Word: state
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...College was transferred from the representatives of the Commonwealth to those of the alumni, merely provides a "mode of filling places and vacancies," and that the section of the Act of 1851 by which the Board was empowered to fill vacancies, whether caused "by death, resignation, removal from the State, or otherwise," still remained in force...
From these conclusions the Harvard Club most decidedly dissents, and maintains, on the other hand, that there is no legal prohibition to prevent any graduate, in whatever State he claims a home, from becoming an Overseer. Furthermore, that since, of the thirty Overseers, some twenty live within sight of the State House in Boston, the obvious tendency of the Board in future is to the character of a close corporation, whereas it was clearly the design of the Act of 1865 to withdraw the College entirely from connection with the State and from local opinion...
...this critical state of affairs, our worthy Secretary loses patience, and exclaims, "Well, well, well, well, don't stand there all day quarrelling about it." (Fact...
...willing to work. I see you are not anxious to profit by your history. Very well, sir, if you do write the thesis it won't add anything to your mark. If you don't, I shall take off twenty per cent. I mark according to the state of a man's health, the size of his head, and my general idea of the time he goes to bed. I give the highest mark to the man who gets worst used up by the course. You are looking altogether too well, and unless you become excessively pale...
BICYCLING.It is earnestly to be hoped that the report of the forming of a University Bicycle Club was not all rumor. On Fast Day the Massachusetts, Boston, and Suffolk Clubs unite in a "meet," to which they invite all bicyclists in the State. The rendezvous will be at Trinity Church, and the hour 10 o'clock. The unattached riders will be taken under the escort of sub-captains from the three clubs, that there may be no delay or confusion. After circling the square once, the riders will proceed over the Milldam to Chestnut Hill, and after reaching that point...