Word: campuses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feature. Literary exercises were held in the Town Hall, the oration being given by ex-Gov. Bell. The speaker in his remarks alluded to the influence of the Academy in helping to build up the town. An immense number of people took dinner in a large tent on the campus. The exercises of the day closed with a promenade concert and with dancing in the gymnasium...
...Yale begin Friday, June 22, with the DeForest prize speaking. President Dwight preaches the baccalaureate sermon on Sunday; and on Monday will take place the presentation exercises of the graduating class, with the class oration and poem in the chapel; the reading of the class history on the campus, followed by the planting of the class ivy; and, in the evening, the senior promenade in Alumni Hall...
...college until 1883. He then went to Rochester. He was the favorite candidate among the students, and his election was received with great delight. On the arrival of the new president in Schenectady last Wednesday evening he was met by the students in a body and escorted to the campus while the college bell was rung, the college cheer given and a great bonfire kindled. The ability which Prof. Webster has already shown gives assurance of a successful administration, and it is expected that Union College which has been famous in the past, will win back its old popularity...
...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...
...exceeded all bounds of moderation and was carried into the small hours of Sunday morning. The hostility was intensified Monday night, the occasion being the annual celebration of the death of the sophomore societies. A crowd of about seven hundred students, headed by a brass band, marched around the campus and then proceeded to the residence of President Dwight. In spite of the repeated cheers and calls, the president, contrary to his usual custom, did not appear. The processions, after visiting several professors, none of whom responded, returned to the "fence." Here a general rush and melee ensued, which...