Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...concur with the votes of the president and fellows in appointing among a number of others Freeman Snow, Ph. D., instructor in forensics for the ensuing academic year; Josiah Royce, Ph. D., instructor in philosophy for the ensuing academic year; Charles Edward Faxon, LL. B., instructor in botany; Manuel Jacob Drennan, A. M., assistant professor of English for five years from September 1, 1883, and in electing William A. Keener assistant professor of law in the Law School...
Says the Tech, in relation to Dr. Jacob Bigelow, a graduate of Harvard and one of the founders of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "His college life offered him opportunities of which he made the most. During the four years of Harvard he joined nearly all the clubs and societies existing at that time. Of these he says: 'I was enrolled among the members of different, and sometimes opposite, institutions - a Theological Society, which was very good, and a Porcellian Club . . . . ; a Phi Beta Kappa Society, intended to be composed of the best scholars, and a "Navy" Club, which...
...Jacob Sleeper, who is the donor of its new buildings to the Boston University, was formerly an overseer of Harvard...
...friend of Boston University has recently offered to be one of ten to add $500,000 to the endowment, or to give one-tenth of the sum, however raised. The new Jacob Sleeper Hall of Boston University will be occupied by the College of Liberal Arts after the Thanks - giving recess...
...with the president and fellows in the changes regarding degrees; also, in appointing Josiah Royce instructor in philosophy for the current year. The vote of the president and fellows to establish a professorship of veterinary medicine, was laid on the table for future consideration, and the appointment of Henry Jacob Bigelow, M. D., emeritus professor of surgery, in consideration of his many valuable services to the medical school during the past 33 years, was referred to Messrs. Hodges, Parker and R. M. Morse. A vote to confer several honorary degrees was passed in concurrence...