Word: gave
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...board of trustees; Rev. William H. Ward and Colonel Mason W. Tyler. Charles D. Adams presided. It was proposed to raise $50,000 to endow the professorship of physical culture in memory of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, which is now held by Dr. Edward Hitchcock. President Seelye gave a detailed statement of the financial condition of the college. He approved the plan of a Beecher memorial, and was of the opinion that if this fellowship was endowed, others would be in a short time. Amherst had one great drawback - that among her alumni there were not wealthy...
...Delphic Literary Society, Swarthmore, gave an operetta in two acts called "The Bohn of Contention," recently...
Over twenty-three million dollars has been contributed to the colleges of this country by twenty men. Three of these twenty - Stephen Girard, Johns Hopkins, and Asa Packer - gave over fourteen million dollars. - Princetonian...
Arthur Boykin, a graduate, then spoke on "Africa in America." He emphasized what a former speaker had said of the sore need of competent teachers in the South, of the eagerness with which the negroes seize all opportunities offered them. The speaker gave a short sketch of his life, better to show the need of his people. Mr. Boykin was followed by Marguerite La Fleshe, who spoke of the difference of the condition of her people, the Omahas, to-day, and fifteen years ago when she lived among them. Then they lived as tribes; but in the interval they have...
...minutes' rest was allowed before the men came to the scratch once more. Bowen got several good holds, Hunter turned quickly and avoided a fall. Bowen gave up ground work, finding it useless to turn over his adversary. Bowen was hurt, and three minutes were given for repairs. After several minutes more of good hard wrestling, time was called without either man having secured a fall...