Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...society. An annual meeting of all the members is held on the third Tuesday of February, and the president, secretary and treasurer are then ballotted for, and all vacancies in the board of directors are filled by ballot. The superintendent is appointed by the directors for a fixed term and at a fixed salary, which for the coming year will be upwards of a thousand dollars. The total expenses of the society for the year are very small in comparison with the amount of business transacted. The leading items being the salary of the superintendent, rent of store, express bill...
Messrs. S. A. Green, C. F. Adams, Jr., W. G. Russell, Leverett Saltonstall and Moorfield Story were elected overseers for the term of six years; Messrs. F. M. Weld and Solomon Lincoln for the term of one year...
During the latter part of the spring term a project was set on foot looking towards the compiling and publishing of a Harvard song book. When first started the suggestion was received with universal favor and a committee was appointed with full power to undertake and carry out the work. The committee immediately met and considered plans. Invitations were sent out requesting original contributions of either verses or music from members of the university. It was found, however, that there would not be sufficient time before the close of the term for the committee to perfect its plans and finish...
...daily paper will be published at Dartmouth College during the remainder of the term, the editors being A. A. Maxwell of South Berwick, Me.; A. E. Watson of Hartford, Vt.; A. P. Greeley of Concord, and Benjamin Phillips of Lynn, Mass., all of the senior class...
...tutor - for at this time there were no professors - to a seat in the corporation was early discussed, and at one time allowed by the legislature. An eventful controversy arose in 1824, upon a demand of all the instructors to representation in the governing board, who claimed that the term 'fellow' in its historic sense conferred the right to participate in the determination and decision of all university matters. Edward Everett and Professors Ticknor and Norton advocated with great earnestness and ability the right of all members of the faculty to seats in the governing board, while the legal members...