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...whole, the taste displayed is very good, a large proportion of the apartments being expensive in their appointments. One of the finest rooms is insured for five thousand dollars, and there is one other which is even more expensively fitted up. It is not at all unusual to expend one or two thousand dollars in the furnishing of a room." Mr. Winkley calls attention to a custom, which we must contess never to have observed, except in rare instances...
...educate, it puts an end to private benevolence; and, in building a new structure, it undermines the old. The same logic applies to the universities under state control. Would it not be folly for Michigan to support a great university within her borders, and, at the same time, to expend wealth for the maintenance of one without? It seems to the writer that a plan which promises injury to our colleges, both large and small, would not be truly promotive of education. In the quest for higher culture, Mr. R. B. Hayes, Mr. Andrew D. White, and the other advocates...
...Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, at Cambridge, was held on the 17th instant. The treasurer announced that he had received $900 from subscribers in aid of American research, in addition to the $2550 mentioned in the last annual report, and the curator was authorized to expend the same for the continuation of explorations under his direction. The curator, in presenting his report, stated that he had also received $775 for special purposes, of which $550 were for Miss Fletcher's researches among the Indians. Twenty-five free lectures were given at the museum during the past year. Numerous...
...vessel of war is much needed on the northern lakes, and it is proposed to expend $300,000 in constructing a suitable...
...Association of Amateur Athletes, and chose the New York Athletic Club Grounds at Mott Haven for this year's meeting, which comes off, under the constitution, on the last Saturday in May, - the 28th. It was also passed that a committee of two be appointed by the chair, to expend not more than $150 in the purchase of a championship cup, to be held each year by the college taking the greatest number of first prizes, the names of the college and the individual winners to be inscribed on the cup. $25 additional was subscribed by the College Athletic Association...