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Dates: during 1880-1889
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LOUIS DYER.The University of Vermont is to receive from Mr. J. P. Howard a new recitation building, gymnasium and library buildings. a $25,000 statute of Lafayette, and $50,000 for the endowment of a Professorship of Natural History. Besides this the university has lately received $40,000 in miscellaneous bequests, as well as the splendid library of the late Geo. P. Marsh, numbering 12,000 volumes...
...courses, etc., now in progress, and especially of the possibilities of the library, which has already attracted much attention, and which probably has the largest endowment of any similar institution in the world. The one person above all others to whose munificence these possibilities are due is the late Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske. As a fitting resting-place for her remains, those of her father and of Ezra Cornell, there will be erected a memorial chapel adjoining Sage Chapel. The basement will be a vault for the reception of bodies, and will be entirely without ornament; the upper part will...
...Poor Lo" was becoming an antiquated personage, a thing of the past; it was only when the noble red man was overcome by poor whiskey and too much religion, then we find lacrosse used to signify any thing else than the symbol of Christianity. Writers of Indian travels, as late as 1775 and even 1809, still use the good old name of baggatiway in speaking of the national game of the Indians a game that was played among the Choctaws of the South, as well as by the Sacs and Chippewas of the North. Baggatiway was to Indians what chariot...
...very great. A consideration of these facts affords some interesting reflections upon the subject of the development of athletic sports in America. The question of whether our colleges are really going too far in their encouragement of athletics immediately comes up. Few will doubt, we think, that of late there have appeared certain tendencies in our athletics which, unless checked, might have produced evil results. But that in fostering and maintaining athletic sports generally as far as possible within our colleges, an unwise thing is being done, cannot, we think, be admitted. Whatever of bad example may have been imported...
...Harvard," says the Yale News in a late issue, "has a Co-operative Association for the direct purchase of books and students' indispensables generally." The News should not allow itself to be misled by such unfounded rumors as the above. We had previously chided the News for making the gross misrepresentation of saying that ground had actually been broken for the new Harvard Law School. If things go on at this rate, we may soon expect to hear that Memorial Hall has been completed, or that Harvard has a Dining Association six hundred strong, or some other, equally wild...