Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston. Members of the class and their wives and children will be the guests at luncheon of Robert H. Hallowell and Mrs. Hallowell. In the afternoon they will motor to Cambridge and inspect points of interest, after which there will be a service in Appleton Chapel conducted by the clergymen of the class. Later they will have tea with President and Mrs. Lowell...
...only ones laboring under this delusion is one of the conclusions to be drawn from statistics recently published concerning the correspondence courses in thirteen universities. Of the forty-thousand "going to college by mail", a large majority were far past youth. They ranged from young clerks to aged clergymen, from laborers in Chicago to successful engineers on the Arctic Circle; they-were studying dozens of widely different courses. When we consider that the University of Wisconsin alone enrolled over twenty thousand students in its mail courses, and the thirteen universities mentioned are only a few of the institutions offering such...
Further changes followed in 1780, when Massachusetts adopted a constitution, and subsequent acts of the Legislature provided for the eligibility of clergymen of different denominations for the Board. Then in 1865 the power to elect the Overseers was transferred to "all holders of A.B., A.M., or honorary degrees, voting in Cambridge on Commencement Day". In 1907 and 1916 the number of the Overseers was increased and the right to vote for these men was given to holders of all degrees of Harvard and its graduate schools. The new bill will make it possible for all graduates to vote...
...definitely selected in order that members of the School may have rooms and board at Standish Hall, without interfering with the occupation of this dormitory by students of the Harvard Summer School of Arts and Sciences during July and the early part of August, and also in order that clergymen whose vacations come in August may be able to attend without inconvenience...
...Board was formerly comprised ex officio of state officers and the Congregational clergymen in certain specified towns. It was later modified and enlarged; and in 1865 the power to elect the Overseers was transferred from the state legislature to the graduates. The Board exercises only confirmatory power over the Corporation, but reflects the opinion of the alumni...