Word: boards
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...John Welsh, president of the Centennial Board of Finance, has turned over the testimonial fund of $50,000, with which he was honored, to the University of Pennsylvania, to endow a "John Welsh Centennial Professorship...
There are, however, two slight features in the present system of government which are still in need of improvement. It seems to be an unwritten law that no one outside of the State or almost outside the immediate vicinity of Cambridge can be on the Board of Overseers. The College has a large number of prominent graduates who live outside this State, and there is no reason, now that communication is so easy, why a graduate living in New York or even farther off than New York should not serve on the board. In the President's Report...
...with great regret that we chronicle the retirement of our Senior Board, as it is mainly due to their efforts that the Crimson has of late been more successful financially than ever before. The board from the Sophomore Class is composed as follows: Wilmot T. Cox, George H. Davis, Edward C. Perkins, Joseph G. Thorp, Jr., William G. Twombly, and William Sheafe, Business Editor...
...article is his denunciation of what he calls "Harvard contempt," "Cambridge Miss-Nancyism." None of his examples prove anything to his purpose. Of the worthlessness of student opinion as to the character and abilities of a fellow-student we are all aware. Harvard College has placed on its governing board two of the gentlemen mentioned, and has bestowed upon them other marks of honor. Of the influence Mr. Emerson and Mr. Adams have on the thought and opinion of Harvard students it is unnecessary to speak. The charge that Mr. Sumner was impolitely treated at a dinner in Cambridge...
...college boarding-house, where seventy students board, the expenses of last term exceeded the receipts by $500, and the board has now been raised from $300 to $3.50 per week...