Word: regents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...theory our system is good - as here practised it is a partial failure. The executive power is vested in the usual officers, from president down to marshal. The legislative power is vested in a senate composed of twenty-one members. Every legislative act requires the signature of the regent to become a law. The judicial power is vested in a court presided over by a chief justice and two associates. There are also meetings of the general assembly. It reflects rather severely on this system, that if all the officers, save the marshal, the prosecuting attorney and the justices, were...
During the last week of last term the General Assembly resigned all powers of government and returned them to the regent and faculty. They refused to acknowledge the action of the assembly, the regent deciding it unconstitutional, upon technical grounds. And so the government still exists, - a hollow form supported by the officers of the university. A recent announcement of the president, calling a special meeting of the General Assembly, failed to bring together a quorum...