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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...very reasonable price, and of satisfactory quality. Any large house would contract to furnish Harvard with all the ribbon needed, and then we could be sure of having it all alike. The suits, too, could be made there for less than is charged here, and the whole probably would cost less and be more satisfactory than at present. It is to be hoped that Harvard's color may never again run short, and that the crimson may hold and maintain its old place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

...make as good a display as they should have done in Friday's game. They were met in the morning by several of the Yale Nine, who very politely drove them about the city, showing them among other things their new boat-house, a very fine building which cost about $ 20,000. The new Chapel now in course of erection promises to be very handsome and an ornament to the College. An invitation was extended to the Nine to remain over that evening to a supper, but, knowing the work of the morrow, they prudently refused, The game was called...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY GAMES IN NEW HAVEN AND PRINCETON. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

...reports that come to us represent the new building which Trinity College is to erect as an architectural wonder. It is to be constructed for a combination of purposes, - Chapel, Library, Dormitory, etc., all under one roof; the whole to be finished in 1877, at a cost of about one million...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/12/1875 | See Source »

...attractions of Amherst College as enumerated in the Student are such as to make us tremble for the future of our own Alma Mater. The new College Church, "just finished at a cost of $70,000," is a "beautiful building with a chime of bells in the tower," and is "designed exclusively for Sabbath worship." The town, though small, possesses some of the finest religious edifices in the State, and the Mt. Holyoke Ladies' Seminary, as well as another "College for Ladies, is near at hand. "Board can be obtained for $3.50 a week, or a little more"; and that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 3/12/1875 | See Source »

...Harrison, Taylor, Lincoln, and Grant were, Mr. Bratt, with culpable negligence, does not tell; but we know that every election was a matter of very great expense, as it involved the purchase of thousands of votes, each of which cost fifteen cents in American money, and since, in the statement last quoted, Mr. Bratt intimates that he bore a portion of the election expenses himself, he could not have been a poor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHILOSOPHY LECTURE. | 2/26/1875 | See Source »

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