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...urges the importance of immediately beginning the construction of a new gymnasium and expresses the hope that friends of the college will give the $150,000 needed. Reference is made to the inadequate accommodations for students in the scientific department, and information is given that it is intended to erect a new building which shall be devoted to civil and mechanical engineering. A new department in the Divinity School is suggested by the establishment of several graduate fellowships and scholarships of considerable value...
University of Pennsylvania will erect a dormitory at a cost of $125,000, which is to be the largest in the United States...
...that the foot-ball season is finished, the attention of the students at Princeton is turned to base-ball. The outlook at present is very dull, and the old members are somewhat despondent. The ball cage which was erected last winter. after considerable effort, was blown down during the summer and has not been rebuilt. The gymnasium is not suitably equipped for winter practice, and there is almost no opportunity for batting. It is a recognized fact that a cage is indispensable for the formation of a good nine, and this accident is very serious. The men interested in base...
...board of Trustees at Cornell University have decided to erect a new chemical laboratory and have appropriated $80,000 from the permanent funds of the university for this purpose. The great increase in the number of student during the past few years has made the new building a necessity. This laboratory, will be begun at once and will be the fourth building which is in progress on the Cornell campus. The trustees on the Cornell campus. The trustees have also appropriated $40,000 to complete the engineering building. They have decided to name the physical laboratory Lincoln Hall...
...buildings. The need of a new dormitory is more strongly felt this year than ever, every room in college being occupied and a large number of men being forced to room in town. Both of the literary societies are in a flourishing condition and will probably before long erect new halls. The Philadelphian Society, the religious organization of the college, held its annual reception to the entering students recently, and added nearly an hundred new men to its roll...