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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will of Paul Tulare of Princeton, N. J., bequeaths two million dollars to the city of New Orleans, to erect and endow a college for the education of the white young men of that city in language, literature, science...
Fifty-seven persons were killed and over 300 wounded at Grinnell and Malcolm, Iowa, recently. The list of wounded in the former town comprises some three hundred names, of which some forty may not recover. An appeal for aid for the sufferers has been sent out. A million dollars is imperatively required for them...
...endowment has been increased during the year, by the will of Mrs. Jennie McGraw-Fiske, nearly a million dollars. $45,000 provides for a cottage hospital, for the use of any students who may fall seriously ill during their stay in college; the income of $50,000 is to be applied to the care of the main college building, which was presented to the university by Mrs. Fiske's father; the residue of her gift is to be devoted to the maintenance and care of the university library, which already ranks third in size and importance among the university libraries...
...million dollars is to be appropriated to be distributed among the States for educational purposes. However, "nothing is to go to colleges or sectarian institutions...
...opera house at New York is to have a capital of one million fifty thousand dollars, divided among seventy-five shareholders. Each shareholder has a box but will have to pay the regular price of admission. The interior will resemble the European opera houses. There will be three tiers of boxes. The seating capacity will be three thousand, and there will be room for five hundred more admissions. The stage will be the largest in New York, allowing seven hundred performers to assemble at one time...