Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class meeting of '83 last night Pach was elected photographer for next year by a vote of 20 to 18 for Notman. It was further voted that Mr. Pach be requested to take all the out-door groups himself, or appoint some more competent artist than the gentleman who at present represents him. Bids were presented from the Heliotype and Albertype Companies, but no vote was taken, as it was thought better to prepare subscription books in which men might signify their preference after having examined the relative merits of the two companies. The bid of the Heliotype Company...
...number of students taking Sanskrit has increased so rapidly at the University of Vienna that it has been found necessary to appoint a second professor...
...appropriating $10,000,000 annually as a national educational fund. The election committee has decided to report in favor of Lowe, the Greenbacker, in the Lowe. Wheeler Alabama contest. In the Senate the Court of Appeals bill was further discussed. It was charged that President Arthur has promised to appoint a number of Democrats to judgeships in the event of the bill's passage. The Indian appropriation bill was passed. Worthington's case will be decided tomorrow and his confirmation is expected...
...England now has five universities; formerly there were only two. Scotland has four, two having been united. Oxford and Cambridge have existed for many centuries as fully appointed universities. The University of London is not properly a university, but merely an examining body for granting degrees, and it does that kind of work thoroughly. The University of Durham is new and not yet prominent. The new university at Manchester is the outgrowth of Owens College and was originally endowed, like the Johns Hopkins, by a private founder, afterwards by subscriptions. It has become known chiefly by its work in natural...
...board of directors may appoint one or more members of the university as assistants to the superintendent. No assistant shall be appointed for a longer term than one year. Neither the superintendent nor his associates shall obtain pecuniary benefit from the society beyond the amount of their salaries, except the ordinary incidents of membership...