Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual report of the provost of the University of Pennylvania says, "In all college life athletics have become a very prominent feature. Recognizing both the advantages and dangers of gymnastic exercise, the board of trustees has resolved to establish a systematic supervision of physical culture, and has so far agreed with an athletic association of alumni and undergraduates that a goodly lot of ground with suitable buildings and appliances, will soon be devoted to athletic sports under the careful oversight of an experienced director...
Chas L. Colby the founder of Colby University, Waterville, Me., has given $1,000,000 to establish a new university in Wisconsin...
...said that the sum of thirty thousand dollars and one hundred and sixty acres of land have been pledged by the people of Mitchell to establish the University of Dakota...
...student spurred by the desire to gain high marks is apt to do merely the work which she feels will conduce to this end. Her college course thus signally fails to develop those scholarly habits of thought and study which it is the aim of the higher education to establish...
Thirty thousand dollars, to establish an art gallery at Smith College, has been given by the late Winthrop Hillyer of Northampton...