Word: akron
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...oratorical contest, Thursday, at Buchtel College, Akron, O., to select a representative to the state inter collegiate contest, there were among the contestants a young lady, named Miss Mary Sibbley, and H. C. Morris, a son of a Chicago millionaire. The judges decided in favor of the young lady, and upon this the father of the young man sprang up and charged the judges with being prejudiced. The son has chalenged the young lady for a second contest for $1000 a side, the stakes to go for the founding of a hospital in Akron, to be named after the successful...
...Buchtel of Akron, O., has just given $100,000 to the college which bears his name, making $300,000 in all, and promises to bestow a large slice of his remaining $2,000,000 upon it by will. His sister, Mrs. Messenger, has given the college $56,000, and will also give more by will...