used for curtains and furniture coverings, and including many different weights and qualities of cotton cloth; indigo prints, ornamented with an indigo-blue ground and white pattern; robe prints, used largely for bed comforts; dress prints of many varieties, and shirting prints. See Printing ; Calico ; Indigo
Only in Aiton's Encyclopedia
Pripet Marshes
an extensive swamp surrounding the city of Pinsk, in western Russia, and extending up and down both banks of the Pripet river. Officially this region is known as the Rokitno Marsh. In area these bogs are about half the size of the entire terri tory of Rumania. Only a comparatively small portion of the marsh had been explored before the outbreak of the World War, when it became the theater of important military operations between the Russian and German forces, especially after the capture of Brest-Litovsk by the Germans, on Aug. 27, 1915. After their disastrous defeat at this time the Russian line retired and took its stand along the eastern side of the Pripet marshes. Along this front there was, of necessity, a large territory intervening between the Russian and German lines, invaded only by raiding parties and occasional patrols, moving in punts in summer, and on the ice in winter. It was only during the winter months that fighting of any magnitude could take place here, and then the contending forces would advance over the ice and engage 23 in pitched battles. The region was, however, impassable to heavy artillery, so that neither side was able to break the deadlock created by the nature of the country. Across this swamp region the two belligerents continued facing each other until the end of the war on the Eastern Front.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia