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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is talk of founding a heavily endowed university at Milwaukee, the majority of whose directors, and probably its presiding officer, to be of the Baptist church...
...must not thin here of freedom of teaching in the modern sense. The majority was usually very intolerant of divergent opinions. Not unfrequently the adherents of the minority were compelled to quit the university in a body. This was not restricted to those cases in which the church intermeddled, and where political or metaphysical propositions were in question. Even the medical faculties-that of Paris, the most celebrated of all at the head-allowed no divergence from that which they regarded as the teaching of Hippocrates. Any one who used the medicines of the Arabians or who believed...
...English for the retention of existing rights, had excluded almost all change, even in directions in which such change was urgently required. Until of late both universities had in great measure retained their character as schools for the clergy, formerly of the Roman and now of the Anglican church, whose instruction laymen might also share in so far as it could serve the general education of the mind; they were subjected to such a control and mode of life as was formerly considered to be good for young priests. They lived, as they still live, in college, under the superintendence...
...Peabody, who was formerly and for many years pastor of the Unitarian church in Portsmouth, N. H., is to occupy that pulpit the first Sunday in November, the occasion being commemorative of the fiftieth anniversary Sunday of his settlement over that society...
...meeting of the board of overseers yesterday, the board voted to concur with the president and fellows in appointing Alfred Church Lane, A. B., instructor in mathematics, and John Downer Pennock, A. B., Charles Pomery Worcester, A> B., Edward Southworth Hawes, A. M., Charles Austin Hobbs, A. B., and Frederick Silas Gregory Reed, A. B., proctors, all for the ensuing academic year...