Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hoped that this statement of the facts as they are will remove any prejudice that may have arisen against Williams on account of these charges, and will restore the good feeling which hitherto has always existed between the colleges...
...Eliot Norton, who replied in the negative, denied this statement of the preceding speaker. Blaine cannot be nominated. As the old proverb runs: "Them that holloas don't always get there." Mr. Blaine would go before the country as a defeated candidate, and he would have a divided party behind him. Those who have once become mugwumps never go back, and in 1888 it will be far easier to break party affiliations than ever before. If Blaine is nominated, the Republican party, except in name, will be at an end. (Applause...
...trustees; Rev. William H. Ward and Colonel Mason W. Tyler. Charles D. Adams presided. It was proposed to raise $50,000 to endow the professorship of physical culture in memory of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, which is now held by Dr. Edward Hitchcock. President Seelye gave a detailed statement of the financial condition of the college. He approved the plan of a Beecher memorial, and was of the opinion that if this fellowship was endowed, others would be in a short time. Amherst had one great drawback - that among her alumni there were not wealthy men, as there were...
...Every student who has been compelled by the present grouping of the courses to depart seriously from the scheme of college work he wished to follow, is requested to present a statement of the facts for the information of the Committee on the Tabular View. Communications may be left at the secretary's office, or may be forwarded...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: Your editorial of yesterday contains an error for which the learned author and the reviewer of Lawrie's "Rise and Early Constitution of Universities" are responsible. Your editorial approves of the statement that "until the fourteenth century there was no conscious founding of universities." This is an error; for thirteen of the twenty-six universities that existed in the year 1300 were consciously founded as studia generalia, the mediaeval conception of the modern university. Three of the eleven Italian universities that existed in the beginning of the fourteenth century were conscious foundations: Naples in 1224, Rome...