Word: foundings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...misfortune to hang mine there. I had the use of it for about three days, when it mysteriously disappeared. Thinking that some one had taken it by mistake, and that I should soon get it again, I brought another one the next day, and two days later found to my intense disgust, that some one had used it for his own needs shortly before I wanted it. The rights of personal property have always seemed sacred and inviolable to me, but evidently there are some students here who think that private towels, if they are outside of the lockers, were...
...Scotch parson and a Catholic bishop, was appointed by the Territorial legislature with full powers to organize the University. But the Territory had no ready money to give to the cause of higher education. The choice of a township was so restricted that good lands could not be found in one block. Again Congress came to the aid of the educational cause, and in 1826 granted two townships instead of one, with the privilege of selecting the entire amount of land in detached portions from any part of the public domain not previously granted. Upon this wise and generous provision...
...Empire; present state of the world; origin of the present States and Kingdoms-their extent, power, commerce, religions and customs; modern chronology." This was history with an ancient and geographical basis, but with a modern political outlook. It was a highly creditable course-the best that the writer has found in the annals of any American college-at that early period. It savored, however, more of German than of English origin. John Gross, professor of German and Geography, evidently represents a European current in American college instruction. Side by side with historicogeographical studies at Columbia ran the old scholastic course...
...solid silver hatchet head weighing a hundred ounces, which was recently found in Sonora, has been purchased by an alumnus of Princeton and will be presented by him to the museum of the college...
...FOUND.-A pair of spectacles at the Globe Theatre, Sunday. Inquire at Leavitt and Peirce...