Word: charter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that he will be called to fill the place. President Robinson was graduated at Brown in 1838 and at Newton in 1842. He preached for a while in the South and was professor of Hebrew at Covington, Ky., in the theological seminary until the anti-slavery agitation changed the charter of the seminary. He then went to the Rochester Theological Seminary in 1853, and in 1872 he was elected president of Brown University, succeeding Dr. Alexis Caswell...
Professor Daniel C. Eaton of Yale University has presented to the Connecticut Legislature strong objections to the granting of a charter to a newly organized company in New Haven for the running of street cars by electricity conducted through overhead wires...
According to the charter, the office of the association is to be in Washington. The association is entitled to hold $500,000 worth of property for the purposes of the association, and is made a sort of an annex to the Smithsonian Institute, thereby being made a part and parcel of the National Government. Annual reports must be made to the secretary of the Smithsonian, who presents it, together with his own report, to the Government. The association is allowed to deposit its collections, manuscripts, books, pamphlets, and other materials for the study of American history...
...that the State of New York holds in trust the proceeds upon which the university was founded, and which were given by the nation to the state. If this is the case, the university is not absolute owner of the property, but merely a beneficiary, and the charter limit of $3, 000, 000 will admit of the reception of the McGraw bequest...
...president; F. S. Goodwin, '89, secretary, and T. S. Beecher, '90, treasurer. The executive committee is to consist of the president, vice-president, and three members from the club: R. D. Ware from '90, J. M. Howells from '91, and N. Littlefield from '92. Thirty-five men signed as charter members, and other members will be elected by the club. The executive committee are to draw up a constitution to be presented at the next meeting, and are also to engage rooms for the club. It was voted to have the next meeting announced in the CRIMSON...