Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year: Pres. W. R. Thayer, '81; Vice-Pres., J. G. Thorp, L. S.; Sec., I. Panin, '82; Treas. C. G. Washburn, '80. Committee, F. Warren, '82, G. C. Van Benthuysen, '82. April 15th was decided upon for the next debate, the subject of which is : Resolved, That a third term, on general principles, is advisable. Affirmative, Evarts, '81. Washburn, '82; Negative, Ivy, '81, Firman...
...change and emendation. The next innovator was Politico, an Italian. This philosopher was an Animist, that is to say, he was full of life. He first introduced the name of the Regulative Faculty. By Anaxagoras, the same thing was called ???, Reason. But aside from being a vague and ambiguous term, Politico, the acutest of his contemporaries, saw that calling this Faculty Reason involved a contradiction of ter???, since Reason could scarcely ever be said to have any influence over its action. Hence he appropriately dubbed it the Regulative Faculty...
GENTLEMEN,- It is with pain that I am obliged to refuse your invitation. I am anxious to avoid the appearance of making a bid for a third term, and therefore I have not appeared in public for the past two years...
...longed-for third term...
...PEABODY defended Harvard at the Williams Alumni dinner in Boston. In reply to a remark that after the Freshman year there was no discipline at Harvard, Dr. Peabody said that in a prehistoric term he had been a tutor at Harvard, and that then, with about 200 students under them, the Faculty spent the greater part of their time in administering penal discipline. Now, with the number of students largely increased, such a case of discipline happens not once in three months. He was happy to say that the student is no longer a savage, but a civilized being...