Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...class at Yale Monday evening the following board of editors was elected to have charge of the publication of the Yale Literary Magazine for the year: C. B. Camp, Cincinnati; C. P. Kitchell, East Liverpool, O.; N. A. Smith, New Haven; C. E. Thomas, Bellevue, Ill.; C. F. Tilney, Brooklyn...
...miles were traversed at an average speed of 65.07 miles an hour, and a speed as high as 92.3 miles an hour was attained. Mr. Robinson was one of the official time-keepers. Mr. Murat Halstead, long editor of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette and now editor of the Brooklyn Standard Union, relates the history of Garfield's nomination and administration, giving important conversations with Garfield and interesting personal reminiscences. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, in a chapter of autobiography, gives an interesting picture of a New England girl's school at the beginning of the war; and also records reminiscences of Emerson...
President Schurman of Cornell has issued the following letter: "I regret to announce that A. Abraham, of Brooklyn, has been defeated in this efforts to enrich Cornell University. Mr. Abraham anthorized me to purchase the late Ernest Renan's great oriental library as a gift to Cornell. His offer was on the point of aceptance when Mme. Calmanne Levy, widow of Renan's publisher, telegraphed that she will present it to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris...
...Ralph Stout, of Brooklyn...
Charles Upson Clark '97, of Brooklyn, was the first speaker chosen, also winning the special prize of $100 for the best debating. He had no experience in debating before entering college, but immediately took a prominent position in the Yale Union debates and at present is vice-president of the organization...