Word: charter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...charter of Brown University requires that the president be a Baptist minster; the charter of Yale requires quires a Congregational minister for that capacity...
...Crescent Athletic Association of Brooklyn is soon to be organized. Graduates of Yale, Harvard, and Princeton are among the charter members...
...candidates for the outgoing President's office there are very many. The charter, so ably defended by President Porter, requires the choice of a clergyman, a consideration which bars out such men as ex-President White of Cornell; President Gilman of Johns Hopkins, General Francis A. Walker, and certain members of the faculty whose names have been proposed. True, it would be easy to ordain either of such men as was done in President Woolsey's case, but it is not likely that such a step will be taken. At present, the indications are that the professor of Sacred Literature...
...elected by the alumni. This should be our House of Commons, but as a matter of fact the overseerspartly for reasons to be stated further on, and partly in consequence of a peculiar provision of our character-play an insignificant part in the government of the college. The charter, or rather the appendix to the charter, provides that whatever the corporation does shall have full force without dependence upon the consent of the overseers, * * * provided always that the acts of the corporation shall be alterable by the overseers, according to their discretion. No limit of time is set within which...
...only such time as they can spare from other pursuits. Of course they necessarily receive all their information at second hand. These two things constitute-as they themselves frankly admit-their weakness. This weakness should be removed, unless the college is to be ruled in the future as its charter causes it to be ruled at present, namely by a single man, the president, acting through a body of office holders of his own appointment, and a cabinet-not experts either-of his own suggestion. By a curious anomaly, the office-holders are the Parliament...