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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard men will be astonished to learn from the Chicago Herald that the song, "Fair Harvard," was written by the poet Whittier, and first read at the late Harvard jubilee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/7/1887 | See Source »

...will of the late Uriah A. Boyden, property, the present value of which exceeds $230,000, was left in trust for the purpose of astronomical research "at such an elevation as to be free, so far as practicable, from the impediments to accurate observations which occur in the observatories now existing, owing to atmospheric influences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Another Bequest to Harvard. | 3/4/1887 | See Source »

...late as 1820, the Common School Geography and the Practical Arithmatic were among the text-books used at Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/4/1887 | See Source »

Williams College will get $50,000 by the will of the late Mrs. McCoskry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/4/1887 | See Source »

...known to all. But still it must be esteemed a great and special compliment to the University that the management of a large bequest, devoted to astronomical research, should be entrusted to the Harvard observatory. Yet it is fitting that this magnificent sum of $230,000, bequeathed by the late Uriah A. Boyden, should be given over by the trustees to the care of the Harvard observatory. For where in this country can be found an astronomical observatory so well equipped in every particular, or scientists of greater ability and of higher reputation? Indeed, while we think with pride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/4/1887 | See Source »

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