Word: william
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...discussion has not been all on one side. As eminent men as Professor William Knight, H. A. Perry, and H. T. Humphrey have vigorously opposed the movement against the competitive system of examinations. However, an effort will be made by the signers of the protest to bring the matter to the attention of the Queen in order that a royal commission may be appointed to investigate the competitive system thoroughly, and consider modes of examinations which will do away with the present evils...
...vesper service yesterday afternoon was opened with the hymn by the choir "Hark! hark the organ. Dr. McKenzie offered a prayer, after which the choir sang the anthem "A bide with us," by Whitney. The address was made by Rev. William Lawrence. The speaker read from the Bible the account of Peter's attempt to persuade his Master not to go to Jerusalem and of Christ's answer to the tempter. Peter, the speaker said, had been the first to realize the meaning of the Saviour's mission, but when the time came for self-denial and for action...
...before making comparisons a few words may be said as to who was in Yale at that time. Charles J. Russ, of Hartford, was in the law school, and at the academic department from Hartford were Henry Smith and Thomas A. Thacher, seniors; Henry w. Bacon, P. W. Elsworth, William D. Ely, Austin Isham and Albert Todd, jumors; Charles Buck, Aaron L. Chapin, Thomas M. Day, Thomas Dutton, John Cotton Mather, John P. Putnam, Luther Scarborough, John W. Seymour and Edmund Terry, sophomores; and Charles F. Smith, freshman. Other 'boys' who were then in college were Chief Justice Waite, Senator...
...received as endowments during 1887-88 $250,000 for a dormitory from the estate of Walter Hastings; about $170,000 for the furtherance of history, political science, and literature, from the will of Ellen Gurney; and two wholly unrestricted gifts $22,000 from John Cowdin and $30,000 from William Perkins. In addition to these, H. R. A. Carey, Sp. '89, gave $25,000 for the building of five courts particularly for the use of the base-ball nine; and the class of 1856 $6,000 as a permanent fund for the publication in serial form of undergraduate and graduate...
...hope to send out a section of it every two months thereafter, and thus to complete it within two years, the entire work making six volumes with about 6,500 pages. For seven years the labor on this important work has gone forward under the direction of Professor William D. Whitney, of Yale, who has been the editor in chief of the enterprise, and for the past two years the printers have been engaged in typesetting in order that the actual time of publication might not extend over too long a period...