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27 de jun. de 2024 · Theodore Dwight Woolsey was an American educator and scholar, president of Yale (1846–71), whose many innovations later became common in institutions of higher learning. Woolsey graduated as head of his class at Yale in 1820, and in 1831 he was appointed professor of Greek there.
Hace 5 días · The Hall of Fame for Great Americans is an outdoor sculpture gallery located on the grounds of Bronx Community College (BCC) in the Bronx, New York City. It was the first such hall of fame in the United States.
14 de jun. de 2024 · In an 1860 textbook, Introduction to the Study of International Law, Theodore Woolsey began his definition of international law by stating, "[n]ations or organized communities of men differ from the individual men of a state, in that they are self-governed, that no law is imposed on them by an external human power, but they retain ...
12 de jun. de 2024 · Theodore Dwight Woolsey (Yale 1820), New Haven, Connecticut, to Benjamin F. Thompson, Hempstead, Long Island, 1841 October 25. Description. A. Conger Goodyear (1877-1964) (Yale 1899) succeeded his father, Charles W. Goodyear, as director of the Buffalo Academy of Fine Arts in 1912 and was appointed the first president of the Museum ...
Hace 3 días · The 1932 United States presidential election was the 37th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1932. The election took place against the backdrop of the Great Depression. The incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover was defeated in a landslide by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, the governor of New York ...
Hace 5 días · Theodore Roosevelt, the 26 th U.S. president, was the first to issue more than one thousand executive orders alone; while Woodrow Wilson, who was in office during the First World War, signed more...
2 de jul. de 2024 · Private Collector Heathcote Muirson Woolsey, Rye, NY, United States. From The Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné (EJCR). Patricia Hills, Ph.D., Founder and Director and Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager.
