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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...school building will be perhaps the most distinguished of all these additions. Its cost is estimated at $400,000, and it will be the finest building ever erected for the purpose. Dedicatory exercises are being arranged for the week of Washington's Birthday, at which all the justices of the U. S. Supreme Court, besides many distinguished attorneys, have been invited to be present...
...previous year. In addition to supporting the other branches of athletics, the management has been enabled to expend over $13,000 on permanent betterments and improvements, as against $10,000 last year. The expenses of the boat clubs have been much larger than in former years, owing to the cost of keeping more men in training, but, as the membership has increased, the deficit is about the same...
...money for the erection of the new University boat-house has been completed by the Harvard Club of New York. The amount asked for two years ago was $25,000, but the increased cost of building materials during the past six months has brought the required amount up to $27,500. The additional $2,500 is now offered by the New York graduates in addition to the previous amount. With the continuance of good weather, the building will be roofed over in a week and there will be no doubt of its completion by February 1 as originally intended...
...museum is to cost $50,000 and is given by Mr. Jacob H. Schiff of New York. The amount available for increasing the collections is now $19,240 which is for the most part the money given by others than Mr. Schiff before he doubled his first gift of $25,000, and was originally intended for the building fund...
...Dodge Memorial Hall, which, with Murry Hall, will be the home of the Philadelphia Society, the religious organization of the university, has been begun and considerable progress has been made. The building is of Brown stone, designed in the English collegiate Gothic style of the fifteenth century and will cost $50,000. It will be ready...