`` You are the ' Peoples' Poet ' '' was her appraisal in 1908, and she stopped teaching and writing to devote herself to the fulfillment of her husband's career.

`` It's been going since 1908 when I was a junior in college.

Ordinarily a father permits his children to grow up in due time -- but when the colony received independence in 1960 the Congolese child, if one imagines him to have been born in 1908, was 52 and had until then been treated as an infant.

Huxley's mother died in 1908 when he was 14.

Alumni was reorganised in 1908, " in order to encourage people to practise all kind of sports, specially football ".

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

The result were two volumes ( J. S. Bach ), which was published in 1908 and translated in English by Ernest Newman in 1911.

Use of the name " Ashes " was suggested by the Australian team when rugby league matches between the two countries commenced in 1908.

In 1908 he was involved in trying to start a new professional baseball league, the " Union Professional League " which took the field in April but folded one month later.

In 1908, the New York Curb Market Agency was established, to codify trading practices.

In 1903, he was named vice-chancellor of the Catholic Church, and became the Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery in the Secretariat of State in 1908.

* Infante Jaime Luitpold Isabelino Enrique Alberto Alfonso Victor Acacio Pedro Maria of Spain ( 1908 – 1975 ), a deaf-mute as the result of a childhood operation, he renounced his rights to the throne in 1933 and became Duke of Segovia, and later Duke of Madrid, and who, as a legitimist pretender to the French throne from 1941 to 1975, was known as the Duke of Anjou.

Receiving the archives of Henry Chadwick in 1908, Spalding combined these records with his own memories ( and biases ) to write America's National Game ( published 1911 ) which, despite its flaws, was probably the first scholarly account of the history of baseball.

The first car to be named Aston Martin was created by Martin by fitting a four-cylinder Coventry-Simplex engine to the chassis of a 1908 Isotta-Fraschini.

In 1908, a Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival was held to celebrate 50 years of Australian Football.

The college was suppressed in 1908 by Pope Pius X and their duties were transferred to the protonotarii apostolici participantes.

The Aberdare Athletic Ground was the venue of the first rugby league international between Wales and the New Zealand All Golds on New Year's Day 1908, which was won by the Welsh 9-8.

The term was first used in the early 20th century by Paul Lapie, in 1902, and Eduard von Hartmann, in 1908.

The sacrifice fly as a statistical category was instituted in 1908, only to be discontinued in 1931.

In fact, earlier in the 1908 season, the identical situation had been brought to the umpires ' attention by Evers ; the umpire that day was the same Hank O ' Day.

In 1908, a statewide referendum that proposed moving the California state capital to Berkeley was defeated by a margin of about 33, 000 votes.

By 1908, there was widespread concern about the decline of salmon and sturgeon.

His father was Henry Attlee ( 1841 – 1908 ), a solicitor, and his mother was Ellen Bravery Watson ( 1847 – 1920 ).

Theodore Roosevelt appointed Dr. Hamilton Wright as the first Opium Commissioner of the United States in 1908.

In 1908 he was one of five people appointed to the first Library Board for the city of Calgary and was instrumental in establishing the Calgary Public Library.

However, he did so with honors and was appointed Cadet Adjutant ( the second highest position for a cadet ), graduating in 1909 instead of 1908 and receiving his commission as a cavalry officer.

In 1908 Gabriel Angoulvant was appointed governor of Côte d ' Ivoire.

Canning was appointed to lead a construction party and between March 1908 and April 1910, 48 wells were completed along the route.

President Teddy Roosevelt appointed him to the National Conservation Commission in 1908, and it was Mackenzie, then manager of the Brazil Land, Cattle and Packing Company, with whom Roosevelt stayed when he visited Brazil in 1913.

* Matthew S. Murray, who was appointed Director of Public Works for Kansas City at the request of Tom Pendergast in 1926, lived in Sikeston from 1908 until 1922.

In 1908, he was appointed Chairman of The National Commission on Country Life by president Theodore Roosevelt.

Ignoring the proposal of the university senate, ban Rauch appointed him a university professor in Zagreb in 1908.

Upon his father's death in about 1908, Zogolli became governor of Mat, being appointed ahead of his elder brother, Xhelal Bey Zogolli.

These protecting powers appointed the following as High Commissioner ( or " Armostis ") until 1908 when the Cretan Assembly unilaterally declared union with Greece ( with Crete subsequently formally becoming part of Greece in 1913 ):

The Mayor of Quebec City, Jean-Georges Garneau, in 1908 appointed a landmark commission under the chairmanship of Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court François Langelier.

Before World War I he held a number of senior positions relating to weapons development, before being appointed Chief of Staff of the North Sea Command in 1908, rising to Rear Admiral on 27 January 1910.

In 1908, Hussein bin Ali was appointed Emir of Mecca.

In recognition of his efforts to resolve the Moroccan Crisis leading up to the international conference, Abd al-Aziz appointed al-Muqri as his Minister of Finance and in 1908, his Grand Vizier, a post he would hold on and off under each of the succeeding sultans until 1955.

He was appointed to the Distinguished Service Order in 1906 and was Commandant with the temporary rank of lieutenant colonel from 1908 onwards.

It was only when he succeeded to the Dukedom of Devonshire on 24 March 1908 that Cavendish quit his commons seat and took his place in the House of Lords, the same year in which Cavendish was appointed as Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire.

In 1908, he was appointed physician to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Infectious Diseases.

In 1908, he was appointed professor of early Irish history at University College Dublin ( UCD ).

In 1908 he was appointed as minister in The Hague, The Netherlands.

By 1908, Zhao was appointed imperial resident in Lhasa.

He was appointed to the Privy Council in 1908 and in 1933 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Rennell, of Rodd in the County of Hereford.

In 1908, he was appointed solicitor for the second circuit of South Carolina, having served until 1910.

Spemann was appointed Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at Rostock in 1908 and, in 1914, Associate Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Biology at Dahlem, Berlin.

In January 1908, a month after Bill had turned two, the family moved to Murringo, after Ernest was appointed the headmaster.