Word: sponsor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scheme proposed was this-that the faculty should allow any club of students who should severally guarantee the club's honor and get a member of the faculty to be their sponsor, to have examinations without a proctor. This scheme, to my great surprise, found no one but its author to defend it. Men said that it would be hard to get many groups of a dozen or more men to go bail for each other's honors in this way; that certain groups of men might form such clubs for the express purpose of cheating; that a club honestly...
...hands of our immediate parent, Emmanuel College. Then again a few years later, when he welcomed the great immigration under John Winthrop, it was a child of Trinity that accepted the hermit's invitation, so that in this way, as it were, the great English University became sponsor at the founding of the New England Boston...
...fairly be said that the new Harvard Gymnasium has been the parent or sponsor of almost all of the modern college gymnasiums of the country. It is certain that scarcely and gymnasium has been newly fitted up, or any plan of physical culture adopted at any neighboring college, but that it has seemed necessary beforehand to inspect the building and methods of Harvard's Gymnasium, or to secure the advice or active cooperation of its well known director. The latest instance of this fact is Cornell, whose trustees are considering the question of making a thorough course of gymnastic instruction...