Word: presentments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...honors and degrees, if any, and if the man has married, when, where, and to whom, number of children and their names. In the account of his career after leaving college, mention is made of any literary work he may have done, the extent of his travels and his present address...
...Divinity School had also an increased number of students. In its curriculum, there are at present nine courses which are accepted by the college faculty from candidates for the degree of A. B. It is a significant fact that more beneficiary money has been refunded by graduates of this department than by those of any other...
...Veterinary School is at present non-supporting and needs an endowment for the maintenance of its hospital. There was a deficit on its books last year...
...Library added 16,468 volumes-the largest number on record. Laboratory and class-room libraries, also, were increased in number to ten, six of which were opened till ten o'clock in the evening. The President calls attention in view of the rapidly increasing number of books and the present state of the reading room, to the growing needs of the library, and strongly urges that Gore Hall be given over to stacks and a new reading-room be built fitted with electric lights so that students may use reference books in the evening. For this purpose, however, the available...
...Charles Francis Adams, formerly president of the Massachusetts Railroad Commission, and now president of the Union Pacific Railroad, delivered an informal speech, which we regret that we are unable to give in full. Questions were asked by various members of the club upon important events of the present time, and were answered with the greatest good nature. Mr. Adams is a delightful speaker, and the opportunity of hearing him was thoroughly appreciated by all present. It is to be regretted that more students did not have this privilege, and it is to be hoped that the faculty will invite...