Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that his administration will result in placing Yale on a more radical basis. We welcome this new proof of the wisdom of the policy of Harvard. We trust that the work of President Dwight will demonstrate that reform in college work is necessary and practicable. The long and honorable term of office which President Porter has filled, marks an era in the growth of Yale, both materially and in influence. But if the times demand methods which are not those of Dr. Porter, it is surely the wisest plan for the welfare of the college that a gentleman should...
...trustees have recently drawn up a series of regulations in regard to the John Tyndall Fellowship. The Fellow who is to be appointed on the recommendation of the president and the professors in the Scientific Department, must pursue a course of study and research in experimental physics for the term of one year. The first incumbent is Michael Pussin, who graduated at Columbia in 1883 with honors...
...more physical seminars will be held this term...
...little or nothing of some of the candidates, or of their views on matters affecting the university, and desiring to exercise their franchise for the best interests of the university, they ask for information in regard to certain important questions. Of the fifteen candidates for the full six-year term, all but three sent replies; of the three candidates for the five-year term vacancy all but one replied; of the three candidates for the one-year term vacancy, all but one sent an answer, and of the three outgoing overseers only one made reply...
...very short vacation has come to a close, and with to-day a term begins, that is perhaps the most interesting and active of the entire academic year. With tennis, boating, base-ball, lacrosse and cricket to occupy time, attention and money, to say nothing of the minor things that necessarily present themselves at the approach of annual examinations and the close of a college year, the student at Cambridge lives a very busy life from April to June. That during the present term his life is also to be specially interesting is not to be doubted. He watches...