Word: buchtel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...oratorical contest, Thursday, at Buchtel College, Akron, O., to select a representative to the state inter collegiate contest, there were among the contestants a young lady, named Miss Mary Sibbley, and H. C. Morris, a son of a Chicago millionaire. The judges decided in favor of the young lady, and upon this the father of the young man sprang up and charged the judges with being prejudiced. The son has chalenged the young lady for a second contest for $1000 a side, the stakes to go for the founding of a hospital in Akron, to be named after the successful...
...University of California in the Wesh, and at many intermediate points. Among them are Story, Craig, and Franklin, now in Johns Hopkins; Marston, of Baltimore; Gore, lately of the University of Virginia and now in the University of North Carolina; Halstead at Princeton; Mitchell at Marietta; Ely at Buchtel, O.; Stringham in the University of California; Van Velzer in the University of Wisconsin; Prentiss of the United States Nautical Almanac; and Durfee, just appointed to Hobart College...
...Buchtel of Akron, O., has just given $100,000 to the college which bears his name, making $300,000 in all, and promises to bestow a large slice of his remaining $2,000,000 upon it by will. His sister, Mrs. Messenger, has given the college $56,000, and will also give more by will...
...John R. Buchtel will make an additional gift of $100,000 to Buchtel College on the anniversary of the founding of the college, next month...