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...order of the Education Department the school-books in French government schools are to be printed in larger type, on account of the recent great increase in shortsightedness...
...appointing as proctors George Lyman Kittredge, A. B., and Herbert Morison Clarke, A. M. The president of the university presented the vote of the president and fellows appointing Oliver Wendell Holmes, M. D., LL. D., Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, in consideration of his many valuable services to the Medical School during the past thirty-five years. Referred to Messrs. Hodges, Lee and Wyman. The president and fellows presented an amended vote upon discipline as follows...
...chairman reported the expenditure of $1000 for the library of the school, which had been procured and was now in use in the large salon of Professor Goodwin's house. The committee authorized the appropriation of $750 for the annual rent, $750 for furniture, and a sufficient sum to pay for the services of a permanent servant. The committee which now has the pledged support for ten years of nine different universities and colleges, guarantees the payment in subsequent years of the rent and pay of the servant and the cost of additions within given limits to the library...
...committee was appointed to report at the next meeting of the committee to be held in Boston on the third Friday in May, a scheme for the publication of a yearly bulletin, which shall contain the theses of students and other results of the work of the school...
Professor Packard of Yale accepted the directorship of the school for the academic year 1883-84. Professor Tyler of Amherst and Professor Van Benschoten of Wesleyan University were added to the committee, making the total number fourteen. The chairman reported that he had received favorable letters from Dartmouth and the University of Virginia, and had reason to expect equally encouraging replies from Cornell, Union and the University of California, by whose acquisition a total sum of $3500 would be pledged for the annual expenses of the school for ten successive years. It was also reported that the good offices...