Word: act
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...auditor shall act as secretary to the board and shall be required to attend all meetings of the board unless otherwise instructed...
...object of the third change is to avoid the possibility of having the whole board retire at once, and to insure, by retaining half the old board in office after each election, a continuity of policy and experience which has hitherto been lacking. As the auditor is now to act as secretary of the board, the office of vice-president, which has been identical with the secretaryship, becomes superfluous...
...act has been passed by the Massachusetts Legislature, obliging law students to take the same bar examination. This was done to abolish the practice, often employed by candidates, of taking the examination outside of their own country, wherever it was thought to be easiest...
...term of service as University Preacher. Though, as a graduate of Harvard, President Hyde is one of our own number and doubtless feels a special interest on that account in the service to which he has been invited, yet as the head of a neighboring college, he performs an act of friendship and courtesy in coming here, which cannot fail to be appreciated, especially as it necessitates a complete interruption, for the time being, of his action and valued work as head of a neighboring college. Here is certainly a most pleasing evidence of an intercollegiate fellowship, which no university...
...baseball candidates this season-Jayne, last year's pitcher; ex-captain Bradley, and William Clarke, catcher on the Baltimore nine. The latter will coach the team a few weeks before the games with Harvard and Yale. Jayne will have full charge of the pitchers and Bradley will act as general coach...