Word: acte
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...representative meeting of the Oxford Association for the Education of Women has voted, four to one, to memorialize Oxford University in behalf of conferring degrees upon women. The Association has hitherto been divided on the question of policy, and the vote shows a somewhat remarkable development of opinion. An act of Parliament is not necessary for Oxford and Cambridge in respect to this matter, but the board of Trinity College at Dublin, desiring to find some excuse for their unwillingness to admit women to lectures and degree examinations, have found out that the college's constitution will not allow them...
...Corporation met during the week. Its most interesting act was the passing of a statute in regard to caps, hoods and gowns as academic costumes. The statute had been agreed upon by representatives from Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and one or two other colleges - Harvard not included - and is recommended to all institutions of learning in the country. Bachelor's, master's, and doctor's degrees, and members of the Faculty have distinguishing gowns, the latter also having differences of color, thus: Faculty and Art Letters, white; Faculty of Theology, scarlet; Faculty of Law, purple; Faculty of Medicine, green; Faculty...
...Buccaneer" met with graduate's night, the play is bound to be a success, and the music especially popular. F. E. Barry '97, the composer, was presented with a gold and ivory tipped baton by the principals and members of the chorus, and at the close of the first act both Barry and Stephens the librettist, were loudly cheered...
...Prelude Act III, "Lohengrin," Wagner...
...YORK, May 23. - Dr. W. A. Brooks, Harvard '87, has consented to act as referee of the triangular race to be rowed by Columbia, Cornell, and University of Pennsylvania, at Poughkeepsie on June...