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...York Athletic Club is to expend $1,000,000 in erecting what is to be the handsomest and best appointed Athletic Club building in the world. It will contain the largest swimming tank in New York and the rowing tank, it is said, will be superior to those of Harvard and Yale...
...trustees of Amherst have voted to expend $100,000 of the recent gifts to the institution in the immediate erection of a building for laboratories for the departments of chemistry and physics...
...trustees of the Chicago University have decided to ask the citizens of Chicago for $500,000 more to expend for buildings...
...divided the benefits to be gained under three heads-the military, the economic advantages, and political expediency. In case of was with England the frontier opens along its whole line an easy way to get troops into this country. Secondly, it was foolish for the United States to expend $4,500,000 a year to keep a guard along the frontier to prevent smuggling. Thirdly, the troublesome fishery question would be entirely gained. F. B's. Williams, '88, for the negative, declared that Canada would not come in of her own accord, that there would always be a sectional line...
...costumes of the Greek play are to be sold to the actors at fifty per cent. of their original cost. This plan is peculiar from the fact that the more any one individual did for the success of the play, the more he has to expend to obtain a momento. Indeed, this scheme is so consistently carried out, that Dikaiopolis and Lamachos cannot obtain their costumes at any price - they being retained for "preservation." Pennsylvanian...