Word: codman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...assurance given by Col. Codman of the board of overseers, at the dinner of the New York Harvard Club, that the corporation are not in favor of the present movement against the study of Greek apparently settles this momentous question for some time to come, since the speech seems to have been made with authority. As an experiment the proposed change could not have been viewed but with the greatest anxiety by all friends of the college. Its abordment for the present, at least, must be regarded with relief...
...speech of Col. Codman of the board of overseers was of the most importance. He spoke in part as follows...
...Harvard Club of New York gave its 18th annual dinner Thursday night at Delmonico's. Among those present were C. C. Beaman, who presided, Brayton Ives, John O. Sargent. Prof. George M. Lane, Charles R. Codman, of Boston, Chauncey M. Depew, Prof. N. S. Shaler, Dis.-Atty. Olney, Amos N. Fiske, Dr. Francis M. Weld, and U. S. Grant, Jr. In his opening address Mr. Beaman stated that the club started in 1865 with 65 members...
...last meeting of the Natural History Society the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, John Codman, '85; secretary, F. Winthrop White, '85; treasurer, G. C. Craigin...
...Halbert, '85, from the floor, declared for non-interference and said the whole tendency of the college administration was away from the theory of paternal government. Mr. John Codman, '85, defended the Harvard eleven from the charge of the affirmative that they had gone to Princeton with blood-thirsty intentions. The only violent talk comes from a few men not on the eleven nor truly in sympathy with it. Mr. C. R. Saunders, '84, pointed out the essential difference between civil and faculty government in the simile brought up by he negative. The faculty were not trying to hamper legitimate...