Word: rockwood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...adjourned meeting of the board of overseers, President E. Rockwood Hoar in the chair, it was voted to concur with the president and fellows in appointing George Anthony Hill, A. M., instructor in engineering, and George William Sawin proctor. The election of William James, M. D., as professor of philosophy was presented and laid over under the rules. The petition of the students regarding attendance at college prayers, indorsed by the faculty, was referred to Messrs. Peabody, Brooks and Lowell. The committee on the quinquennial catalogue was requested to consider the subject of the official language of the university...
...Athletic Committee of the Princeton College faculty, consisting of Prof. Rockwood, Sloane, Scott, Osborne, and Young, held two meetings last Wednesday for the consideration of the resolutions offered at the Intercollege Convention in New York regarding college athletics. At the noon meeting representatives of the various branches of athletics in the college were entertained by the committee and permitted to state their opinions. The second meeting, at 5 o'clock, it was expected, would decide the attitude of the Princeton faculty towards the resolutions. Final action was not then taken, however...
...stated meeting of the board of overseers of Harvard College was held yesterday in Boston, Hon. E. Rockwood Hoar presiding, with Mr. E. W. Hooper acting as secretary, in place of Rev. Mr. McKenzie. It was voted to consent to the following appointments made by the president and fellows: Of S. M. McVane, A. B., to be assistant professor of history for five years from Sept. 1, 1883; of Ernest Young, Ph. D., to be assistant professor of history for five years from Sept. 1, 1883; of J. G. Crosswell, A. B., to be assistant professor of Greek and Latin...
...special meeting of the overseers of Harvard College was held at the treasurer's office, in Water street, Boston, yesterday, Hon. E. Rockwood Hoar presiding, when President Eliot of the college submitted the following votes...