Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...announced that $1500 is to be raised among the students for the purpose of installing a new engine on the boat "Yale" of Dr. Grenfell's, which was the gift of the students of Yale a few years ago. The second Whiting recital was given on Monday in Lampson Lyceum...
...Corporation meeting held recently, miscellaneous gifts amounting to $11,667.87 were accepted for the University. This sum includes a gift of $5000 from Mrs. Horatio King to establish the Horatio King Fund, the income of which is to be devoted to the purchase books for the Department of Government and Administration, and, if there shall be any surplus, for books on scientific subjects...
...bronze is gift of the Duchy of Brunswick to the museum here, and is an exact replica of the statue which has stood before the castle of the Duke of Brunswick since 1166. The original was set up by Duke Henry the Lion, of Saxony, founder of the house of Guelph, the present reigning house of England. The lion was intended as a symbol of his territorial sovereignty which he had obtained from Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. At the time his dominion, embraced practically all of lower Germany...
...Monday the regular November meeting of the Corporation was held, at which was announced the gift to the University of $50,000, by Charles H. Pine of Ansonia, Conn., and he change in the tuition fee of the University to be effective next fall. Calcium Light Night was celebrated Tuesday evening with the giving out of elections by the five Junior fraternities to the sophomore class...
...three poems, the most ambitious and decidedly the best is "Nobody's Land." One passes indifferently over the trite "heart-story" which lies behind this rhapsody and forgives Mr. Jopling some melodramatic lines, content to find in him true appreciation of the great western desert and a gift of expression which sometimes reaches eloquence. There is nothing to praise, in Mr. Murdock's effusion on "The Game." It embodies an idea latent in the minds of many people, that poetry means making similes and the more the better. Mr. Sanger's poem on election which knows no form. It might...