Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great fire and shrinkage in value, and other unfortunate circumstances, the university will realize less than $700,000 from this magniflcent be quest. Amasa Stone gave $600,000 to Adelbert College by direct gift and by bequest. W. W. Corcoran gave $170,000 to Colombian University in money and land. Benjamin Bussey gave real estate worth $500,000 to Harvard University. Samuel Williston, William J. Walker, and Samuel A. Hitchcock gave between $100,000 and $200,000 each to Amherst College. Whitmer Phoenix gave the bulk of his property, amounting to about $640,000 to Columbia College. J. B. Trevor...
...Medical Schools, Special Students, and candidates for higher degrees will be allowed six yard and three Memorial tickets on payment of $3.00. Past members of the class not now in college must apply for tickets in person, or by written order on or before June 11. Money in all cases must be paid on receipt of tickets, and applications must be made in person or by written order at times above mentioned. Tickets not sold at these times, will be sold by the committee to members of the senior class on a day hereafter appointed. Provisions will be made later...
...Holmes Field to see the championship game with Brown. When the nines came upon the field it was found that the grass had become so wet that anything like good plying was impossible. It was therefore decided to play an exbibition game-in order to save the gate money-and the Brown nine was sent to the bat. Winslow and Jones formed the Harvard battery, while the Brown team played in their regular positions. After two innings had been played, at which time the score stood 4 to 1 in Brown's favor, the game was called, and the spectators...
...cents an afternoon, more or less, for the use of the new tennis courts. This in itself is not much, but if one plays every afternoon it soon mounts up to a very respectable sum. While realizing the fact that the Tennis Association is in need of money to pay for the new courts and to keep them in order, which last is a very considerable item in the case of the clay courts, would not the constant player be given some advantage over the man who plays perhaps half a dozen times a year? In the base-ball games...
...Moscow for natural sciences, although at each all subjects are taught. The University of Moscow, the largest and oldest, was founded in 1755, and has a library of 175,000 volumes, 1,600 students, and 75 instructors. The yearly fees are about 100 roubles, or $75 in our money. The government gives 400,000 roubles per year towards its support...