Word: charter
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...rapid increase of colleges in this country is evident from the fact that before the Revolutionary war there were but nine in existence. Harvard was the first to be founded in 1636; William and Mary next in 1692; Yale in 1701, and Princeton in 1746. The charter for the University of Pennsylvania was granted in 1749, and eight years later, in 1757, King's College was founded in New York city. An iron crown was placed upon it, as the emblem of royalty, but this was removed when the institution took the name of Columbia College. The Rhode Island College...
...speakers to represent Harvard against Yale are to be chosen by competitive debate to-night. At the same time the judges will select those who, by the vote of the old Union, are to become the charter members of the new society. We have stated before that the proposed reform was one which will work eventually, if not immediately, for the interests of public speaking at Harvard. We still feel that in saying this we are expressing the sentiment of the college at large, in spite of the criticism of a certain speaker at the last meeting of the Union...
...Friday evening to select speakers to meet Yale, the judges should select the best twelve men, the first three to debate with Yale, the whole twelve to form the nucleus of the new society. In addition, those members who spoke in the last Yale debate were also to be charter members. At the meeting last evening an attempt was made to declare the amendment unconstitutional by refusing to accept the minutes of the last meeting including the amendment. The president of the Union ruled that even if the minutes were not accepted, the amendment to the constitution would stand...
...competitive debate to select speakers to meet Yale, the judges select the best twelve men, the first three to debate with Yale, the whole twelve to form the nucleus of the new society. In addition those members who spoke in the last Yale debate will also be charter-members...
...proposition has been made to build a Blaine Memorial Library for Bates College. Mr. Blaine assisted in framing the charter of that institution and was one of its appreciative supporters...