In June 1878, the Association for the Higher Education of Women was formed, aiming for the eventual creation of a college for women in Oxford.

Lady Margaret Hall was founded in 1878 as the first women's college in Oxford, and did not accept men until 1979.

Lady Margaret Hall, the first women's college in Oxford, was founded in 1878 and opened its doors to its first nine students the following year.

Shortly after the death of Main on May 9, 1878, Stone was appointed to succeed him as Radcliffe Observer at Oxford, and he left the Cape on May 27, 1879.

in 1889, and a Baronet in 1891 ; was president of the Royal Geographical Society from 1874 to 1875, and of the Asiatic Society from 1878 to 1881 ; and received honorary degrees at Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh.

In 1878, Arthur Johnson was the first to deliver an " Oxford Extension Lecture ".

In 1873 he began to study political economy at Oxford University, first at Pembroke College and from 1875 at Balliol College, where he went on to teach after his graduation in 1878.

at Edinburgh in 1875 with first-class honors in classics, Ritchie gained a classical exhibition at Balliol College, Oxford, and won a first-class both in classical moderations ( Michaelmas 1875 ) and in the final classical school ( Trinity term, 1878 ).

In 1878 he became a fellow of Jesus College, Oxford and in 1881 a tutor.

The elder son, John ( 1843 – 1911 ), was Bishop of Salisbury, founder of Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury, and author of Fragments of Early Latin ( 1874 ); the eldest daughter, Elizabeth ( 1840 – 1932 ), was the founder ( in 1878 ) of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and its first principal in 1879.

The dean's chief published works are a Life of St Anselm ( 1870 ), the lives of Spenser ( 1879 ) and Bacon ( 1884 ) in Macmillan's " Men of Letters " series, an Essay on Dante ( 1878 ), The Oxford Movement ( 1891 ), together with many other volumes of essays and sermons.

In the 15 years between the time that Gilbert wrote The Princess and the premiere of Princess Ida, the movement for women's education had gained momentum in Britain, with the founding of Girton College ( 1869 ) and Newnham College ( 1871 ) at the University of Cambridge ; and Somerville ( 1878 ) and Lady Margaret Hall ( 1878 ) at the University of Oxford.

In recognition of his contributions to the sciences, Lubbock received honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford, Cambridge ( where he was Rede lecturer in 1886 ), Edinburgh, Dublin and Würzburg ; and in 1878 was appointed a trustee of the British Museum.

Starting in the late 19th century, both universities saw the establishment of residential colleges exclusively for women students: Girton College, Cambridge, was founded in 1869 and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, in 1878.

The chair was founded in 1878 when an earlier gift from Joseph Bosworth, Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, had increased in value sufficiently to support a stipend of £ 500 a year.

From 1878 until 1959, Rangiora was also the junction for the Oxford Branch, which ran from Rangiora to Oxford West station.

Oxford was linked to Christchurch in 1878 by the Oxford Branch Line, a narrow-gauge line running from Oxford West to Rangiora to meet the broad gauge from Christchurch.

In 1878 the Oxford University Catholic Club was founded by Hartwell de la Garde Grissell In 1888 it was renamed the Oxford University Newman Society.

As a university player, Lyttelton's most notable achievement was the hat-trick he scored in helping Cambridge to a 5 – 1 victory over Oxford in 1878.

In 1878, the people of Ocean View and the area around the University campus, together with local farmers, incorporated themselves as the Town of Berkeley.

At the University of Leipzig from 1876 to 1878, Husserl studied mathematics, physics, and astronomy.

Then he moved to the Humboldt University of Berlin ( then called the Friedrich William University ) in 1878 where he continued his study of mathematics under Leopold Kronecker and the renowned Karl Weierstrass.

Translated into English Mycenae: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenae and Tiryns ( 1878 ) ( reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2010.

* The Theory of Sound vol. II ( London: Macmillan, 1878, 1896 ) ( alternative link: Bibliothèque Nationale de France ) OR ( Cambridge: University Press, reissued 2011, ISBN 978-1-108-03221-6 )

In 1878, the University established its first law school in San Francisco with a US $ 100, 000 gift from Serranus Clinton Hastings ; it is now Hastings College of the Law.

Roberto Landell de Moura, a Brazilian priest and scientist, went to Rome in 1878 and studied at the South American College and Pontifical Gregorian University, where he studied physics and chemistry.

For several years ( 1866 – 1878 ), James Clay allowed the mansion to be used as a residence for the regent of Kentucky University, forerunner of the University of Kentucky and present-day Transylvania University.

The University of Tennessee College of Dentistry was founded in 1878, making it the oldest dental college in the South, and the third oldest public college of dentistry in the United States.

The building was significant both for its location and history: having stood on one of the most valuable lots in the city centre since 1878 the building had for example served as the first main building of the University of Turku.

* Vernon L. Lidtke, The Outlawed Party: Social Democracy in Germany, 1878 – 1890 ( Princeton University Press, 1966 ).

In 1878, the University set another first when it became the first university in the UK to admit women on equal terms with men.

* Tomsk State University is the oldest university in Siberia ( founded in 1878, opened in 1888 ).

David Jacob Eisenhower, the father of US President Dwight David Eisenhower, lived in a ranch near Hope from 1878 to his enrollment at Lane University.

Brigham Young College was founded here in 1878 ( but later closed ) and Utah State University – then called the Agricultural College of Utah – was founded in 1888.

* Harvard University, Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Annual Reports, 1877, 1878, 1879:

In 1878, he returned to New York, taking a studio in the New York University Building.

Born in South Haven, Michigan, as the third son of farmers Liberty Hyde Bailey Sr. and Sarah Harrison Bailey, Bailey entered the Michigan Agricultural College ( now Michigan State University ) in 1878 and graduated in 1882.

In 1878, at the age of 16, he enrolled at the Imperial Alexander University of Helsinki.

The university was founded in 1878 as the Western University of London, Ontario, a denominational school of the Church of England, by Bishop Isaac Hellmuth and the Anglican Diocese of Huron.

The university was founded on 7 March 1878 by Bishop Isaac Hellmuth ( 1817 – 1901 ) of the Anglican Diocese of Huron as " The Western University of London Ontario.

1989 Lords of the Mountain: Social Banditry and Peasant Protest in Cuba, 1878 – 1918 ( Pitt Latin American Series ) Univ of Pittsburgh Press ISBN 0-8229-3601-1

Johns Hopkins ' bequest was used to posthumously found the Johns Hopkins Colored Children Orphan Asylum first as he requested, in 1875 ; the Johns Hopkins University in 1876 ; the Johns Hopkins Press, the longest continuously operating academic press in America, in 1878 ; the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1889 ; the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1893 ; and the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1916.

* The Stoughton Musical Society's Centennial Collection of Sacred Music, contains a version with the later text and was published in Boston in 1878 ; reprint by DaCapo Press, 1980, with New Introduction by Roger L. Hall.

* Julian S. Rammelkamp, Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, 1878 – 1883 ( Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967 ).

* Peirce, Benjamin ( 1878 ), " On Peirce's Criterion ", Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, v. 13 ( whole series ), v. 5 ( new series ), for May 1877 – May 1878, Boston: Press of John Wilson and Son, pp. 348 – 351.

Reprinted in pp. 140 – 160 of Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition: Volume 3, 1872 – 1878, Christian J. W. Kloesel et al., eds., Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-37201-1.

Kennan subsequently ( in 1878 ) obtained a position with the Associated Press based in Washington, D. C., and as a war correspondent travelled throughout his career to many conflict areas around the world.

In 1878, he promulgated the Vernacular Press Act, which empowered him to confiscate the press and paper of a local language newspaper publishing ' seditious material '.

1878 Steam Press

In 1878, with loans from his half-brothers, E. W. went on to found The Penny Press ( later the Cleveland Press ) in Cleveland.

**( 1878 ), Letters of Chauncey Wright: With Some Account of His Life by James Bradley Thayer, privately printed, Press of John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, MA.

* Summers, Mark Wahlgren. The Press Gang: Newspapers and Politics, 1865 – 1878 ( 1994 )

Despite a London Free Press account about the Tecumsehs on 21 June 1939 ( Fred Goldsmith Invented The Curve Ball ), that stated the team defeated the Chicago White Sox in three straight games to win the title series in 1878, it appears the writer was in error, instead referring to a two-game series in 1877 between the Tecumsehs and the Chicago White Stockings.