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...rumored that base-ball and foot-ball are to be abolished at St. Paul's School by the rector, Dr. Coit, leaving cricket as the school game.- Yale News...
PHILLIPS BROOKS. Rector of Trinity Church, Boston...
...following preachers will occupy the Chapel pulpit for the rest of the year: May 8, Rev. W. L. Rainsford, rector of St. George's Church, New York; May 15, Rev. W. J. Tucker of Andover; May 22 and 29, Rev. Phillips Brooks. June 5 and 12, Rev. Alexander McKenzie; June 19, Baccalaureate sermon, Rev. F. G. Peabody...
...constitution of any university depends entirely on the proportionate use of two factors: the powers in the hands of the faculties as such, and the powers entrusted to a rector, or as we say, president. The faculty system is from Paris, that of the rector from Bologna. The constitution of Harvard University is only seemingly anomolous since the overseers exercise the power which in Europe is exercised by the faculties or teachers in convocation. The Corporation of Harvard College, although only designed to copy the body found in the English colleges under the university in power is the Bolognese student...
There were no university lecture-rooms, no colleges of any kind; these, together with a fixed tuition fee, are later improvements to universities. The students paid their tuition fees to the professors, and absolutely forebade any "cutting" on their part without previous permission from the rector of the students. The students had the power to compel townsmen to let buildings to them at terms fixed by students and townsmen. This blessing is great, but greater still from the "sign-ragging" standpoint. Students were judged by the university court...