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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Justices of the U. S. Supreme court, except Justice Miller, are regular college graduates. President Harrison and secretary of Interior Noble are alumni of Miami university, which has given then both the degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/13/1889 | See Source »

...finally decided to erect the building on the grounds given to the university by Mrs. Metcalf for a botanic garden and for such other uses as the university should deem best. The site selected is an excellent one for astronomical observations as the view is unobstructed, except toward the west, where it is cut off close to the horizon, but at no point higher than from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Brown Observatory. | 12/10/1889 | See Source »

...rooms in Hasting are now occupied except numbers 3 and 41. Two or three of the owners are not yet sleeping in their rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/4/1889 | See Source »

...following list shows the comparative support which Yale and other colleges give the graduate and professional schools of Yale. From this table it appears that Yale supplies the largest number of the men in all the departments except that of Theology where Amherst sends the most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Graduates at Yale. | 11/30/1889 | See Source »

...favorite one is the dead man reclining on a couch, surrounded by his friends who make him offerings. The class of representations contains a special reference to the life beyond the grave. All other monuments. however, represent merely common scenes of daily life, without any reference to death except that contained in the general atmosphere of sadness in the figures. There are very few stones on which either a sick or a dead person is represented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Tarbell's Lecture. | 11/26/1889 | See Source »

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