Word: chartering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University of Virginia has no chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, although Thomas Jefferson is said to have been the founder of both. A movement is now on foot at the University to secure a charter...
...decided against Cornell University By this decision Cornell loses $1,500,000 willed to at by Jennie McGray-Fiske, wife of Prof. Fiske and heiress of the McGray estates. The decision is based on the fact that Cornell University was limited by its Conell University was limited by its charter to property not exceeding $3,000.000, and that it had that amount before the bequest of Mrs. Fiske. The future disposition of this money which will involve long litle gation is not determined by this decision...
...popular education in the South. The most fruitful result of this generous gift is the Peabody Normal College, at Nashville, Tenn. As early as 1873 the trustees of the Peabody fund decided to establish a normal college in the South. Application was made to the Tennessee Legislature to charter such an institution, the trustees promising to contribute liberally to its support. In 1875 the bill was passed and in December of the same year the college opened with Dr. E. S. Stearns as President...
...practically irresponsible men. All transactions are secret, and there is no effective method of judicial control. Pools and corporations are public contracts, and are thus under the control of the laws. A law should be passed by Congress, that all combinations giving property to trustees shall be incorporated with charters, and obliged to publish their a ccounts. Upon information filed by the attorney general of any state that any corporation is injurious to the public welfare, the charter shall be taken away. This regulation would destroy the essential character of trusts, and would amount to suppression...
...wide-spread and exorbitant prices were paid for rides. A number of Wall St. brokers collected around a solitary cab and a spirited bidding took place for its possession, The price which that cab brought was thirty-six dollars. It was a common occurrence for several men to charter a coach to take them to their houses, often paying as high as eight dollars per man. Social events of all kinds were postponed, as the livery stables refused to send out any scabs. Business was practically at a stand-still. Of the eleven hundred members of the stock exchange, thirty...