Word: council
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...thinly shaven vocabulary, and Phidias, had he worked in wax, only a more inspired Mrs. Jarley. A man is known, says the proverb, by the company he keeps, and not only so, but made by it. Milton makes his fallen angels grow small to enter the infernal council room, but the soul, which God meant to be the spacious chamber where high thoughts and generous aspirations might commune together, shrinks and narrows itself to the measure of the meaner company that is wont to gather there, hatching conspiracies against our better selves. One is sometimes asked by young people...
...university council was thus made possible which should be representative of the whole body of educators in the university. This form of organization, with its representative university council and its many faculties, has abundantly justified all the hopes entertained for its success...
...President and Fellows in the following appointments: George Martin Lane, Ph. D., as Pope Professor of Latin, Emeritus, from September 1, 1894; Henry Lee, William S. Bigelow and Arthur A. Carey as Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts; Morris H. Morgan, Ph. D., as member of the council of the library for three years; Frank Irwin as Instructor in Mathematics for the remainder of the academic year; and George F. Newton as Instructor in Designing and Drawing in the Lawrence Scientific School for one year from next September. Professors F. J. Child, C. E. Norton, C. F. Dunbar...
...study of educational methods throughout the country has in recent years attracted a great deal of careful attention which now has taken very definite form. At a meeting of the National Council of Education in 1891, a committee, appointed at a previous meeting, reported through its chairman, Mr. James H. Baker, the principal of the Denver High School, on the uniformity of school programmes and the requirements for admission to college. The committee was continued and authorized to investigate the general subject of uniformity and to report to the National Council of Education in 1892. They made some specific recommendations...
...house is controlled by a council of which President William J. Tucker of Dartmouth is the chairman; but the active work is carried on by a number of resident members. The latter are college graduates, who intend to make a special study of the best methods of work among the lower classes. They are four in number this year, two Amherst men and two Harvard men, W. A. Clark ' 93, and H. G. Pearson...