Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Trinity College alumni held their seventh annual dinner at Delmonico's, New York, on Monday night. Over one hundred men were present. Among those who spoke were Rev. Dr. Parker, graduate of Oxford University, and Samuel L. Clemens...
...hundred and forty-two Amherst alumni have signed a petition asking for a base-ball advisory committee. The Amherst senate has the matter under consideration...
...mass meeting of Columbia students held recently, adopted resolutions favoring the appointment of an alumni advisory committee to act with the athletic organization. This committee will be appointed at the next business meeting of the alumni, and will doubtless greatly increase the interest of the graduates in the college games...
...certain modification of the policy pursued by the president and faculty for some years past, is one of those interferences by outsiders with college management which must always, on general principles, be more or less regretted. For the overseers are, to all intents and purposes, outsiders-the representatives of alumni who live all over the country-and are intended to be what their name indicates-a sort of council to keep an eye on the doings of the faculty and students. They are, for the most part, men who live in or near Cambridge, and are generally men of high...
More than half the money necessary to build Yale's proposed new gymnasium has already been subscribed. At the last meeting of the committee of the alumni, held in New York, Wednesday, the general plans prepared for the new gymnasium were approved. Slight changes necessary for the accommodation of a rowing tank were made, but in the main Professor Richard's designs will be strictly carried out. President Dwight, in behalf of the corporation, has promised a suitable side for the building near the college square...