Word: landing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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 on Hillhouse avenue, and running 200 feet back to Whitney avenue, with a frontage on that street of 320 feet, is also wined to the college, with authority to sell it and devote the proceeds to the purpose intended. The house is a handsome...
Texas stands at the head in regard to the endowment of its university. It has an endowment of $5,250,000, and 1,000,000 acres of land...
...speaking of the support the faculty had received from outsiders, he said: "The school has received by gift and bequest $320,000 in ten years; it has secured itself in the centre of the city for many years to come by the timely purchase of a large piece of land; it has paid about $220,000 for a spacious, durable and well arranged building; it has increased its annual expenditure for salaries of teachers from $20,000 in 1871-2 to $36,000 in 1883-3; its receipts have exceeded its expenses in every year since...
...only better the more they are played on-we mean bare clay courts. At Princeton no turf courts are used at all. The courts are almost as bare as a billiard table, require but little work, and can be played on half an hour after a rain. The new land east of the new track could be made into bare courts at very little expense, by simply replacing the present thin layer of loam with one of clay, and grading so that the rain would not form puddles. Here is a chance for the officers of the Tennis Association...
Harvard College has recently come into possession of the following real estate by the deed of the trustees under the will of the late Richard D. Harris of Boston : Three undivided twenty-fourth parts of the following parcels of real estate in Boston, viz. : Land, with brick buildings, situated on Union street and Marshall's lane, near Hanover street ; land, with brick building known as the Robertson House Hotel, on the new line of Hanover street as recently widened. These are conveyed subject to the rights of tenants. Also mortgages amounting to $14,400 have been transferred to the college...