Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chosen to speak are:- W. G. Cosad, Phelps, New York; E. S. Farrington, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Irving Fisher (valedictorian), New Haven; E. W. Harter, Albany, N. Y.; D. B. Hardenburg, Port Jervis, N. Y.; W. A. Parshall, Port Jervis, N. Y.; H. G. Platt, Milford, Conn.; B. C. Steiner (Latin oration), Baltimore; H. E. Steinervens, New York city; H. C. Tolman, Hanover, Mass., M. R. Wait, Toledo, Ohio...
...Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute has prohibited the publication of all periodicals by the students...
...Chittendon of Brooklyn recently made a gift of Yale of $125,000 for a new library. The ground for the structure has already been broken, and work is now progressing rapidly. The plans, which were prepared by a New York firm, provide for a building with a capacity of 300,000 volumes. It will be almost square, about 100 feet on a side, and 80 feet high. The walls will be of brown stone in two shades, and the floors will be iron, finished with rock asphalt and tile. This will make the building entirely fire-proof, even...
...name of the donor of the new building which is to occupy the corner of the Yale campus where the fence stands, has very recently been learned to be that of Mrs. Edwards Pierrepont of Brooklyn, whose husband was graduated at Yale in 1837. The building is to be put up in commemoration of a son, Henry Edwards Pierrepont, who died in Rome some five years...
...Harvard Club is being organized in Brooklyn. There are 300 Harvard graduates in the city and over 150 have already signed as members of the club...