Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most honorable of the college Greek-letter societies. Established in 1832, it celebrated its semi-centennial last year. It is established in about twenty of the leading colleges of the country, and numbers among its members who take an active part in the society, some of the most prominent clergymen, lawyers, professors, journalists, and other professional men in the country. The annual dinners attract large numbers of members, of whom there are more than one hundred and fifty residing in Boston, and more than five hundred in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...Harvard College became a body corporate, enjoying the right of administering the funds and making all rules for the government of the college, as well as of electing their successors in office. The former board of overseers was retained, embracing the governor, the deputy governor, and the leading clergymen and magistrates of the adjoining towns. This double organization was designed to perpetuate in the government of the college the close relation of church and State to all educational institutions. The overseers had been the sole governing board, but, as constituted, it was not found equal to the functions which devolved...
...this body of seven members the title of the property was vested. The overseers were a more numerous body, and possessed the right of ratification and amendment. The occasion of this double organization will be found in the early form of colonial society. Two classes were prominent, the clergymen, the single learned class, and the civil rulers, who were alike highly honored. To these two classes, the only ones available the oversight of our educational institutions was entrusted...
...Maclean as the college historian. No graduate of Princeton before 1812 is still living. Of the graduates between 1812 and 1820 forty-four are living. The total number of Princeton graduates is 5,439, and of these 3,000 are living. One fifth of the whole number have been clergymen, one-twelfth physicians and only one-eighteenth have entered public life. The mortality has been greatest among the politicians and least among the clergy. A hundred and eighty-nine have become presidents or professors in colleges - no fewer than thirty-two of whom have taken service with their Alma Mater...
...list of clergymen who have officiated in the chapel during the year includes an unusually large number of names of distinguished +++. This means of education, which is, I be +++ culiar to Cornell, has been appreciated +++ dents, if the large attendance may be +++ conclusive evidence...