Word: actions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...accordance with the provisions of an arrangement drawn up in the fall of 1906, an alliance has been effected between the Andover Theological Seminary and Harvard University whereby the Theological Seminary will remove to Cambridge next fall and enter into affiliation with the University. This action was taken an a recent meeting of the Board of Oversceers when the proposal for such affiliation was presented to the Board by President Eliot...
...University expects a reform and looks to the Committee for some definite action...
...possible to secure his opinion until late last month, when he approved the plan. However, after examining the detailed design of the clock, which came last week, the Corporation voted against placing a clock on University Hall for fear that it might deface the building. In view of this action, the committee felt that it was now too late after the John Harvard celebration to begin work again on a new form of a memorial, and they therefore recommended that the plan be dropped...
There is very little plot, and the action centres around the four principal characters: Littlewit, a proctor; Busy, a Puritan; Cokes, an esquire of Harrow; and Overdo, a justice of the peace. The scene is laid at Bartholemew Fair, where the characters have gone for recreation. Cokes is buying toys and ballads, when Edgworth slips up and picks his pocket. Justice Overdo, who is present in disguise, is accused and placed in the stocks. Then the Puritan Busy enters, and, filled with fanatical zeal, tries to destroy the gaily-colored booths. He is also put in the stocks, where...
Besides the individual letters, a formal memorial will be sent to President Roosevelt. This will be an appeal to the United States government to take action in co-operation with England to afford protection to the natives of Congo in case the proposed annexation of the country by Belgium is carried into effect. This petition will be posted in the Union today, where it can be signed by all those who wish...