Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other officers of government, particularly, to acquire a knowledge of the management of the ladders, since they are always resident at the college, while the students are changing, and they would then be competent to oversee the placing of the ladders in time of fire. If the superintendent should appoint an hour in which he would explain the workings of the ladders, the students would certainly co-operate with him as he desires...
...Boat Club the secretary read a letter of Prof. Wheeler's from Prof. Agassiz of Harvard in which he regretted that, during his abscence, Yale had not been informed that all Harvard's boating interests had been entrusted to the hands of a graduate committee. He asked that Yale appoint a similar committee to confer with theirs. "Now it has always been the sentiment here," says the News, "that our boating be confined to the under-graduates as much as possible: they row the races, they should have the say. However, out of courtesy, our present committee thought such...
...explain it. I was very much shocked when he explained to me that he knew no more about it than I did. Now we often find in the papers ambiguities and difficulties which we did not perceive while the professor was present, and it would be extremely appropriate to appoint a scientific graduate, for instance, to an examination in natural science, and so on for the other subjects; so that the proctor would be able to understand and to decide in case of ambiguities. There is one other reason, too, which a proctor has suggested to me, and that...
Section 7 - The board of directors, in conjunction with the president and the secretary and treasurer, shall have entire jurisdiction over the affairs of the association. At the beginning of each academic year they shall be required, with the assistance of any others whom they may appoint to make a thorough canvass of the college for subscriptions...
...also made to believe that the athletic committee in its meetings with the special committee of the corporation, composed of Mr. John Quincy Adams and Mr. Alexander Agassiz, has discussed the subject of a trainer. It is proposed to appoint an assistant to Dr. Sargent, who shall make the scientific study of sports his specialty, and shall look after the men engaged particularly in field sports, and shall be a regular part of the college, not hired by separate men. By a thorough investigation of these particular branches of athletics he will be much better prepared, it is said, than...