Word: chief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...board, which will consist of the above members of the third year class, together with members from the second and first year classes, has not yet been fully made up, and will be announced later. The president of the association will, ex officio, occupy the position of editor-in-chief. Mr. J. W. Mack has been chosen as business manager...
...Yale men claim that the chief reason they have held aloof from joining the proposed league between Harvard, Princeton and Yale is based on the fear that if a dispute should arise, Princeton and Harvard would combine against Yale. This is merely a protest to screen themselves for their backwardness in uniting with Harvard and Princeton as they know well enough that everything passed by the league has to be done so unanimously...
Polo affords the chief diversion to the students of Exeter academy during the winter months...
Every collegiate degree given twenty-five years ago claimed to represent a certain amount of knowledge, and indicated roughly the chief sources of that knowledge. The Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Philosophy had studied little or no Greek, more rarely no Latin. In no case did the degree claim to represent even a minimum of culture. In this sense all degrees were and always will be more or less indefinite. But let us not mix up two things that are so easily kept separate, and which ought to be so kept. All experience proves that now and then...
...chairman then read other apologies for non-attendance, among which were letters from Presidents E. G. Robinson of Brown University, Julius H. Seeyle of Amherst, Franklin Carter of Williams, Chief Justice Morton, Hon. O. W. Holmes, Jr., John Fisk, Rev. Phillips Brooks, Senator Dawes, Senator Evarts and Hon. Chauncey M. Depew. In his letter of apology, Senator Dawes said: "I am filled with admiration of him [President Dwight] and the new field of work on which he enters with so much zeal and with such a common consent of alumni and the entire public. The future of the university must...