Word: wesleyanism
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Munsell, President of the Illinois Wesleyan University, has been up before the trustees on a charge of a new kind of "lip-service," and has resigned in accordance with a strong hint. What the charge against the playful divine was can be inferred from the report of the trustees, who "regarded the course of Dr. Munsell, in kissing different young ladies, as unwise and very improper, and that his position, as president, heightened this folly and impropriety; but, as it was always done in the presence of third parties, there could have been no improper intent." We have always disapproved...
...Oakes; Williams, - J. Gunster, T. W. Saunders; Bowdoin, - A. J. Boardman; Trinity, - G. B. Underhill, J. D. McKennon; Cornell, - E. S. Moses, J. B. Edgerly; Brown, - A. D. McClellan, E. L. Bogart; Amherst, - E. M. Hartwell, F. W. Whitridge; Massachusetts Agricultural College, - F. C. Eldred, E. B. Alexander; Wesleyan, - H. H. Coston, O. L. Livesley...
...Columbia by S. Tenney and A. B. Symonds. Next followed the election of officers, and this showed signs of a little previous manipulation. The chair was empowered - Harvard alone dissenting - to select a committee on nominations, and accordingly named Mr. H. A. Oakes, Yale, chairman; Mr. H. H. Coston, Wesleyan, and Mr. J. D. McClellan, Brown...
...Dana, Harvard; H. A. Oakes, Yale; E. M. Hartwell, Amherst; E. P. Alexander, Massachusetts Agricultural; John Gunster, Williams; F. A. Waterhouse, Bowdoin; G. B. Underhill, Trinity; A. D. McClellan, Brown; H. H. Coston, Wesleyan; F. A. Thayer, Dartmouth; G. M. Spear, Columbia; J. B. Edgerly, Cornell; Josh Ward (proposed, but rejected), Williams...