Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will of the late William Hilton of Boston, Harvard, Amherst and Williams each receive $50,000. The same amount is left to Phillips Andover and $10,000 to the Abbot Female Seminary of Andover. All of these sums, with the possible exception of the last, are for the aid of poor students, hence do not swell the available funds for college management. By this gift Harvard will be able to offer an inducement for some poor student to make his home with...
...leading actors who visited Boston the past years. One of the most attractive features is the fine collection of engravings that adorn this work, portraits of Booth as Iago and as Hamlet, of Ada Rehan, of Augustin Daly's company, of Mr. Lewis and Mrs. Gilbert, of Mrs. Vincent, late of the Boston Museum and of other actors and actresses in costume and in street attire, besides pictures of scenes from the most noted plays...
...communication column this morning the late treasurer of the boat club comments upon our position in regard to the boating expenditures. He says: "Such hasty and unjust criticism as that of last Saturday can do no good while it tends to make still harder the disagreeable duties of the men who collect money for the crew...
First, those who neglected to inform the students of the financial difficulties until the middle of June, too late to accomplish much good. Second, those students, and the number is not small, who subscribed and failed to pay their subscriptions. Third, the management which went ahead even to new expenses without sufficiently impressing upon the students the necessity for the funds...
Alexander Duncan, class of '25, Yale, has just given $20,000 to the college to be used according to the judgment of the corporation. Trinity College has also received a gift of $50,000 without conditions of any kind. The gift was from the estate of the late S. M. Buckingham of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. But Exeter fares better than the colleges by receiving a gift of $110,000 from the will of the late F. E. Parker. The Yale Theological School has also been remembered, for by the will of the late Emily W. Colton, on the death...