Word: newely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Ernest Van R. Stires, of New York...
Dexter Clarkson Hawkins, of New York...
...university building in the United States. The two hundredth anniversary of its erection falls within the present College year, and plans are under way for the suitable commemoration of the event. The great and General Court made a grant of 8500 pounds in 1718 for the building of a "new college" to be named in honor of the province, and in 1720 the hall was completed. Princeton's "Old Nassau" goes back only to 1756. Massachusetts faced the original Harvard Hall which was destroyed by fire in 1764, and was itself saved by the exertions of neighbors and the members...
Among the new subscriptions received were the following...
Second contributions by Walter C. Baylies '84 and Augustus Hemenway, Jr., '05 of $25,000 and $22,000, respectively, have been received. Boston, $4,212,703 New York, 3,764,483 Outside, 2,604,592 Totals...