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RENTS TO BE RAISED.The income from the new dormitory buildings-the Durfee, Farnam and Lawrence-has been only about five per cent of their cost, and in the case of the Durfee it is only about four per cent, not counting the insurance, care and repair on the buildings. There was a difference of opinion among the faculty and management whether the change in room rents should be made at once, or whether there should be a series of increases of rent extending over an indefinite period of time, and it was thought best to make the change...
...spite of a scarcity of money; and while no small share of the improvement is due to others than the outgoing president, yet it must all be put down as having been brought about during his fourteen years in the presidency. The two Divinity School buildings, the Farnam and Durfee dormitories, the beautiful Battell Chapel, the Sloane Laboratory, and the initial steps in the erection of Lawrence Hall and the Young Men's Christian Association building - all of these will be recorded by the historian of President Porter's career as head of the college. The remarkable growth and present...
...finest, if not the finest, collection of American birds, has been presented by Mr. E. E. Farnam to Amherst college...
...found, also a cafe. On the second floor is a reception room, well and tastefully furnished, with two small dining-rooms. On the third floor is a billiard-room, with a pool and billiard tables, a card-room, and a dining-room. Mr. W. K. Townsend, '71 ; Mr. Farnam, '70 ; Mr. Bowen '81 ; Mr. Camp, '80, and Mr. F. C. Bowen, '84, (the President), were appointed at the meeting as an Advisory Committee, and voted to prepare a book, where all the members of the club since its establishment in its present house, and from the time preceding that event...
...estate of the late Henry Farnam is estimated to be worth $4,000,000 or $5,000,000. It goes to the widow of the deceased and her four sons and one daughter. Upon her death and that of a son, Henry W. Farnam, who lives with her, the homestead in New Haven is willed in trust to Yale College, to be used as a residence by the president or one or more professors whom the president may designate. To maintain the house, that is, to pay insurance, taxes, etc., a plot of land adjourning the house, fronting 80 feet...