Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Seth Low will address the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association on "Twenty-five years after Gettysburg," at New York today...
About fifty graduates of Yale gathered in Springfield Tuesday night to attend the alumni dinner of the Yale alumni of Western Mass. The Hon. W. S. Shurtleff presided. President Dwight was received with great applause and in his address praised the work of the university in the past and spoke of the future prospects and plans. After the conclusion of Pres. Dwight's address, Senator Davis arose and said: "Our alma mater was never so strong, never so full of vigor, although in her two hundredth year, as she is today. The older she grows the younger...
...annual meeting of the Yale Alumni Association at New York, last Friday, addresses were made by Stagg, Corbin, and Stevenson, and music was furnished by the college glee and banjo clubs...
...will be discussed at the club's monthly meetings: "The Advisibility of a Universal Language," "Practical Politics," "Robert Elsmere." Bronson Howard will lecture on "The Construction of a Play," and M. Coquelin will lecture in French on "Shakspere and Moliere." The club includes among its members many of the Alumni of both Harvard and Yale as well as many other noted literary and scientific men from all parts of the country...
...colleges can boast a prouder record or more eminent alumni than the old University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson, a fact which he thought worthy to be chronicled, in writing his own epitaph, beside the immortal fact of his having been the author of the Declaration of Independence. The fact that he was twice President of the United States Jefferson thought less worthy of record. Although prostrated by the war, the university has since that time received over $700,000 in legacies and gifts, exclusive of its fixed endowments. It has no President but its affairs are administered...