Word: accepted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Voted, That in case the president and fellows of Harvard College accept the powers conferred by the foregoing vote, the said president and fellows be requested to empower the president of Harvard University to countersign the diplomas of this corporation and to affix the seal of Harvard University to said diplomas...
...Issue of state bank notes is desirable. (a) Before the war many state banks issued sound notes. (b) State bank-notes could be made safe. (1) The government would accept for taxes only notes sufficiently secured. Harter, Forum, vol. XII. (2) Inflation is preventable by a tax on circulation above a fixed maximum...
Yale is to lose a rising and valued professor. Edward B. Clapp, of the Greek department, has just tendered his resignation to the faculty in order that he may accept the position of professor of Greek in the University of California...
...other thought than a candidate's fitness and merit for office should govern the elections tonight of Class Day officers from Ninety-four. It is not for two or three men to settle between them which one shall accept a nomination, for that is not fair to the Class. The voters themselves should decide between several candidates and not the candidates themselves. Much more unfair is it for any one clique or combination of cliques to interpret the sentiment of the class and to use their influence to keep out of prominence men who have at least a claim...
Perhaps this increase is due in large measure to Professor I. N. Hollis, who succeeds Professor W. H. Burr, recently resigned to accept a position at Columbia. Professor Hollis is a man who has had wide experience in engineering lines and is an expert in his subject. He was assistant engineer in the navy department, has designed the engines of several new large vessels, and has been with the Bureau of Steam Engineering at Washington. He will have here seven courses under his direct charge, including an entirely new one in mechanical engineering. The following are some of the changes...