Word: session
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...another column we give an account of the Overseers' meeting yesterday. It will be remembered that lately a committee was appointed to consider the religious interests of the college, and to make a report which should include the subject of chapel attendance. At the session yesterday, only a part of the report was presented, - a recommendation that the Plummer Professorship of Christian morals be filled at once. As is well known, this chair has been vacant since the resignation of Dr. Peabody a few years ago; and as the religious services of the university having no one whose special business...
...Conference Committee met yesterday afternoon and held a session from four to six o'clock, Prof. Palmer in the chair. Messrs. Palmer, James, Shaler, Wendell and Croswell, were the members of the faculty present. Students present were from '86, Messrs. Houghton, Huddleston, Merriam, R. D. Smith, and Vogel; from '87, Messrs. Furber and Peabody; from '88, Mr. Lund; and from '89, Messrs. Trafford and Keyes. Messrs. Lloyd, '86, Hallowell, '88, and P. S. Abbott, '89, were in attendance by invitation...
This can be done, first, by all classes of citizens uniting in choosing school boards of liberal character, who will see to it that nothing sectarian be admitted into the teaching of any branch or in any regulation, and secondly, by having only one session, closing at one o'clock, so that pupils may devote their afternoons to their catechism or to whatever their parents wish...
...with removals. That was an executive power, and the President had not transcended his authority in refusing documents about removals. The talk about Cleveland and Civil Service Reform has nothing whatever to do with the case. The President has offered documents if the Senate will consider them in open session. Cases were cited where Presidents have not submitted documents at the request of the Senate...
Harvard University School of Veterinary Medicine, Session 1887-87. - We esteem it a privilege and a pleasure to call the attention of all interested in the welfare and advancement of veterinary science to the announcement of the Harvard University School of Veterinary Medicine, Session 1886-87. This time honored institution of learning, whose fame is world-wide in all that relates to science and art, has, in connection with its Medical department, established a Veterinary School, presided over by a veterinarian of rare accomplishment, ripe judgment, and unlimited practical experience - qualifications that are exceptionally beneficial in directing the course...