Word: acte
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long list. The proposition is for the consolidation of the educational institutions of Indiana into what is called "one grand university," to be established in Indianapolis. The colleges at Lafayette and Bloomington were founded by congressional aid, and therefore the consent of Congress in the form of an enabling act would be required before this scheme can be carried into effect. The tendency to unite colleges is something like the popular habit of consolidating business enterprises, but it is a mistake to think that heaping up several colleges make a university. Mere bulk is not enough...
...store. When the news of the outrage became known the freshman class promptly met and reported the matter to the faculty. They, on their part, have taken measures for expelling the offenders, who it appears have been guilty of other atrocities only rivalled in cruelty by the above described act. One freshman reports that he was recently visited and forcibly denuded of a mustache that he had only just secured after a great outlay of time and money, and which, it was confidently believed, was the only bona fide article in the entire class. The sophomore class, we are surprised...
...learn that the class fund of the class of 1828, amounting to nearly $3000, has passed into the possession of the college to found a scholarship under certain restrictions; that the corporation has no purpose of erecting a fence around Jarvis field; that a committee from the corporation to act with the faculty committee on all matters of college athletics has been appointed, consisting of Messrs. Adams and Agassiz; that further subscriptions have been received by the treasurer towards the fund for retiring allowances, and also towards the permanent observatory fund; besides other minor matters of interest. The overseers have...
...separate committees would have decidedly partisan views, and have considered that the only way in which these questions could be decided is by the action of a disinterested neutral committee. In the letter of the 22d inst., they agreed to leave these questions to this committee and to act by its decision...
...North Carolina legislature has extended for two years the act providing for a settlement of the State debt...