Word: directors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the board of directors of the Harvard Co-operative Society, held on Tuesday evening, Mr. T. H. Cabot was elected on the board as a director from the freshman class...
...annual report of Prof. E. C. Pickering, director of the Harvard College Observatory, has just been made. The report is quite lengthy and gives complete details of the work done at the observatory during the year. The corps of assistants has been doubled, and nearly as many volumes of annals have been distributed as appeared during the previous thirty years of the history of the observatory. The accumulation of unreduced observations has been greatly diminished, and the eight quarto volumes required for the work still unpublished will be mainly occupied with material now almost ready for printing, except that part...
...American school similar to the French and German schools already existing in our city. We are happy to announce that statement has been realized, and that a third school of archaeology (that of the Americans) has already begun its work in Athens. The personnel of the school embraces the director, Mr. William Goodwin, and four regular pupils sent out by the colleges and universities co-operating in the support of the institution.... In addition to those already present others are expected, and with them the well-known Hellenist, Mr. Felton. All the members of the American school have already acquired...
...from Cornell, Union and the University of California, by whose acquisition a total sum of $3500 would be pledged for the annual expenses of the school for ten successive years. It was also reported that the good offices of the United States government had been obtained, and that the director would be made an attache of the bureau of education. While this is merely an honorary appointment, without any accompanying salary, it is, nevertheless, a great aid, as it places the American school on an equal footing with the French and German schools in Athens, which are governmental institutions...
...York city on Friday. This school, it will be remembered, was started by the Archaeological Institute of America. Ten colleges are interested in the movement, each subscribing $250 annually for its support. It was opened last month and Professor Goodwin of Harvard, as one of the directors, is now in charge of it. He obtained leave of absence for one year in order to assume charge of the school for that time. Next year a director from another college will take his place. It has been suggested that Yale will send a member of its faculty. Professor Goodwin's report...