The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-03

send two or more delegates, and it
will indeed prove notable reunion.
Dublin will be the scene of a CAV festival.
lasting for an entire week, in which dis
tinguIshed visitors from all parts of the
globe will participate. The delegates from
Harvard will be Professor Joseph Henry
Thayer, ID. D., Bussey professor of New
Testament criticism, and Professor Will
lam Gibson Farlow, A. NJ, n. d.. professor
Of cryptogramic botany. From Yale there
will be Professor T. r. Lounsbury and
Rev. J. H. Twichell.
Princeton's delegate will be President
Patton himself. Cornell sends Professor
Hiram Corson. who occupies the chair of
English literature in that university.
From Columbia goes Professor Harry
Thurston Peck, in charge of the Latin
department of the school of arts. Johns
Hopkins delegates are President Daniel
C. Gilman, LII. d., and Simon Newcomb,
Phi. d., LII. d., professor of mathematics
and astronomy. The University of Penn
sylvania will be represented by Professor
Edmund J. James, PHI. ID (Halle), and
John A Billings, NJ. D., Ii. d., Pepper
professor of hygiene, director of the uni
institute of hygiene.
tUHSiucT WHdI ILLS CcteDT3tlOn UueduS.
Thirty years before the Mayfiower landed
at Plymouth rock the hardy pioneers who
were to found the fortunes of England's
American colonies, in Ireland the first
stone was laid of an institution designed
to meet the islands growing need for
higher education. And today the savage
soil the Pilgrims valiantly subdued is
transformed into q continent of mighty
r1fics Sfy1i1aA wit sntonHiJ rpivaroitias
known and honored the world over, who
send this week CHEEKY greeting across
the sea to their elder sister upon her three
hundredth birthday. 1t means three
centuries of progress for America and for
Ireland.
The University of Dublin has been called
the ripe and permanent product" of
Queen Elizabeth's reign. Toward the
close of the sixteenth century Sir John
Perrot, lore deputy of Ireland suggested
TO the virgin queen the establishment of
college in Dublin. He pointed out that
there existed IN that city piece of ground
whereon formerly stood the priory of the
Arosian canons. founded in 1l66 by
Dermot Marlborough, king of Leinster,
and which Pope Honorious III. had
sanctioned Henry de Londres, archbishop
of Dublin, to establish. When Henry
VIII. shut up the monasteries this
priory was deserted. 1t subsequently fell
into ruins, and was conveyed to the cor
poration of Dublin by royal grant. When
Sir John Perrot mooted his scheme the
loyal corporation, in order to express their
appreciation of his efforts and the queens
interest in the matter, handed over the
ground free as site for the college. Then
the illustrious Henry usher, archbishop
of Armagh, went through the form of
soliciting the royal charter, which was
granted, together with a license of mort
main, to enable the college TO hold the
lands in perpetuity (''of the yearly value
Of f20') and to found the university ''by
way of corporation" with power to accept
lands and contributions from voluntary
donors to the yearly value of f400.
Thus was founded the college of the
Holy and Undivided Trinity, the first stone
being laid on March -, 1891. On January
Q. 1893 the first students were admitted.
The executive was composed of provost
and three fellows Tin the name of more"
These were all elective offices. with a term
OF seven years, and We're endowed with
power to make laws and confer degrees
Archbishop LOTUS, of Dublin, was the
first provost. The great Lord Burleigh
was the first chancellor. There was also a
board of visitors composed of the chan
cellor, vice-chanceiior the Archbishop of
Dublin, Bishop of Meath the treasurer at
war, the chief justice and the mayor of
Dublin. These had power to settle diff
oulties which the provost and fellows
could not compose. The property of the