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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gave $170,000 to Colby University and $100,000 to Newton Theological Seminary. J. B. Colgate gave $300,000 to Madison University. George I. Seney gave $450,000 to Wesleyan University. The Crozer family gave $300,000 to Crozer Theological Seminary. It would be easy to add to this list. There are hundreds of men and women whose splendid gifts entitle them to be held in everlasting remembrance. Such gifts are so common now that they are expected. If a rich man should live and die without doing something for the cause of education, he would at once become...
FORENSICS.Junior Forensics will be returned Monday, June 8, from 3.30 to 4.30 P. M., in Sever 11. It is urged that as far as possible the lists of subjects for the Junior Forensic Examination be handed in at the same time and place. Each list must contain four subjects, and must be signed with the name of the student offering it. It is requested that a card of the size of a postal card be used for each list, and that the list be written on one side of the card; it is hoped that the students will regard...
...table. When this is accomplished the adventurer stealthily unbuttons his coat, and at a favorable moment draws his "cribbed" papers from his bosom and pushes them in among the mass of manuscript before him. When this is done the rest of his task is easy. He picks up the list of questions and with the aid of his cribs answers such of them as he can, and when the examination is ended hands in his answers to the waiting professors and coolly carries out of the hall all the evidence of his guile safely wrapped up in a mass...
...inspire a man with a profound idea of his intellectual duty to himself during the warm months. But a zealous student finds during his collegiate term that he has but little time to devote to collateral reading, and is only allowed by pressure of circumstances to gather a list of those books which he deems it his duty to read subsequently when he shall possess more leisure. But if this is neglected, the student falls into the ever ready snare of summer reading. The inadequacy of college life for many of our higher intellectual needs has at length come...
...than is customary, partly owing to the difficulty of obtaining a respectable number of paying spectators at the games played upon our unfenced grounds, and partly from the fact that the undergraduate purse has showed great reluctance to loose its strings when called upon to help swell the subscription list. To relieve the association from its embarrassment we would suggest that a "benefit" game be played on Holmes, feeling sure that the reputation of our team is strong enough to attract a large audience,- to the great profit of the somewhat depleted coffers of the club...