The Charter and Historical Sketch of Dartmouth College ...College, 1900 - 60 pages |
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Page 14 - And we do further of our special grace certain knowledge and mere motion for us our Heirs and Successors will give grant and appoint that the said Trustees...
Page 51 - Here the feelings which he had thus far succeeded in keeping down broke forth. His lips quivered ; his firm cheeks trembled with emotion ; his eyes were filled with tears ; his voice choked, and he seemed struggling to the utmost simply to gain that mastery over himself which might save him from an unmanly burst of feeling. I will not attempt to give you the few broken words of tenderness in which he went on to speak of his attachment to the college.
Page 15 - Act. in as full and ample a manner to all intents and purposes as if the same privileges and protections were repeated and re-enacted in this Act.
Page 51 - Sir, I know not how others may feel ' (glancing at the opponents of the college before him), ' but, for myself, when I see my Alma Mater surrounded, like Caesar in the...
Page 38 - The decision in that case did more than any other single act proceeding from the authority of the United States to throw an impregnable barrier around all rights and franchises derived from the grant of government; and to give solidity and inviolability to the literary, charitable, religious and commercial institutions of our country.
Page 50 - Shall our State Legislatures be allowed to take that which is not their own, to turn it from its original use, and apply it to such ends or purposes as they, in their discretion, shall see fit...
Page 16 - Case those that are present are hereby impowered to act, the different place of their Abode notwithstanding, and all affairs and Actions whatsoever under the Care of the said Trustees shall be determined by the Majority or greater Number of those thirteen so convened and met together, the President whereof shall have no more than a single vote.
Page 51 - One thing it taught me, that the pathetic depends not merely on the words uttered, but still more on the estimate we put upon him who utters them. There was not one among the strong-minded men of that assembly who could think it unmanly to weep, when he saw standing before him the man who had made such an argument, melted into the tenderness of a child. "Mr. Webster had now recovered his composure, and fixing his keen eye on the Chief Justice, said, in that deep tone with which he sometimes thrilled...
Page 17 - ... places of meeting for the service aforesaid by a letter under his or their hands of the same one month ' before said meeting Provided always that no standing Rule or order be made or altered for the regulation of said College nor any President or Professor be chosen or displaced nor any other matter or thing transacted or done which shall continue in force after the then next annual meeting of said Trustees as aforesaid And further we do by these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors, create...
Page 13 - ... country, and he and his friends be able to remove and settle by and round about it, that the gentlemen, whom he has already nominated in his last will, (which he has transmitted to the aforesaid gentlemen of the trust in England,) to be trustees in America, should be of the corporation now proposed. And, also, as there are already large collections for said school, in the hands of the aforesaid gentlemen of the trust in England...