Word: annexation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Annex was never in so flourishing a condition as it is at present. At the spring and fall examinations there were more applicants for admission than ever before. The freshman class now numbers thirteen members, and several more will undoubtedly join the class in the next few days. The Annex will probably have about 85 students as compared with 75 last year. A sign of the prosperity of the Annex is the large number of advanced special students, graduates of Smith, Wellesley, and other colleges. In physics, the class is the largest ever known, and astronomy is studied...
...Annex which it is proposed to build to Trinity's new gymnasium, it is expected there will be enough room for an entire "in field" for base-ball practice...
Tuesday afternoon, May 4, "The Idlers" gave a theatrical performance. The manuscript play, "The Maid of Athens," was lent to the club by Col. Higginson, and it was played with considerable success, at least in the opinion of the uncritical Annex maidens. Some time ago a play, "King Rene's Daughter," was given by the club. So, notwithstanding our reputation for primness and learning, you see we are becoming quite sociable...
Junius S. Morgan, of London, has given to Trinity College the necessary amount of money for a gymnasium. He has also given $10,000 additional to cover the cost of building an annex for practice in base-ball, foot-ball, and tennis throughout the winter months...
Cupples, Upham & Co. have just published a small book of poems, written by Miss Minna Caroline Smith, of the Harvard Annex, and entitled, "In Fruitful Lands and Other Poems." The poems are all extremely ambitious; but it would be wrong to say that many of them are not also very successful. The excellent rhythm and the charming sincerity are characteristics that are always attractive, partly because at the present time at least, they are rather uncommon. Some of these poems suggest real ability and poetic taste, Although in places the poetic sentiment seems to have been sacrificed to rhyme...