Word: chartering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Again we find the nine proposing a New York trip during the "May recess," which is to include matches with the Bedford "Atlantics," the Brooklyn "Excelsiors," the New York "Mutuals." and the Hartford "Charter Oaks." Where are these nines to-day? And where are the "Elysian Fields they once played...
...Fourth of July the Charter Oaks, Hartford, which three times defeated the Yale University nine, were taken into camp 16 to 14. A few days later, the Beacons were again beaten...
Preparations are now being made at Columbia for the celebration on the 13th of April of the centennial of the present corporation. Columbia College was chartered as King's College on the 31st of October, 1754. During the Revolution, when New York was captured by the English, the college was closed. In 1784 the State Legislature of New York passed an act which changes the name of the college to Columbia College and placed it under the control of a body entitled the "Regents of the University of New York." On the 13th of April, 1787 the State Legislature repealed...
...universities are among the most permanent of human institutions; they outlast particular forms of government and even the legal and industrial institutions in which they seem to be embedded. Harvard University already illustrates this transcendant vitality Its charter, granted in 1650, is in force to-day in every line, having survived in perfect integrity the prodigious political, social and commercial changes of more than two centuries. And still, after more than two centuries, do Winthrops, Endicotts, Saltonstalls, Bulkleys, Danforths, Rogerses, Hoars and Wigglesworths represent at these tables the founders of the college and the Commonwealth. Here, too, by our sides...
...proportion of her population as in those formative years of this portion of the American people. And who were these men, the larger part of whom were from Cambridge, and of whom at least a score were from Emmanuel? There was Simon Bradstreet, destined to span the two charter-periods of New England, and to be the veteran around whom the old-charter men rallied after the deposition of Andros. There was John Cotton, another son of Emmanuel, and what would early Boston have been without him and John Wilson, the leaders of its first church, - Cotton of Lincolnshire, bringing...