When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

In 1872, the dispensary became the New Hospital for Women and Children, treating women from all over London for gynaecological conditions ; the hospital moved to new premises in Marleybone Street in 1874.

Both companies became part of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil in 1874.

The American heiress Alice Vanderbilt Morris ( 1874 – 1950 ) became interested in linguistics and the international auxiliary language movement in the early 1920s, and in 1924, Morris and her husband, Dave Hennen Morris, established the non-profit International Auxiliary Language Association ( IALA ) in New York City.

Financial problems again forced him to work for a living and in the summer of 1874 he became science master at Cheltenham College, a public school, earning £ 400 per year.

On 1 January 1874 Liegnitz became the third city in Lower Silesia ( after Breslau and Görlitz ) to be raised to an urban district, although the district administrator of the surrounding Landkreis Liegnitz continued to have his seat in the city.

Recognised as part of the Spanish East Indies in 1874, the islands were sold to Germany in 1884, and became part of German New Guinea in 1885.

On December 1, 1874, Queen Esther Chapter No. 1 became the first Prince Hall Affiliate chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star when it was established in Washington, D. C. by Thornton Andrew Jackson.

An experiment in 1874 to produce flax from Phomium Tenax ( New Zealand flax ) failed ( the cultivation of flax recommenced in 1907 and eventually became the island ’ s largest export ).

Reed became city solicitor of Portland 1874 – 1877, before being elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses, serving from 1877, to September 4, 1899, when he resigned.

In The Great Tom Collins hoax of 1874, as it became known, the speaker would encourage the listener to act foolishly by reacting to patent nonsense that the hoaxer deliberately presents as reality.

He became Prime Minister for the first time and remained in the office until 1874.

* – Joseph Glidden, DeKalb, Illinois, Improvement in Wire-fences – twisted fence wires with short spur coiled around one of the strands ( November, 1874 ) This became the most popular patent.

Opened in the late 18th century, the underground cemetery became a tourist attraction on a small scale from the early 19th century, and has been open to the public on a regular basis from 1874.

Avellaneda became president after winning the 1874 presidential election.

Thompson became a companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States ( MOLLUS ) in 1874 through the Massachusetts commandery.

However, the print runs of these rather expensive albums did not come close to that produced in 1909 by the German publisher Karl Robert Langewiesche ( 1874 – 1931 ): His choice of watercolours, drawings and text by Carl Larsson, titled Das Haus in der Sonne ( The House in the Sun ), immediately became one of the German publishing industry's best-sellers of the year-40, 000 copies sold in three months, and more than 40 print runs have been produced up to 2001.

It was officially renamed the Town of Fairfax in 1874, and became an independent city in 1961 ( upon which it acquired its current name, the City of Fairfax ).

In 1874 Sumner County was formed and Greensboro again became a county seat, but this only lasted until 1876 when it was moved to Walthall.

Much of the northern portion became part of Saguache County in 1866, and the western portions were folded into Hinsdale and Rio Grande counties in 1874.

In 1874 Eakins and Crowell became engaged ; they were still engaged five years later, when Crowell died of meningitis in 1879.

When the new cathedral of St Stephen was opened in 1874 the small Pugin church became a school room, and later church offices and storage room.

Modelled after the Methodist Sunday school teachers ’ training camp established in 1874 at Lake Chautauqua, N. Y., this location became part of a nationwide educational network.

In 1874, Fowler became the county seat, which until that time had occupied nearby Oxford.

In 1872 Owen became the first president of Purdue University and resigned from this position in 1874.

This volunteer fire department came to an end December 9, 1874, when a paid department was organized in accordance with an act of the Legislature, the first chief engineer being Thomas H. Mason ; first assistant, John Franklin ; foreman of hose, William M. Lea ; assistant foreman, Milford Osborne ; superintendent of steamers, John Brooks ; assistant superintendent and engineer, Frank Spotten.

Mackenzie formed a government and asked the Governor General to call an election for January 1874.

At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.

Alfonso's short reign established the foundations for the final socioeconomic recuperation of Spain after the 1808 – 1874 crisis.

Carnegie, through Keystone, supplied the steel for and owned shares in the landmark Eads Bridge project across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri ( completed 1874 ).

An 1874 newspaper illustration from Harper's Weekly, showing a man engaging in barter: offering chickens in exchange for his yearly newspaper subscription.

Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons until, in 1874, she joined the " rejected " Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions, which included Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley.

As prime minister 1868 to 1874 he headed a Liberal Party that was a coalition of Peelites like himself, Whigs and radicals ; Gladstone was now a spokesman for " peace, economy and reform.

The main legislative framework for the Building Society was the Building Society Act of 1874, with subsequent amending legislation in 1894, 1939 ( see Coney Hall ), and 1960.

The original acts and debates of the council, as prepared by its general secretary, Bishop Angelo Massarelli, in six large folio volumes, are deposited in the Vatican Library and remained there unpublished for more than 300 years and were brought to light, though only in part, by Augustin Theiner, priest of the oratory ( d. 1874 ), in Acta genuina sancti et oecumenici Concilii Tridentini nunc primum integre edita ( 2 vols., Leipzig, 1874 ).

First synthesized in 1874 by Othmar Zeidler, DDT's insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939 by the Swiss scientist Paul Hermann Müller, who was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his efforts.

In 1874, Dr. Henry Maudsley ’ s article on Sex and Mind in Education, which argued that education for women caused over-exertion and thus, reduced their reproductive capacity, sometimes causing “ nervous and even mental disorders ”.

Elizabeth worked steadily at the development of the New Hospital for Women, and ( from 1874 ) at the creation of the London School of Medicine for Women.

He returned to Palermo in 1874 and won a competition for a four-year grant, which enabled him to study Renaissance sculpture in Florence.

Early finals venues include Kennington Oval, in 1872 and 1874 – 92, the Racecourse Ground, Derby in 1886, Fallowfield Stadium, Manchester in 1893, Goodison Park in 1894, Burnden Park for the 1901 replay, Bramall Lane in 1912, the Crystal Palace Park, 1895 – 1914, Stamford Bridge 1920 – 22, and Lillie Bridge, Fulham, London in 1873.

One of the first movements in Mussorgsky's 1874 work Pictures at an Exhibition, named " Gnomus " ( Latin for " The Gnome "), is written to sound as if a gnome is moving about, his movements constantly changing in speed.

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A more workable constitution was introduced under Michel Domingue in 1874, leading to a long period of democratic peace and development for Haiti.

Der Eigene stirner ist pioneer Gay activist publicationAdolf Brand ( 1874 – 1945 ) was a German writer, stirnerist anarchist and pioneering campaigner for the acceptance of male bisexuality and homosexuality.

However, under the Conservative government, the 1874 and 1875 Acts retained the judicial aspect of the House of Lords and ensured the quality of judicial appointments to the House of Lords was ensured by legislating, under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876, for the mechanism of judicial life peers.

However, the Lord Chancellor could not muster the necessary support in the Parliament for the bill as originally proposed in 1874 or when it was reintroduced in 1875.