Word: establish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proctors for the current academic year; W. Schofield, LL. B., instructor in torts for the ensuing academic year; J. B. Warner, LL.B., lecturer on constitutional law for the year 1886-87; F. W. Taussig, Ph.D. assistant professor in political economy from Sept. 1, 1886; also, in their votes to establish a Peabody professorship of American archaeology and ethnology in the university...
...that the fact that such resolutions have been passed by a representative student body will call general attention to the subject, and rouse discussion upon it. For it is only by discussion and agitation that the students can be brought to see the true nature of the evil, and establish a public opinion which will condemn...
There is but one worthy reason why prayers as at present conducted should be opposed; they are not prayers. There is but one thing essential to their being defensible; that they become prayers. If the men who established them had been told - "These prayers will be a mere roll-call, a practice kept up for fear of losing money; the students will not listen; they will not pray; the office of conducting them will go a begging; the singing will be a contrivance; the whole will be an anomaly, a source of ill feeling and disunion," we are constrained...
...University of Penn. A. A. have a scheme on foot to establish a State Inter-collegiate Spring Athletic Meeting. Johns Hopkins and the Naval Academy at Annapolis may be invited to join...
...bright reply from Judge Wilbur F. Stone, to the effect that most of the statesmen and men of affairs had come from interior colleges. Other speeches taking up the general line of thought that men equipped with a college education could wield great influence in the new West and establish here an ideal empire which combined all the best of the older States, were made by the various speakers who followed...