Word: establishment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...thoughtless be more thoughful of others, and the over-sensitive less so. As to clubs, my experience has shown me that there are just as refined, manly men outside of clubs as in them, and in one club as another; such organizations could use their influence as well to establish and maintain an esprit du corps of all the students as to gain advatage exclusively for themselves...
...will of Professor Harold Whiting, of Cambridge gives $20,000 to the University to establish a fellowship in physics, and to be known as the William Whiting fellowship, in honor of the testator's father. The Regents of the University of California receive $20,000, the income to be used for the benefit of the physical department, and to be known as the Whiting fund...
...such officers of the college as they may desire, and also members of their own and other classes. A cordial invitation is extended to all members of the University to be present. Refreshments will be served and the occasion gives one of the few opportunities of the year to establish the fraternity of Harvard...
...were in need of such aid. Heretofore there has been no such distinction as a scholarship for a man whowas not in need of money. At the close of the last college year, however, it was voted by the Faculty and confirmed by vote of the Corporation to establish purely honorary scholarships, open as honors to men who do not need financial help. They are called the John Harvard Scholarships Juniors and Sophomores who may be considered "worthy of very high academic distinetion." They will be conferred as a matter of course, without application...
...lands not so settled to be given up; ibid.- (d) They have introduced hare-brained measures and class legislation into Congress: Index to Congressional Record, 52d and 53d Congresses.- i. e. (1) To prevent dealings in options and futures and the founding of trusts and combines.- (2) To establish a uniform rate of interest in the United States, and to prohibit usury.- (3) To prohibit the coinage of gold.- (4) To give labor to the unemployed by immense public works...