Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the Sophomore class held last night, the president was authorized to appoint committees to arrange for the class smoker and to make preliminary arrangements for the class dinner. The committees were appointed as follows: Smoker committee--R. W. Leatherbee, ex officio, J. P. Bowditch, R. A. Derby; dinner committee--R. W. Leatherbee, ex officio, W. A. Schick, C. C. Bolton, J. D. Tew, G. M. Heathcote...
...Freshman class meeting held last evening the report of the committee appointed to consider the advisability of adopting a class constitution was accepted and ratified. The committee had recently decided that there was no necessity for a constitution. It was also voted that the President appoint a committee of nine, of which he should be chairman ex-officio, to make arrangements for a class dinner...
...writer, would probably never, be unearthed. The first article particularly the "Ph.D. Octopus," by William James, strikes one as being vital and altogether human. The statement that only a man of evident native power is now allowed to receive the degree, and that for a college to appoint instructors only with such qualifications is snobbery and sham, seem hardly consistent. Nevertheless the main point of the article--an appeal to value more the individuality of a man and his abilities than parchment he may possess--appeals to anyone's sentiment and sense--and is advanced with straightforward convincing earnestness...
...also voted that the President appoint a committee of five, of which he should be chairman ex officio, and R. Derby '03 an honorary member, to consider the advisability of adopting a class constitution, and to make public a report of its findings at least one week before the next meeting of the class...
...meeting of the Board of Overseers which was held at 50 State street, Boston, yesterday morning, it was voted to concur with the Corporation in making the following appointments from September 1, 1902: Irving Babbitt, A.M., Assistant Professor of French for five years; Walter Bradford Cannon, M.D., Assistant Professor of Physiology for five years; Gilbert Newton Lewis, Ph.D., instructor in Chemistry for three years. William Sturgis Bigelow, Arthur Tracy Cabot and J. Templeman Coolidge, Jr., were appointed trustees of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for one year from January 1, 1903, in pursuance of the prerogative given the overseers...