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Great improvements have been made this fall in the athletic field presented to Williams college by the Hon. Byron Weston. The grounds, a great improvement on the old ones, are sufficiently large to furnish two foot ball fields, and give an excellent chance for base ball. This fall the donor has built a track which, as far as advantages go, will put Williams on an equal footing with her rivals. The track is oblong in shape, fifteen feet wide and a sixth of a mile in circuit. It is very carefully underdrained and is composed of pin gravel covered...
Through the generosity of Dr. Alvan Talcott, of Guilford, Yale University has just been given the sum of $25,000, which the donor stipulates shall be used to endow a professorship of Greek...
...Williamson has selected, as trustees of the new school, Messrs. John Wanamaker, Franklin B Gowan, Lemuel Coffin, William C. Ledwith, John Baird, Edward Longstrath, Henry C. Townsend, James W. Brooks and Alfred Helmbold, the last gentleman being the donor's private secretary. The trustees have organized and elected Mr. Baird as president, Mr. Brooks as treasurer and Mr. Helmbold as secretary...
Harvard's new dormitory, which will be called the Walter Hastings Hall, after its donor, is now well under way, and will probably be ready for use in the fall of 1889. The basement and two lower stories are already built, and it is hoped that the building will be entirely closed in before winter, so that the plastering may be done during the cold weather. The exterior dimensions are 210x120 feet, and the material used in construction is a yellowish-brown brick, mottled with blue, which is made by the Perth Amboy Company in New Jersey. This material...
According to the New York Herald, Mr. P. T. Barnum is most likely the donor of the $150,000 for the new building at Yale...