Word: conference
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Woods will be in Brooks House Tuesday and Friday mornings from 10.30 to 11.30 to confer with men who wish to engage in some form of charitable work. Those who from lack of experience are unwilling to commit themselves to regular appointments, can get information regarding the character of the philanthropic work that is being done in Boston. Mr. Woods will be glad to suggest tours of investigation to the most interesting boys' clubs, workingmen's institutes, college settlements, public baths, play-grounds, gymnasiums...
...preserve the few traditional features still existing in undergraduate affairs. But as a matter of expediency, there certainly is fully as much justification for such a committee as for the existence of a "Photograph Committee." The election of a promenade committee would enable the Seniors, as a class, to confer recognition on three more of those classmates, whose prominence in the widening range of student activity which has accompanied the growth of the classes, fully merits such recognition...
...forming of the new council will not result in a transfer of powers from the corporation; for by the first of its functions it deals with matters over which no existing authority has power to deal, and the second and third points confer upon it deliberative rather than definite functions...
...University of Chicago faculty has decided to confer on Admiral Dewey the honorary degree of LL.D. This is the second honorary degree conferred by Chicago, the first having been given last fall to President McKinley...
Emperor William has recently authorized the German technical colleges to confer doctor's degrees. This action practically raises the technical colleges to the rank of universities...