Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...making his offer, President Low stated that it was his desire that his gift should be made the means of extending college privileges to some of the boys and girls of his native city, Brooklyn, under conditions calculated, he believes, to be of service to the schools of Brooklyn, both public and private, in maintaining a high standard of efficiency. To his wishes the trustees gladly assented...
Accordingly, twelve Brooklyn scholarships for boys were established in Columbia College and twelve Brooklyn scholarships for girls in Barnard College. The Brooklyn scholarships are to be awarded by competition to Brooklyn boys and girls prepared for college in any school in Brooklyn, either public or private. They are to be offered three a year, beginning with the autumn of 1896, and each scholarship is to be held for the full college course of four years. The winner of a scholarship is to have the privilege of assigning the income of a scholarship to any other competitor, while retaining for himself...
...RIDGE, N. Y., May 3. - The Harvard College lacrosse team, which is to play an intercollegiate championship game tomorrow with the Stevens Institute lacrosse team at New York, met the Crescents of Brooklyn, here today, and was defeated by a score of four goals to two goals. The game, although very interesting, was witnessed by only a small crowd of spectators. No scoring was accomplished in the first half, but in the second half, the Crescents scored the first three goals in seven, twelve and two minutes, respectively, while the next three were scored in four, five and three minutes...
...Chauncey B. Brewster, D. D., Grace Church, Brooklyn...
Harold E. Buttrick of Brooklyn, N. Y., the first speaker for Yale, said: "The income tax law of 1894 was an unnecessary revenue measure. We do not oppose an ideal tax, but the income tax law was passed to meet a deficit which should have been met by economy. It was sectional, too; an attack on the east by the west and the south. The income tax law of 1894 was vicious as a practical measure and violates every principle upon which a genuine income tax is based. The law was an attack of socialists and populists upon capital...