Word: charter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prominent topic of conversation. The proposal to endow a university with land, books, etc., to the amount of nearly $2,000,000 was made about a year ago to the City of Worcester. The gift having been accepted by the city, it was an easy matter to obtain a charter from the legislature. A brief delay was experienced by the formation of the corporation and the choice of suitable plans for the different college buildings. As soon as the preliminary difficulties were overcome, active operations were begun on the main building. This took place early in the spring...
...facts, such as the boat race of the undergraduate day - the authority of the book, has already made the readers of this familiar with much retold in this volume. The frontispiece is a facsimile of the earliest existing record of the college - ; another facsimile; a photogravure of the original charter of Harvard, dating "the one and thirtieth day of the third month called May, 1650," is given, and two views of the yard in 1821, after Alvan Fisher, complete the illustrations...
...Livermore of Dartmouth, O. Applegate of Trinity, H. E. Bigelow of Williams and F. L. Talbot of Bowdoin. There was considerable enthusiasm over the arrangements for the spring meeting. It was decided to offer a cup and medals as prizes, and to hold the first field meeting at Charter Oak Park, Hartford, Friday, May 27, at 1.30 o'clock. J. T. Cunningham, Dartmouth '87, was elected grand marshal. The list of events for competition decided on are as follows: Throwing base-ball, two-mile run, 100-yard dash, standing high jump, putting shot, mile run, throwing the 16-pound hammer...
...BETA KAPPA.This society was first introduced into this country about the year 1776, in which year a charter was granted to the college of William and Mary of Virginia. The society quickly extended to Harvard, and a chapter was founded there in 1781. The object of the society was the promotion of literature and friendly intercourse among scholars, but only those students who obtained a high rank were admitted. The motto of the society is "Philosophia, Biou Kubernetes," or "Philosophy, the Guide of Life." The Phi Beta Kappa now has chapters in very nearly every college of note...
...present Williams and Mary College Va., is said not to have a single student; but the venerable president rings the bell regularly every morning, keeps the doors open for students, preserves the charter, and it may be presumed his salary...