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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...largest salary paid to any college president is that received by President Jordan, of Leland Stanford University, the amount paid being...
...second, Millard and Crawford struck out, and Donovan knocked an easy fly to first. For Harvard the second innings was the largest, seven runs being made, only those of Dickinson's and Mason's being earned...
...Roots Gr., spoke next and related some of the facts about China. There are now but 1400 missionaries in the country which contains the largest population in the world. This is at the rate of one for every 250,000 people. To realize what this means let one imagine the state of things if there were only two ministers in all Boston...
...mineralogical department of the Peabody Museum at Yale has recently received a very important addition, through the gift of a large collection of meteorites by Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. English of New Haven. These specimens fell in Winnebago county, Iowa, on May 2, 1890, and are probably the largest collection from any single fall in the world. Nearly all are perfect specimens, being completely covered with a black, burnt coating due to their coming so rapidly through the atmosphere. Several show fractures, and others are thoroughly rounded and melted off. The collection is considered to be a very valuable...
...University has also received from Mr. Sidney A. Kent, brother of Mr. A. E. Kent, who gave the Kent Laboratory to Yale, a gift of $750,000 for a chemical laboratory which will be the largest and best equipped in the country. Professor Ranson, of Johns Hopkins University is in Chicago assisting in drawing the plans. The Parker Club of Chicago contemplates erecting an Electrical laboratory on the campus...