Word: charter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...original charter of the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa, which was lost several years ago and found again at a sale of antiquities last year, has been given by William and Mary College to the College Library. This charter was granted in 1779 by the "the members of the meeting Alpha of William and Mary College, Virginia," to their brother Elisha Parmeli, of the University at Cambridge. Parmeli received the chapter in person from the meeting Alpha in Virginia. He was allowed to stop at New Haven on his homeward journey, that he might organize there a Yale...
...observe the rule requiring each of them to have a medal of the society. Some years ago, however, the dies were lost and the custom of purchasing medals was given up. The dies have now been found, and the medals may be got at Guild's. Photographs of the charter also may be bought at the University book store...
Harry Stout Roberts, son of William Lippincott Roberts and Mary Van Dyke Stout, was born at Camden, New Jersey, on August 10th, 1874. He prepared for college at the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia. After receiving at Harvard the degree of A. B., he entered the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania. Being unable to continue his studies there on account of ill health, he went South to Bermuda. But his health failed to improve, and his death-caused immediately by some pulmonary trouble-occurred on January 27th...
...Yale Corporation have decided to appoint a committee to appoint a committee to prepare for the proper celebration in October 1901, of the bicentennial anniversary of the granting of the charter to Yale college...
...Marshall, guard; weight 186, height 6 ft. 2 1-2, age 21; prepared at Penn Charter...