John Early (July 1, 1814 – May 23, 1873) was a Catholic priest and
Jesuit who held several prominent positions in American academia. Born
in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States in 1833 and was educated
in Maryland and Washington, D.C. After he began ministering, he was
appointed the president of the College of the Holy Cross in 1848. In
1852, he founded St. Ignatius Church and Loyola College in Baltimore to
educate the lay former students of St. Mary's Seminary and College.
Early left in 1858 to become the president of Georgetown University,
which operated through the Civil War despite being commandeered several
times by the Union Army. In 1866, Early returned to Loyola College as
president, where he restarted the conferral of degrees following the
war. He finally returned to Georgetown in 1870 as president and oversaw
the first years of the Law Department. He died in 1873.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Early_%28educator%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1874:
The Remington No. 1, the first commercially successful
typewriter, went on sale.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholes_and_Glidden_typewriter>
1943:
The municipality of Tokyo City was dissolved, with its
territory forming the special wards of the newly established Tokyo
Metropolis (government building pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo>
2008:
Rioting erupted in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, over allegations of
fraud surrounding the recent legislative election.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_riot_in_Mongolia>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
motlopi:
The shepherd tree or shepherd's tree (Boscia albitrunca), an evergreen
tree native to southern and tropical Africa which is one of the most
important forage trees of the Kalahari.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/motlopi>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to
chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and
through which man can best learn how small he is.
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Georg_Christoph_Lichtenberg>