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...sanction of the league has been received...
...wanted to enter - is opposed to the scheme, At a joint meeting of the two faculties to consider the advisability of admitting women to the collegiate departments of the university, it was carried in the affirmative by a majority of one vote. The board of trustees afterwards refused to sanction this, with the proviso that women would be admitted when a special department was made ready for them. The secretary of the faculty of arts, Professor Jackson, delivered an elaborate argument against co-education, covering all the points very fully It has since been published in pamphlet form for distribution...
...Catholic laity, it is stated, to whose sons at present a university career is not open in this country, as the sense of the Catholic Church is averse to Catholic youth procuring their education in Protestant establishments. This is the leading motive of the establishment of the university. The sanction of the Holy See to the undertaking, as well as the co-operation of the entire Catholic Church in the United States, has been secured. It is understood that Bishop Spalding has been promised in advance $1,000,000 to begin the work, one person offering to subscribe...
...their southern outlook, deprive them of most of their summer air and give a gloomy aspect to the lower front rooms; so that the taxes would have to be reduced because of the injury to the property, and some of the inhabitants might move away. Should the college government sanction this defacement of two pleasant streets by such a prison-wall, against the protest of all who reside in the vicinity, it would throw a gloom over an improving portion of our fair city that would be profoundly regretted by well-wishers of the college." In addition to this...
...editing of the "Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson" has been entrusted to Prof. Norton, of this university. The interchange of letters began in 1834. Carlyle, before his death, gave his sanction to the appearance of his portion of the correspondence...