Word: landing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...western railroad was built for the purpose of creating traffic. The differences in the purposes of building these two types of railroads must be kept in mind to understand the differences regarding stock sharing and stockholders. It is a falacy to suppose that the United States gave away land at the time of the formation of western railroads without getting any return...
...representatives from the Baptist and Methodist denominations; from the Roman Catholic church, and perhaps even from others. The same thing is true of the students themselves. They come from families belonging to all denominations and have clubs made up of members from all the principal preparitory schools in the land. These facts may be characteristic of other colleges as well as Yale, but nowhere to such an extent. And this was the case a hundred years ago. In the catalogue for 1839-40 every state in the union, except Indiana and Arkansas, was represented and also Canada, West Inda, Greece...
...Calkins, '90, Carpenter, L. S., Curtis, '92. Dean, '91, Mead, '91, McCoy, '90, McLeod, '90, Nelson, '91, Simons, '91, Stetson, Trafford, '93, Washburn, '90, Washburn, '91, Winsor, '93, Wrenn, '92, Soule, '93, Lee, '91; for pitcher-Gambrill, Holland, Howe, Luce, Spalding, Young, Cummings, Ball; for catcher-Babbitt, Hale, How land, Mason, Upton, Bell, Chapman...
...circular has been sent out by the committee in charge of finishing the Yale gymnasium, soliciting $40,000 more to complete the amount needed for land, building, and equipment...
...erecting buildings, but that the income should be used to defray current expenses. He also stipulated that $400,000 additional should be raised to be used for general purposes and the remainder to become a part of the endowment fund. Mr. Marshall Field has given ten acres of land valued at $100,000, for the site of the university. This gift has more than met the requirements for a beginning and it is expected that buildings will be in process of construction before the money is all contributed. The land together with the subscriptions, make a sum total of over...