Word: establishment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...class now in college has presented at the first call more than sixty-five candidates for its freshman eleven. It is for ninety-eight to establish a new record in that respect...
...first session of the International Athletic Congress occurred at the Sorbonne, Paris, last Saturday afternoon. Baron de Courcel, who presided, outlined the purposes of the congress and stated that he hoped the delegates would endeavor to establish international athletic championships. Nearly three thousand persons were present, among them being Professor Sloane of Princeton...
...effort is being made by the senior class at Michigan to establish a fellowship with a principal...
...words of Professor Richet "the alliance will establish between the members of the divers universities, professors or students, a union founded upon relations more frequent and consequently more cordial. It will attenuate the differences in scholarship, by securing a certain equivalence or equality of studies, and level the obstacles which now confine the students within their respective countries. This is so much more necessary since, despite the present facilities of roads and telegraph, universities are now less connected than they were in the thirteenth century, when it took months to travel between the universities of Paris and of Bologna...
Leaving out of consideration those scholarships by the terms of which certain individuals are given preference, the scholarships are today awarded in this wise. All applicants must first establish their need for money; then scholarships are assigned to them according to rank. That is to say, the question of need is made the basis for forming a general group, and the the group is subdivided minutely on the question of future usefulness. This is manifestly absurd. Future usefulness, since it is so largely an unknown quantity, may be taken as a basis for a general group, but nothing more. Needs...