Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Columbia University has received a gift of $12,500 which is to be used to purchase new books for the library. Five thousand of the amount is given by President Low. The name of the donor of the balance is not known...
...fifth intercollegiate fencing tournament will take place at the New York Recquet and Tennis Club some time in March. Harvard, Columbia, Annapolis, and Cornell will be represented by three men each. The challenge trophy, to be held for one year by the winning team, is a bronze statue of a swordsman, and has been won by Harvard in all four tournaments...
...candidates for the Columbia University crews have been reduced from forty-five to twenty. The stroke of last year will be used again this season, in a slightly modified form...
...standard compound passenger locomotive, designed by S. M. Vanclain, exhibited in the transportation building at the World's Fair, and put in successful operation since, has been given to the department of mechanical engineering of Columbia. It will be mounted on friction wheels, fitted with brakes, so that it can be run at its highest speed...
...invitation of Brown University, delegates from Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Dartmouth and Brown met in Providence Friday and Saturday for an informal conference upon the subject of eligibility rules and other questions dealing with purer athletics. Professor W. H. Munroe of Brown was elected president and F. W. Moore of Harvard secretary...