Word: charter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...held longer than one week. This language is plain. It indicates unmistakably that the degree may be voted, handed over, and then probably reclaimed. The writer's argument discusses the power of the overseers to take a much milder stand - to abstain from the final execution of the charter-power until certain conditions are fulfilled. This question is not at issue. The college authorities can surely announce that they will not vote to confer degrees unless they see fit to do so. But to say - if the English means anything - that they will meet, formally vote the degrees, either with...
...attorney-general of New York has granted a hearing on an application made to him by Joseph P. Greaves, to bring suit in the name of the people against the Western Union Telegraph Co., to vacate its charter and remove the directors...
...treasurer and secretary of the "Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women," at Cambridge, popularly known as the Harvard "Annex." We summarize the chief points mentioned in these reports. The most important advance made by this institution during the past year has been the securing of a charter of incorporation from the State by its friends. In accordance with the avowed object of the society aiming at the introduction of coeducation into Harvard University the charter has been made to state the objects of the organization to be to promote "the education of women with the assistance of the instructors...
...into the possession of Merton College, and is annexed to it, while the resigning principal is to receive a pension from that society. St. Alban Hall is thus the first of the halls to suffer extinction. Magdalen Hall was some years since endowed by Mr. Baring, and received a charter of incorporation as Hertford College. St. Mary Hall, New Inn Hall and St. Edmund Hall are ultimately destined to absorption by Oriel, Balliol and Queen's colleges, respectively...
...Professors Ticknor and Norton advocated with great earnestness and ability the right of all members of the faculty to seats in the governing board, while the legal members of the corporation and overseers maintained that representation could not be claimed as a right, either from the terms of the charter or from the history and use of the word 'fellow.' This position was taken by Judges Story and Jackson, and Chief-Justice Parker and others. The decision was in accordance with the latter view. Owing to questions of reorganization at the time, which occasioned diverse opinions, the application...