Word: creation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their choice for President, and that this canvass resulted in a majority of the votes for Edmunds. This is truly gratifying. The principal objection men seem to have now a-days to woman sufferage is that if women were empowered to vote they might disagree with the 'Iords of creation' in political matters as, it is said, they have a habit of doing in many others; but the way in which Wellesley supports the views of Harvard, as expressed by the canvass made by the Union a few weeks ago, shows plainly that these sweet girl graduates and students...
...Yale Boat Club has adopted several important amendments to its constitution making it more nearly resemble that of the Harvard Club. "Their effect," says the News, "must be to increase our chances for victory on the water. The creation of an executive committee, to consist of the captain, a graduate and the stroke, to have charge if the training and selecting of the university crew is a long stride in the right direction. It has long been felt by boating men that the Harvard system of retaining the services of graduate oarsmen by giving them a voice in the selection...
...chiefly devoted his leisure to "drawing" pupils who were too late for college chapel. The sight of a lady of his acquaintance in the streets had at all times been alarming enough to drive him into a shop or up a lane, and he had not survived the creation of the first batch of married fellows. How he had got into this thoroughly wrong paradise was a mystery which he made no attempt to explain. "A nice place this, eh?" he said to me; "nice gardens; remind me of Magdalen a good deal. It seems, however, to be decidedly rather...
...graduates of the colleges cooperating in its support, and to request you to bring these advantages to the notice of your students, some of whom from year to year will, it is hoped, avail themselves of them. The committee asks you, also, to urge upon your trustees the creation of travelling scholarships to facilitate attendance at the school of graduates of moderate means. To all classical students the school affords an opportunity to pursue their studies under competent direction among a people whose literary language is less different from that of Xenophon than his from that of Herodotus; to those...
Accordingly, a meeting was held at the University building, in the city of New York, on the 18th of October, 1881. Sixteen chapters were represented. It was resolved to recommend the creation of a National Council, for which a constitution was adopted, that was to go into effect upon ratification by twelve chapters. Furthermore, a committee was appointed to prepare a uniform constitution and form of initiation for the use of the several chapters. The minutes of this meeting, containing the text of the constitution in full, were, by the kindness of Mr. Justin Winsor, the secretary, published in Harvard...