Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Time went on, and Harvardium jealously observed the increasing power and importance of her sister cities. At last, the body of learned men, called the Facultas, revoked the obnoxious requisite for citizenship, and reports came from distant lands that large numbers of people were flocking to Harvardium, to take advantage of the culture and facilities of the place. Now it happened that the members of the Facultas received very meagre salaries for their arduous and valuable services, while the Board consisted of men who were either very wealthy, or lived on fame-a kind of ambrosial fruit, which was said...
...students on the committee were expected to be perfectly free to express their opinions in all discussions. The faculty hoping to thus obtain a better understanding of the views of the students, and a better means of communication with them. The committee was given none but advisory powers, but its suggestions were influential in the conference and the questions were settled in a manner entirely satisfactory to both sides. As this plan had worked so well, it was thought best to make the committee permanent, giving it as before only power to advise...
...duty of the president to pass sentence according to the verdict, but, if the student can show good cause, he may lower the grade of the offense or remit the penalty entirely. "But," though the president has this pardoning power, "he cannot in any case impose a heavier penalty than that of the grade fixed by the jury...
...grade in which the jury have placed the offense. unless there be such mitigating circumstances as to induce him to lower it, but in no case can he impose a heavier penalty than that of the grade fixed by the jury. It is thus seen that the power of the Jury is greater than that of the Senate, whose doeress can be vetoed by the President, and also than that of our proposed Conference Committee whose resolutions are to be adopted or rejected by a vote of the Faculty. The remarkable success of this attempt at government of students...
...light-almost dilettantic-paper, and a newspaper; and the change in the character of our periodicals does not seem to have proved beneficial to the literary training of contributors. The contributor to the magazine was put upon his metal to write the best essay or criticism in his power. It was in work of this kind that such men as Edward Everett, Cornelius C. Felton, J. O. Sargeaut, James Russell Lowell, Rufus King. James Freeman Clark, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and others were trained...