Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...about meals. In England the student is thrown more upon his own resources. "His 'house' gives him a breakfast of tea and bread and butter; he markets for himself for what else he wants - eggs, marmalade, jam, potted meats. In school, as out of it, the American breakfast of fish, beefsteak, hot cakes, or what not, is unknown. The boys breakfast in small rooms, twenty or twenty-five together, each eating such breakfast as his means, his tastes, his skill in marketing, or the liberality of a wealthier friend may afford him. The school is divided into classes or 'forms...
...Hamilton Fish, the president of the board of trustees of Columbia College, makes complaint, in a recent interview, that the claims of Columbia to popular notice in the shape of gifts of money have been overlooked. Mr. Fish says: "Columbia College has only had two gifts in the form of money, and one of them is of no avail yet. * * * There has been an occasional scholarship established; but compare this record with that of Harvard and other large colleges. They are constantly receiving large contributions...
...work with the means at her command." The accounting for this lack of interest by saying Columbia is lost sight of, "surrounded as it is by other institutions of learning, libraries, and museums" is peculiar, as one would expect Harvard to disappear from public view for similar reasons. Mr. Fish seems to have forgotten Tufts, Boston University, Institute of Technology, and the "Annex...
Booth's Theatre of New York was yesterday sold to Mr. James D. Fish, president of the Marine Bank, for a trifle under...
...petition signed by twelve hundred people was presented to the Columbia College trustees yesterday by the Hon. Hamilton Fish, asking that the privilege of the college be extended to ladies...