Word: foundings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scheme proposed was this-that the faculty should allow any club of students who should severally guarantee the club's honor and get a member of the faculty to be their sponsor, to have examinations without a proctor. This scheme, to my great surprise, found no one but its author to defend it. Men said that it would be hard to get many groups of a dozen or more men to go bail for each other's honors in this way; that certain groups of men might form such clubs for the express purpose of cheating; that a club honestly...
...better plated sleeve button can be found than ours, which was made to order and is fully guaranteed...
...better plated sleeve button can be found than ours, which was made to order and is fully guaranteed...
...which were over $1000: George B. Dorr estate, $4785.89; Robert Treat Paine estate, $1500; Francis E. Parker estate, $91,504.99; Miss Anna C. Lowell, toward the fund for a botanic garden, $1000; Henry Gassett estate, for sustaining annual dinner of the class of 1834, $1000; Robert Treat Paine, to found the Robert Treat Paine fellowship of social science, $10,000; Uriah A. Boyden estate, $237,387.78; from an anonymous friend, per Mr. Agassiz, $2500; Henry Lee, $1500 for the salary of an instructor in political economy; Mrs. Henry Draper of New York, $4500 for prosecuting researches in stellar photography; Robert...
...found impossible to hold a meeting of the committee and to put the plan into operation until the beginning of the present college year, when Messrs. Brooks and Potter had left the University. The Base-Ball Association, the Foot-Ball Association, the Athletic Association, the Boat Club and the Tennis Association have accepted the plan under which this committee was chosen, and have presented their accounts for examination. They have also made estimates of their income and expenditure for the present year. This committee have to report on the accounts of these organizations in detail as follows...