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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Miller, Professor of Political Economy at Cornell, has resigned in order to accept a similar position at the university of Chicago. Professor Miller was formerly connected with Harvard...
...Austin Abbott, Dean of the New York University Law School spoke next. What can a people without land be, except lawless? In the Catholic Church, a man excommunicated is out of the community - almost literally. The Indians are in a similar state, they are excommunicated. It must follow that they are lawless and we cannot complain. We demand for the Indians an amenability to law and the right of appeal to law. The alternative...
...Russell, Edward L. Parris, Samuel H. Ordway, Lawrence E. Sexton and Amos T. French. In their report they estimated the annual income from the present membership of about 600 resident and non-resident members at $10,400. It was therefore recommended to purchase land and erect a club house similar in general arrangement to the Grolier Club, at a cost not to exceed $60,000. Half of this amount it is proposed to raise by subscription among the members as a gift to the club. Interest on the mortgage for the rest, $30,000, and the expenses necessary to maintain...
...about the same purpose. While the Wah Hoo Society is smaller in point of number and for that reason seemingly more select, yet the Hoodoos feel themselves, in the personnel of their club, in every way the equals of their rivals. The constitutions of the two clubs are very similar; there are three clauses in each, the first determining the names, the second setting forth the idea that they shall be perpetual in their existence, and the third prescribing that each shall fight to the death for the extermination of the other. In persuance of the last regulation there...
...conference of college presidents in Brooklyn under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. of that city. President Low of Columbia will preside, and it is expected that a core of colleges will be represented. Unfortunately President Eliot will not be present, he has a previous similar engagement in Boston on that day. Harvard will therefore be represented by Prof. Shaler. The object of the meeting is the discussion of the subject "Education and the colleges" and each speaker is expected to defile the attitude of the institution which he represents toward the educational problems with which...