Word: conn
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 20. - The Yale College Library has sent out a circular letter to the alumni asking for funds. It is stated that the needs of the institution are growing in proportion to the gain in other ways, and that while the library is well filled, there are not sufficient funds with which to keep the books up in good condition. This appeal is due largely to the fact that the $50,000 left by the Phelps estate and which has been used in aid of the library, has now been expended in the construction of a gateway between...
...membership can hardly fail to be a much sought for honor. The following committee from the class was elected to act in conjunction with a committee from the Faculty to look into the matter with power to act: J. W. Roe of Brooklyn, I. W. Greer of Central Village, Conn., and F. E. Newton of Buckingham, Conn...
...HAVEN, CONN., Feb. 8. - Michael C. Murphy, trainer of the Yale football eleven and the track athletic team today signed to train the track athletes of the New York Athletic Club the coming summer. Mr. Murphy will take the New York club's candidates in hand about May 20, after he has developed the Yale sprinters for the intercollegiate games. He has developed more crack sprinters than any other American trainer...
...HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 7. - The committee in charge of the George William Curtis memorial fund have decided to establish a revolving lectureship, the incumbent of which shall deliver lectures in Yale, Harvard, Columbia and perhaps Amherst and Brown Colleges. The following Yale professors have charge of the fund at Yale. Weir, Bishop and Henry Farnam. The holder of the lectureship will select for his theme a civic subject, similar in scope to the questions to which Mr. Curtis devoted his life work...
MIDDLETOWN, Conn., Feb. 4. - At the meeting of the football team of Wesleyan held today R. P. Wilson '97 of Middletown was selected captain of the team for the coming season...