Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...difficult to give an accurate statement of the religious condition of Harvard University. Perhaps the recent account of the matter, which makes Harvard's religious condition about that of the world outside, is nearly correct. The faculty includes men of every shade of belief from the Agnostic and Pantheist to the Methodist and Baptist. And nearly the same thing might be said of the students, though I should be inclined to give credit to the report which represents the number of students from evangelical homes as continually increasing. The connection between teachers and students is much less close than...
Ezra Cornell described his plan in these words : "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study," a statement certainly broad enough to embrace the female sex. Accordingly, President White, in 1872, admitted the first young woman who presented herself with a State certificate, without discussing the metaphysical question as to whether she was a "person" and so came within the limits of the charter...
...which amounted to an endorsement, have drawn forth an indignant rejoinder from Prof. J. E. Oliver, the distinguished mathematician. It was insinuated in uncomplimentary terms, by the correspondent referred to, that the Cornell faculty was subjected to humiliating tyranny by President White. Professor Oliver is personally responsible for the statement that "the president would be the very last man to seek to impose his wishes as law upon his colleagues as against their own judgments and that, in point of fact, the responsibility for those innovations which have most grieved the Era and its disinterested exchanges rests upon the faculty...
...recommend to our readers a careful examination of the statement of the president of the dining room association, which appeared in our yesterday's issue. The subject is one attended with some obscurity and is worthy of careful study on the part of the members of the association...
Sever 11 was fairly well filled last evening on the occasion of the first public meeting of the Harvard Total Abstinence League to listen to addresses by Rev. E. E. Hale and Ex-Gov. Long. The speakers were introduced by President Cummings who gave a brief statement of the purpose and prospects of the society...