Word: governors
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Yale has one governing board known as the Corporation, consisting of the President and seventeen Fellows, including the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, who are Fellows ex officio. Of the other fifteen, six are elected by the graduates for terms of six years; nine hold office without limit of tenure, and vacancies in their number are filled by the Corporation...
...Governors are fifteen in number. In them are vested the management of finances, the passing of University statutes and ordinances, the appointment of professors and other important duties. Vacancies in their number are filled by the remaining members with the approval of the Visitor, whose functions are exercised by the Governor-General of Canada, ex-officio, as representative of the Crown, in which the supreme authority of the University is vested. The President of the Board of Governors is ex-officio Chancellor of the University...
...bill in regard to the franchise in electing Overseers of the University, which was signed by Governor Crane on March 27, becomes a law today as far as the Massachusetts Legislature is concerned, a provision having been attached stating that thirty days must have elapsed after the Governor had signed the bill before it could become a law. Before this act shall be in force, however, it is provided that the Board of Overseers and the Corporation of the University, at separate meetings held for that purpose, shall by vote assent to the same. The governing boards will probably vote...
Professor Agassiz, with Dr. W. McM. Woodworth, his son, and H. B. Bigelow as assistants, started last October on an expedition to study the coral structure of the Maldive Islands, off the south coast of Ceylon. When the party reached England, Mr. Chamberlain gave Professor Agassiz letters to the Governor of Ceylon, and the governor, Sir West Ridgeway, gave him letters to the Sultan of the Maldives. In this way every facility possible for their investigations was assured...
...bill in regard to the franchise in electing Overseers, which both Houses of the Massachusetts Legislature have passed, has been signed by Governor Crane and will become a law after thirty days, if accepted by the Overseers and Corporation of the University...