Word: newness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sumner prize of $100 was awarded to William Bennett Munro, A.M., '99 for an essay on the "Feasibility of an Universal Staatenbund." The judges were Mr. Charles C. Beaman of New York and Professor E. H. Strobel...
...James Stillman, of New York, who gave the $50,000 for the new infirmary and the land on which it is to be built, has offered to contribute annually for four years the sum of $2500 towards he support of the institution...
...registration in the university for the present academic year is about the same as last year. Considerable interest has been felt in the new courses of study opened this year in banking, commerce and diplomacy. Other new courses are offered in debating, one being very similar to what was so long known at Harvard as "English 6." These courses are under the direction of Dr. Alden of the English department, who was for a time connected with the English department at Harvard...
...making plans for a mock political convention to usher in the campaign of 1900. The Union, which is only two years old and which was largely founded by former members of the Harvard Union, is entering upon a most successful year. It is to have a hall in the new Law building, designed especially for it and fitted up on the plan of a finely finished legislative chamber...
...success of the students' club and its headquarters in Houston Hall seems to have inspired the Faculty to similar efforts on their own account; and the Faculty Club has just moved into a new building directly opposite the campus, where lunch rooms and other conveniences give hope that they may some time have as comfortable club rooms as the undergraduates. Two German plays are to be given in the city during the present academic year, under the auspices and for the benefit of the German department. They are given through the courtesy of Mr. Conried of the German theatre...