Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first charter was granted to Princeton College on October 22, 1746, by Governor John Hamilton. This was the first college charter conferred in America by the independent action of a provincial governor. The charter of Harvard was granted by an act of the legislature of Massachusetts; the charter of Yale was an act of the legislature of Connecticut; and that of William and Mary was granted directly by those sovereigns...
...name of John Hamilton, therefore, is given a conspicuous place in every list of founders of Princeton University. He granted the first charter against the precedent made by the governor whom he succeeded in the executive chair; and he granted it with alacrity, certainly without vexatious delay...
...Present Charter Granted...
...Marns, a man of unimpeachable probity and ruined finances, is endeavoring to construct a canal through a small town in New York. He has secured the option on the land desired from the land owners, who are poor farmers. He is continually blocked in his efforts to get the charter granted by the local coal trust and several other powerful corporations, whose interests would be jeopardized by the building of the canal. Marns, his ward, Faith Stuart and several others who have the interest of the community at heart, are struggling to secure the granting of the charter in spite...
...regard to transferring the Commencement exercises to the Stadium (which is in Boston)," the Graduates' Magazine says, "some one has raised the query whether the College charter makes any requirement as to the conferring of degrees at 'the University in Cambridge.' The answer is that neither the original charter nor any subsequent statute says anything about the right to confer degrees. Rather curiously the University's right to confer degrees rests upon no formal grants in the charter or by statute...