These 9 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Wooster University, Worcester, Worcester.
a coeducational institution in Wooster, O.; found ed in 1866 under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 41; students, 671; president, Chas. F. Wishart, D. D.
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the county seat of Worcester county, Massachusetts. The Roman Catholic college of the Holy Cross, Clark University, and the State Normal School are located here. Worcester is an important manufacturing center. Population, 1910, 145,986.
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woos-ter, the capital of Worcestershire, England. It is situated on the Severn. It was an ancient British settlement and a Roman military station. The last two syllables, "cester," are from the Latin word castrum, meaning camp. The final battle of the English civil war was fought here in 1651. The Scotch adherents of the Stuarts were defeated decisively by the English Puritans under Cromwell. The city is noted in industrial history for manufactures of gloves, porcelain, Worcestershire sauce, and vinegar. It is the center of a large trade in hops. The city is noted also for a thirteenth century cathedral with handsome windows and a square central tower. The interior is described as possessing a certain simplicity and majesty of its own. The city is less than half as large as its namesake, Worcester, Massachusetts.
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DEAN CONANT, an American educator; born in Thetford, Vt., Oct. 1, 1866; was graduated at the University of Michigan in 1889; traveled in 15 of the Philippine Islands in 1887- 1889; was instructor of animal morphology at the University of Michigan in 1893-1894, and became assistant professor in the latter year. In 1890-1892 he again traveled in the Philippines with Dr. F. S. Bourns, in a tour known as "the Menage Scientific Expedition." In January, 1899, he was appointed one of the United States commissioners to the islands to investigate and report on conditions there. Under the work of this commission civil government for the Philippines was inaugurated gurated at Manila, July 4, 1901, with Judge Taft as the first civil governor. Until 1913 he was secretary of the Interior for the Philippines. Dr. Worcester was the author of "Preliminary Notes on the Birds and Mammals collected by the Menage Scientific Expedition to the Philippine Islands" 1894); "Contributions to Philippine Ornithology" (1898); "The Philippine Islands and their People" (1898); "The Philippines, Past and Present" (1913); Cyc orated. The cathedral, first erected and contributions to the elaborate "Re port of the Philippine Commission" (1900).
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JOSEPH EMERSON, an American lexicographer; born in Bedford, N. H., Aug. 24, 1784. He was graduated at Yale in 1811, 1, and very shortly began his life work as a dictionary maker. His first publication was: "A Geographical Dictionary, or Universal Gazetteer" (1817, revised 1823); followed by "Gazetteer of the United States" (1818); "Elements of Geography" (1819); "Sketches of the Earth and its Inhabitants" (1823); "Elements of History" (1826). In 1830 he published the "Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory English Dictionary" (enlarged editions appeared 1847-1849- 1855). In 1860 he published the great quarto, "Dictionary of the English Language" (illustrated), a standard authority wherever the English tongue is spoken. In 1820 he settled in Cambridge, Mass., and died there, Oct. 27, 1865.
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a part of Oxford University; founded in 1714, out of the older older Gloucester Hall, by Sir Thomas Cookes, for a provost, six fellows, and six scholars. Of the fellows four, of the scholars five, must be sons of clergymen, needing support at the universities, and six of the remaining scholarships are for scholars of Bromsgrove School. WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC IN- STITUTE, a technical non-sectarian institution in Worcester, Mass.; founded in 1865; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, about 50; students, about 600; president, Ira N. Hollis, Sc. D.
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WYNKYN DE, an English printer; born probably in Lorraine. It is not known when he entered Caxton's service, but most likely it was at a very early age, as he was still living in 1535. In 1491 he succeeded to the stock-intrade of his deceased master, but he did not append his name to his books till 1493. From about 1502 onward he worked in Fleet Street, London, at the sign of the Sun. He used on his books many varieties of Caxton's "mark," and Mr. Blades gives as many as 14 variant forms of his own name. Wynkyn de Worde made great improvements in the art of printing, and especially in that of type cutting. The books printed by him-408 in number, according to the list in Diblin's edition (1810) of Joseph Ames' "Typographical Antiquities" - are generally distinguished by their neatness and elegance, hardly by their accuracy, nor, a Vol. X 27 their contents.
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JOHN LORIMER, an American naval officer; born in Sing Sing (now Ossining), Westchester co., N. Y., March 12, 1818; was appointed a midshipman in the navy, Jan. 10, 1834. At the beginning of the Civil War he was captured by the Confederates, and after being held seven months was exchanged. He was ordered to the command of John Ericsson's "Monitor" which armed with two 11-inch was smooth-bore Dahlgren guns, carrying a shot of 168 pounds, and which left New York March 6, 1862. He arrived at Hampton Roads on the evening of the 8th, after the iron-clad "Merrimac" had destroyed the wooden frigates "Cumberland" and "Congress." On the morning of the 9th a memorable battle was fought by the "Merrimac" and "Monitor," the former of which was partly disabled and abandoned the fight, after several violent collisions with the "Monitor." He was promoted commander in 1862, captain in 1863; and commanded the iron-clad "Montauk" in the operations against Fort Sumter in April of that year. In June, 1868, he was promoted commodore, and in 1872 rearadmiral. He was superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1870- 1874; commander-in-chief of the European squadron in 1875-1877; and was retired, at his own request, with full sea pay, Dec. 23, 1886. He died in Washington, D. C., Oct. 18, 1897.
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a municipal borough and seaport of Cumberland, England, at the mouth of the Derwent; 7 miles N. of Whitehaven. Its harbor, furnished with a breakwater (1873) and several quays, is safe and commodious. To the coal mines in the vicinity the town chiefly owes its prosperity; and there are large iron works and other industrial establishments here. The salmon fishery near is important. Mary, Queen of Scots, landed here, on her flight from Langside, May 16, 1568, and was entertained at Worthington Hall (the seat of the Curwens from about 1160 till the present day). Pop. about 25,000.
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