Word: establishment
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...HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 7. - The committee in charge of the George William Curtis memorial fund have decided to establish a revolving lectureship, the incumbent of which shall deliver lectures in Yale, Harvard, Columbia and perhaps Amherst and Brown Colleges. The following Yale professors have charge of the fund at Yale. Weir, Bishop and Henry Farnam. The holder of the lectureship will select for his theme a civic subject, similar in scope to the questions to which Mr. Curtis devoted his life work...
...bill has been introduced in the Massachusetts Legislature to establish a university in the City of Boston for the gratuitous instruction of its inhabitants. The bill provides that the university begin work on January 1, 1896; and also that there be no discrimination on account of religious faith in the appointment of professors and instructors...
...have asked the advice of a number of representative college men, showing that no step will be taken which is not likely to meet the approval of all college men. It is plainly not the desire of these members of the Faculty to control the conferences, but simply to establish them and then trust to student control...
...Annexation is inexpedient. - (a) Bad effect on our social and political institutions. - (1) Uncongenial population. - (2) Unfit for citizenship. - (3) Serious problems involved. - (b) Hawaii would always be colonial, (c) Annexation would establish dangerous precedent...
Various elements enter in to form the belief in immortality. The ancient writers thought that the dream supplied the first germ of life to faith, but the duration of this life was limited. Other things were needed to strengthen and establish belief. The most important element which helped to accomplish this was that of feeling; the dread of death, and the yearning for loved dead. Then the element of desire, whether for the individual or for others had wide influence. In its rude form this element was undoubtedly connected with the thought of self. The deep seated longing for after...