Word: laws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...comes with peculiar force upon the chief magistrate of the city in which Harvard University is located, I am able to say that during my several terms of office it has been my pleasure, as well as my duty, to conform to so agreeable a feature of our fundamental law. The calls of the university, from time to time, relative to many matters conducive to the comfort and convenience of its officers and resident students, have ever been most cheerfully met by our municipality; seventy-one acres of valuable land in our very midst (not taxable, of course...
...Baldwin was elected treasurer. A change proposed by the directors providing for the election of a director from the university at large, in place of a director from the Divinity School, was ratified. The appointment of the following directors was confirmed: From the university at large, F. W. Taussig; Law School, Messrs. Cabot and Almy; sophomore class, F. S. Parker; freshman class, J. S. Russell. It was voted that the privileges of the society be extended to the members of the Episcopal Theological School and of the Institution for the Collegiate Instruction for Women, A change in the fiscal year...
President J. W. White having had to resign his position on account of too much else that took his attention, Professor Ames of the Law School was elected by the directors to fill the vacancy. About the first of January a scheme started by Prof. White was put in operation, a scheme by which the members of the faculty could obtain their groceries through the society. This brought a considerable number of the faculty in closer connection with the society, and their support is most welcome...
...prettiest and most dashing "woman," we learn from an exchange, at the New York French ball was a young law student and Harvard graduate, whose mother, a well-known figure in society, helped to dress...
...then sung by those assembled, Messrs. Joseph Shippen and James P. Kelley leading. Following this, the president called on Mr. George F. Harding on "The Times of '49." Mr. Harding referred to the improvements that had taken place since his younger days, principally to those in the higher law-improvements due in no small degree to men who had graduated from Harvard; and he hoped that present and future Harvard men would keep up the imperishable glories of the past...