Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1875-1875
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...March, 1770, the Legislature again took possession of Harvard, and Governor Hutchinson issued writs calling another session there in May. The patience of the Corporation was, however, exhausted, and they addressed a formal remonstrance to the governor, but after some discussion yielded the use of the buildings. During all this, political influences were strongly felt at Harvard, and the members of the Corporation were almost unanimously devoted to the popular cause; yet the usual courtesies were shown to the loyalist governor. An indication of Harvard's opinions and spirit at this time is seen on the occasion...
...this it was stated that the Trustees had found themselves at the end of the means at their disposal, and to carry on the School it was proposed to charge a fee of fifty dollars. This circular was followed, early in May, by another, naming the length of the session for 1875, the departments of instruction, and the instructors and lecturers engaged. Before the issue of the April circular, containing notice of the School's attempt at self-support, there had been one hundred and sixty applications; this number immediately fell to seven paying applicants. A guaranty fund...
...numerous applications for this summer's session at Penikese have been so much reduced by the attempt to make the School partially self-supporting, that the Trustees are forced, in order to save the institution from debt, to close it for the coming season. Since no assistance is to be expected from the State Boards of Education, in the form of scholarships or otherwise, it becomes evident that the School must be carried on either by the help of the teachers for whose advantage it is intended, or by an endowment. The gift of Mr. Anderson, however generous, only sufficed...
...convention then went into secret session, which, I suppose, should not be published, further than that Harvard attempted, unsuccessfully, to obtain the adoption of coxswains. Our delegates also failed in getting Mr. Alexander Agassiz chosen Umpire. They thought that the selection of a graduate of a college and a gentleman in as high a position as Mr. Agassiz is would give a higher tone to the race; nevertheless they do not by any means doubt the ability of Mr. Watson, of Wilkes' Spirit of the Times, who was elected...
...Harvard School of Geology" will be opened on July 1, at Cumberland Gap, Tenn. The school will be under the management of Professor Shaler, and he intends to cover, during a session of nine weeks, about five thousand square miles of country. The classes will travel from the first camp at Cumberland Gap, through the region of the Upper Cumberland; small sections will branch off from the main line, with pack-mules, shelter-tents, etc., and explore the country in various directions; each section will be accompanied by an instructor who will deliver field lectures on the different beds...