Word: council
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the council of the Archaeological Institute of America, recently held in New York, was an occasion of especial interest for Harvard men. The institute was founded in 1879 by Professor Norton, who was made its first president and held that office with great distinction until 1890. He was followed in the presidency by President Low, of Columbia, who was compelled by the press of his official duties to resign the office in January of the present year. His successor is Professor J. W. White. Of the twelve men who signed the call issued in 1879, ten were Harvard...
...institute and the two schools have an income that varies from $20,000 to $25,000 a year. The institute is governed by a council which, until recently, consisted solely of members elected annually by affiliated societies established in eleven different cities of the United State. The council has had twenty-two members, seven of whom were Harvard men; but at its last meeting its membership was doubled by the addition of ex-officio members. The intention of this change is to give greater permanence to the membership of the council and thus to secure greater continuity in its work...
...Shattuck was for many years one of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University, and was also a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 1862 he was a member of the Boston common council...
ITHACA, N. Y., February 17.- This afternoon Captain Goodrich communicated to the Cornell Athletic Council a request that Yale be admitted to the Harvard-Cornell race on the Hudson...
Commodore Murdock of the Cornell Navy, Captain Spillman of the crew, and Professor Wheeler of Cornell expressed their approval of such action, and the Council voted unanimously to admit Yale...