Word: civic
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...relations sustained between government and university are so harmonious. In return for municipal care and protection, she grants our citizens the use of a library of 192,000 volumes, free lectures on the arts, sciences, or literature in her Sanders Theatre, and the use of her magnificent halls for civic purposes. We are indebted to her for kindly courtesies to distinguished guests, notably of late, when our French visitors, the descendants of Lafayette, Rochambeau, De Grasse, and others, our Revolutionary allies, under the escort of the representatives of the city government, were received by the president, faculty, and students...