Word: staff
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will follow, President Dwight delivering the final address. The exercises will be held in Center Church at 11 a.m., Thursday, July 1, and a reception to the new President will be held in the Art School at 1 o'clock. Presidents and members of other colleges, Governor Harrison and staff and city officials will be invited. W. M. Evarts will be unable to deliver the inaugural address...
Confusion in the board: The following liberal offer has been received from the Home Journal: "If you consider the Journal worthy the enclosed, or a similar notice, we should be pleased to have it, and shall be pleased to send the Journal regularly to the wives of your staff in reciprocation...
...evening, with students in their most ragged attire and with spectators. But erelong the sound of a drum was heard, and soon a procession appeared, at the head of which was a drum-major or grand marshal with a huge bearskin cap and baton, accompanied by assistants with craped staff and torches, and followed by two bass-drummers (students beating muffled drums); the elegist or chaplain, with his Oxford cap and black gown, and brows and cheeks crocked so as to appear as if wearing huge goggles; four spade-bearers; six pall bearers with a six foot coffin on their...
Great parade has been made of the increase in the teaching staff of Yale College. In 1873 there was 80, now there are 114 instructors - an increase of 42 1-2 per cent. At Harvard they have increased from 100 to 184, which nearly doubles Yale's percentage. Yale claims to have erected in fifteen years buildings costing $700,000. Harvard, between 1869 and 1881, used $2,307,305 for the same purpose. It is customary for Yale apologists to put forward many excuses for the college, which allege lack, not only of funds, but of any spirit among alumni...
...brought him into intimate association with General Lee, as well as other Southern leaders. His views, therefore, will be of something more than usual importance. The same can be said of the other lecturers. Col. Allen, who will give the second lecture, held an official position on Lee's staff. Since the war he has been the military correspondent of the New York Nation. The other lecturers will be the subject of future comment. We congratulate the Historical Society on the presentation of a course of lectures. which promises both qualification and instruction...