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See also:FISK, WILBUR (1792-1839) , See also:American educationist, was See also:born in See also:Brattleboro, See also:Vermont, on the 31st of See also:August 1792. He studied at the university of Vermont in 1812-1814, and then entered See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown University, where he graduated in 1815. He studied See also:law, and in 1817 came under the See also:influence of a religious revival in Vermont, where at Lyndon in the following See also:year he was licensed as a See also:local preacher and was admitted to the New See also:England See also:conference. His influence with the conference turned that See also:body from its opposition to higher See also:education as immoral in tendency to the See also:establishment of secondary See also:schools and colleges. Upon the removal in 1824 of the conference's See also:academy at New See also:Market, New See also:Hampshire, to Wilbraham, See also:Massachusetts, Fisk became one of its agents and trustees, and in 1826 its See also:principal. He drafted the See also:report of the See also:committee on education to the See also:general conference in 1828, at which See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he declined the bishopric of the See also:Canada conference. He was first See also:president of Wesleyan University from the opening of the university in 1831 until his See also:death on the 22nd of See also:February 1839 in See also:Middle-See also:town, See also:Connecticut. His successful See also:administration of the Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham and of Wesleyan University were remark-able. He was an able controversialist, and in the interests of Arminianism attacked both New England Calvinism and See also:Unitarianism; he published in 1837 The Calvinistic Controversy. He also wrote Travels on the See also:Continent of See also:Europe (1838).
See Le and Writings of Wilbur Fisk (New See also:York, 1842), edited by See also:Joseph Holdich, and the See also:biography by See also:George Prentice (See also:Boston, 1890), in the American Religious Leaders See also:Series; also a See also:sketch in See also:Memoirs of Teachers and Educators (Nevg York, 1861), edited by See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Barnard.
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