Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will of the late Mr. Hallgarten, a wealthy New York banker, leaves $50,000 to Dartmouth College and a like amount to the University of New York...
...accordance with the will of the late Lewis Morgan, $100,000 will go to Rochester University, to be used for the education of women...
...late Mrs. Charles H. Northam of Hartford, Conn., leaves about $100,000 to Trinity College and the Hartford hospital...
...Middle States is the most striking, and is chiefly among the students of the college proper, one-fifth of whom now come from that part of the country. The number of graduates of the university who settle in the Middle and Western States has been rapidly increasing of late, many of them soon filling places of trust and influence. They exert themselves to improve the preparatory schools in their vicinity, or to found new ones; and by example and precept they suggest to young men that it is expedient to get thorough training for professional or active life. Since about...
...present position of the faculty in the matter of athletics is then taken up and strongly stated. It is substantially that which they have held of late years, and which has been so freely discussed. They believe that college sports should be conducted as the amusement of amateurs, and not as the business of professional players; they are in favor of forbidding college clubs and crews to employ trainers, to play or row with "professionals," or to compete with clubs or crews who adopt either of these practices...