Word: council
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...president, P. S. Abbot '90, treasurer, and L. D. Brandeis L. S. '77, secretary. The Hon. Richard Olney L. S. '58, was added to the list of vice-presidents, J. B. Warner '69, H. W. Putnam '69, and C. S. Rackeman L. S. '81, were chosen members of the council. The meeting voted by a small majority to instruct the council to preserve in their effort to secure for the alumni of the Law School the same right to vote for Overseers as is now enjoyed by graduates of the College. Sir Frederick Pollock and John H. Arnold, Librarian...
...annual meeting. The occasion will be specially noteworthy because it will mark the completion by Professor Christopher Columbus Langdell, the Dean of the Law School, of twenty-five years of service in that position. The association has made arrangements to observe the anniversary in a fitting manner, and the council has invited all the members to join in expressing their grateful recognition of the debt owed to Professor Langdell, not only by the Law School, but by the cause of legal education throughout the English-speaking world." The business meeting, for the election of officers and the transaction of such...
Yesterday morning Professor Ames announced that Harvard had made an agreement with Cornell, providing for contests during the next two years in football, baseball and rowing. The proposition originated with Harvard, and the Cornell athletic council voted Monday night to accept it. The terms of the agreement, as definitely as can be stated at present, are: Football - at Cambridge in 1895; at Ithaca in 1896. Baseball - at Ithaca in 1896; at Cambridge in 1897. Rowing - at New London (or such other place as may be agreed upon) between June 10 and June 30, both...
...With the present number, the Harvard Graduates' Magazine completes its third volume, and a word as to its future may be of interest. The Council of the Association decided at the beginning that, during the first few experimental years, while the Magazine was overcoming the initial inertia encountered by all new undertakings, while its necessary expenditures and its possible circle of subscribers were indefinite, the wisest policy from a business point of view was to make the subscription price one dollar, and to depend upon the treasury of the Association and upon voluntary effort for all additional needs. This decision...
...With the beginning of the fourth year of its existence, however, the members of the Council feel that this first experimental stage should soon end; that the Magazine is fast reaching the point where, now that the large preliminary expenses are decreasing, it easily can and rightly ought to be self-supporting; where it should no longer expect either money or services as gifts; but where it should make its subscription price sufficiently large to enable it to meet all ordinary running expenses. These can be satisfactorily met by doubling the present subscription price, provided all present subscribers...