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  Smith, Goldwin
Smith was convinced that Canada was not viable as a nation (courtesy Library and Archives Canada/PA-29624).
Smith, Goldwin, "Annexation" to his opponents, historian, journalist (b at Reading, Eng 13 Aug 1823; d at Toronto 7 June 1910).
Smith was educated at Eton and Oxford, where his liberal stand against the conservative Tractarian movement led to his appointment to 2 royal commissions on the university.
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Smith had been active in demanding a Royal Commission of inquiry into the administration of the University, and when such a commission was appointed at the end of August 1850, he became its assistant secretary.
Smith must also be regarded as one of those who recommended the preparation of the Oxford dictionaries and the establishment of provincial universities in England, to undertake instruction in practical science.
Smith in England was a small part of a large and elaborate organization, but at least he was part of it: in Canada, he was a man of place and wealth, bearing no recognizable relation to the whole, an outsider, a "Bystander" as he knew himself to be.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Smith apparently admired Newman’s style but he was repelled by the movement’s ritualistic tendencies and its affinities with Roman Catholicism.
Smith was attracted by the determination of its founder, Ezra Cornell, to organize a university that was non-sectarian and open to all classes of society, though he had no sympathy for its commitment to coeducation.
Smith’s private secretary, Theodore Arnold Haultain, compiled and published a collection of letters in A selection from Goldwin Smith’s correspondence, comprising letters chiefly to and from his English friends, written between the years 1846 and 1910 (Toronto, [1913?]); additional correspondence by Smith has been published in “Letters of Goldwin Smith to Charles Eliot Norton,” Mass.
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 Smith, Goldwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Smith, Goldwin, "Annexation" to his opponents, historian, journalist (b at Reading, Eng 13 Aug 1823; d at Toronto 7 June 1910).
An acknowledged historian and journalist when he settled permanently in Canada in 1871, Smith became best known to Canadians as the advocate of union with the US as a prerequisite to moral unification of the Anglo-Saxon race.
Smith was educated at Eton and Oxford, where his liberal stand against the conservative Tractarian movement led to his appointment to 2 royal commissions on the university.
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 Charles G.D. Roberts - Non-Fictional Prose - Confederation Poets - Canadian Poetry
Goldwin Smith may be considered to have struck deep root into Canadian soil; and his wife, whose bright hospitality gives The Grange its highest charm, is a Canadian woman, he has every right to regard himself as identified with Canada.
Smith is very tall, straight, spare; his face keen, grave, almost severe; his iron-gray hair cut close; his eyes restless, alert, piercing, but capable at times of an unexpected gentleness and sweetness; his smile so agreeable that one must the more lament its rarity.
Smith and Canadian Nationalism, as the Nationalist movement is now too big to fear laughter I may mention the sad fate of the first efforts to institute such a movement.
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 §30. Goldwin Smith. II. Historians, Biographers and Political Orators. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The ...
Two English historical writers who, though in very different ways, came into close contact with important political ideas of the nineteenth century, and, more especially, with those concerning the progressive development of the British Empire, were, at not very distant dates, conspicuous personages in the life of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge respectively.
Each in his way a master of style, Goldwin Smith and Sir John Robert Seeley differed fundamentally from one another in the political conceptions which pervaded their historical writing.
In 1858, Goldwin Smith was made a member of the commission on national education.
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 AllRefer.com - Goldwin Smith (Education, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Goldwin Smith 1823–1910, English educator, historian, and journalist.
Educated at Oxford, he took a prominent part in executing reforms at the university and became (1858) professor of modern history there.
In 1868, Smith moved to the United States after accepting a position as professor of English literature and constitutional history at Cornell Univ. Although he retained the professorship until 1881, his removal to Canada (1870) prevented him from assuming full-time duties at the university during most of his tenure.
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 Goldwin Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Goldwin Smith (August 13, 1823 – June 7, 1910), was a British-Canadian historian and journalist.
Goldwin Smith is credited with the quote "Above all nations is humanity", an inscription that was engraved in a stone bench he offered to the Cornell in May 1871.
However, modern readers are often surprised by the deep anti-semitism of many of Smith's writings.
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 The Controversialist — www.greenwood.com
Description: Goldwin Smith (1823-1910) was a celebrated, transatlantic writer on current events, politics, religion, history, and literature.
Determined to rouse concern over issues that he deemed to be important to the advancement of humanity, Smith was deemed the "controversialist" by the Dictionary of National Biography.
Phillips argues that the core of Smith's thought and the driving force behind his role as a controversialist lay in his moral philosophy, which provided a sense of direction to Smith's many and sometimes disparate writings and activities.
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 §30. Goldwin Smith. II. Historians, Biographers and Political Orators. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Two English historical writers who, though in very different ways, came into close contact with important political ideas of the nineteenth century, and, more especially, with those concerning the progressive development of the British Empire, were, at not very distant dates, conspicuous personages in the life of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge respectively.
Each in his way a master of style, Goldwin Smith and Sir John Robert Seeley differed fundamentally from one another in the political conceptions which pervaded their historical writing.
In 1858, Goldwin Smith was made a member of the commission on national education.
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 Goldwin Smith -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Goldwin Smith (August 13, 1823 – June 7, 1910), was a (The people of Great Britain) British (A person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it) historian and (A writer for newspapers and magazines) journalist.
Goldwin Smith is credited with the quote "Above all nations is humanity", an inscription that was engraved in a stone bench he offered to the (United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874)) Cornell in May 1871.
This quote is the motto of the (Click link for more info and facts about University of Hawaii) University of Hawaii and other institutions around the world (for example, the Cosmopolitan Club at the University of Illinois).
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 Goldwin Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Goldwin Smith (August 13, 1823 - June 7, 1910), was a British historian and journalist.
Goldwin Smith is credited with the quote "Above all nations is humanity", an inscription that was engraved in a stone bench heoffered to the University of Cornell in May 1871.
This quote is the motto of the University of Hawaii and other institutions around the world (for example, the Cosmopolitan Club atthe University of Illinois).
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 HENRY BOYNTON SMITH - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY BOYNTON SMITH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Of the old school of the - New England Theology, Smith was one of the foremost leaders of the new school Presbyterians.
See E. (Mrs H. B.) Smith, Henry Boynton Smith, His Life and Works (New York, 1881), and Lewis F. Stearns, Henry Boynton Smith (Boston, 1892), in the American Religious Leaders series.
He always made it clear that the ideal philosophy was Christocentric: he said that Reformed theology must Christologize predestination and decrees, regeneration and sanctification, the doctrine of the Church, and the whole of the Eschatology.
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 The Nation, 03/22/1894 - Goldwin Smith's Political Essays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
...Smith: "The people of the United States have a written Constitution which emanates from themselves and is the subject of their profound reverence...
...Smith says that it is really the consumer and not the employer who pays the increase of wages...
...Smith, are two-fold: first, there is the tremendous upheaval in which the combining forces are philanthropic, sentimental, demagogic, agrarian...
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 Goldwin Smith - Canadian History
However, he would later become convinced that the new nation was a political, economic and cultural failure and drift towards a passive form of annexationism.
In the decades that followed his arrival in Canada he played a key role in the development of several Canadian journals, including the Canadian Monthly, the Nation and the Week, and wrote and published the Bystander, a small but influential journal of political and social commentary.
Though Goldwin Smith had not been a major figure in British liberal circles, he was considered the most prominent Canadian thinker of his time.
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 Author : works by Goldwin Smith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Goldwin Smith (August 13, 1823-June 7, 1910), was a British historian and journalist.He was born at Reading, England.He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and after a brilliant undergraduate career he was elected to a fellowship at University College, Oxford.
He died at his residence, The Grange, Toronto.Goldwin Smith is credited with the quote "Above all nations is humanity", an inscription that was engraved in a stone bench he offered to the University of Cornell in May 1871.
The movement was strongly attacked by supporters of a continuing tie to Britain, although Canada First never proposed breaking ties with Britain, and Smith and Blake eventually withdrew their support, Smith becoming a proponent of annexation to the United States.
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 Guide to the Vladimir and Véra Nabokov Publishing Correspondence,1945-1977
Written from Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca NY, in French, announcing that he has received the money from Girodias, and believes that he will not have any difficult registering copyright in the US except for the fact that he is not receiving any cooperation from Girodias.
Written from Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca NY, in English, asking that he and Ergaz assess the status of the numerous ongoing contract negotiations, requiring from E. a list of the titles she has sold or is trying to sell and to whom, and explaining that VN would like to negotiate his contracts himself.
Written from Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca NY, in English, detailing VN’s various grievances re: the Steimatzki matter, including suspicions that Ergaz is either acting carelessly or in cahoots with Girodias (as indicated by the fact that G. has seen at least one of VN’s letters to Ergaz), and continued irritation with Girodias.
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 Goldwin Smith — FactMonster.com
Smith, Goldwin, 1823–1910, English educator, historian, and journalist.
Educated at Oxford, he took a prominent part in executing reforms at the university and became (1858) professor of modern history there.
In 1868, Smith moved to the United States after accepting a position as professor of English literature and constitutional history at Cornell Univ. Although he retained the professorship until 1881, his removal to Canada (1870) prevented him from assuming full-time duties at the university during most of his tenure.
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 Smith, Goldwin. Papers at Cornell University, 1844-1915 [i.e. 1913]. Patricia H. Gaffney, editor
The Goldwin Smith papers contain letters from leading statesmen, journalists and literary men, with whom he corresponded for half a century.
In addition, it contains subject indices to Smith's contributions to the Weekly Sun from 1905 to 1909 and to the Bystander columns in the Weekly Sun from August 3, 1896 through December 28, 1904.
Goldwin Smith's comments upon current events, his criticism of the nature of Canadian nationality, and his conception of the place of Canada in the English speaking world are valuable for the study of Canada from 1867 to 1914.
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 Goldwin Smith on America (The Nation, June 8, 1866)
Goldwin Smith on America (The Nation, June 8, 1866)
This book is recently published by Simpkin, Marshall and Co. In an address by professor Goldwin Smith, delivered before the Union and Emancipation Society of Manchester, England, which is represented in a book-form under the said heading.
The book is not only confined to the history of Civil War and American life, but it deals with demographic thoughts before and after with analyzing the cause of liberty and human progress.
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 Smith, F. Hopkinson -- Smith, Goldwin: in Cornell University's Making of America
Smith, F. Hopkinson, The Pastels Of Edwin A Abbey.
Smith, George E. In the Ranks at Fredericksburg.
Smith, Goldwin, The Prospect of a Moral Interregnum.
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 GOLDWIN SMITH - LoveToKnow Article on GOLDWIN SMITH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
GOLDWIN SMITH - LoveToKnow Article on GOLDWIN SMITH
Goidwin Smith left in manuscript a book of reminiscences, which was edited by Mr Arnold Haultain, his private secretary.
To properly cite this GOLDWIN SMITH article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
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 The Nation, 06/08/1866 - Goldwin Smith on America
This book is recently published by Simpkin, Marshall and Co. In an address by professor Goldwin Smith, delivered before the Union and Emancipation Society of Manchester, England, which is represented in a book-form under the said heading.
The book is not only confined to the history of Civil War and American life, but it deals with demographic thoughts before and after with analyzing the cause of liberty and human progress.
...It is an address by Professor Goldwin Smith, delivered before the Union, and Emancipation Society of Manchester, and now printed under the title of " The Civil War in America...
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 Goldwin Smith
SMITH, Goldwin, Canadian author, born in Reading, Berkshire, England, 13 August, 1823.
In 1864 he visited this country and gave a series of lectures, receiving an enthusiastic welcome and the degree of EL.
He returned to the United States in 1868, was appoint% ed professor of English and constitutional history in Cornell university, and resided at Ithaca till 1871, when he exchanged his chair for that of a nonresident professor, and removed to Toronto, where he has resided ever since Professor Smith was appointed a member 1574.,.
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