Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard, to impair the interest which graduates feel in the University, or to increase the all too prevalent suspicion that the authorities of the University desire to maintain a close corporation. If the statutes of the Board of Overseers cannot be interpreted, like those of other colleges, to admit members who are not resident in the State, the liberal progress of the University demands a change in the statutes. In Dr. Bellows the College loses one of its most valuable advisers...