Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...promised a graduate's diploma at the end of one year's study. The faculty declined to carry out the pledge, and offer in defence the evidence that an individual member of the corps of teachers made the promise, and furthermore that the agreement for this brief term of study was not in accordance with the regulations of the State board of health. The question at once arises how long a doctor who would offer a diploma for twelve months' study of medicine will be permitted to serve as an instructor in a medical college...
...unconfirmed report prevailed in Washington yesterday that Senator Windom would be offered the Treasury portfolio in President Arthur's Cabinet upon the expiration of his term in the Senate...
...Yale man, who was a guest at Memorial one day last term, when he heard of the many complaints against the fare, declared that it was fully as good as Yale students got at New Haven. "In either case," he said, "the meat could be chewed, and the bottom of a cup of the rather weak coffee was not actually visible to the naked...
...following item from the Yale News needs no comment: "At the end of last term two members of '85, bent upon a night's work at compositions, desiring something in the way of stimulants, provided themselves with two bottles of ginger ale. They were found naturally in a well-nigh exhausted state the following morning...
...general term of the Supreme Court of New York has rendered an important decision establishing the responsibility of railroad companies as public servants...