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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first Greek letter society in America appeared in 1776 at the College of William and Mary, and was called the Phi Beta Kappa. Its origin is a mystery, and it is a disputed question as to whether it was founded by Thomas Jefferson, sprang from a Free Mason's lodge, or was introduced from Europe. - [University Herald...
...authorities should certainly take seasonable precautions for ensuring the health of the students. Many serious colds have their origin in this building. If it is impossible to heat the building, let it be abandoned. Sever is surely large enough to furnish room for the examinations. Let Massachusetts be kept carefully, as a relic and reminiscence of by-gone days; that is all it is good for. I hope the students can be aroused to a state of righteous indignation about this matter, as it is of great importance to all. I do not know whose duty it is to take...
...amount of, at least, $15,000. Since the beginning of the year a gift of $100,000 from the estate of the late Eben Wright has been received for carrying on the library. The corporation will, this year, cut off certain expenses in the library of recent origin, and charge their just proportion of various expenses to the several schools; and next year will, in addition, charge special fees for supplies to all students who work in laboratories, and abolish a few unimportant courses of instruction, the loss of which, they believe, will not be seriously felt. They see some...
...report that Columbia was founded from the proceeds of a lottery, owes its origin to the following: In 1746, the governor of New York approved an act entitled "An act for raising the sum of Sigma250 by a public lottery for this colony, for the encouragement of learning and towards the founding of a college within the same...
...that women, like snakes, fancy themselves hidden from pursuit if their eyes are covered? Is the snake the origin of the female, - and the owl of the male? What we see of the intellects of the two sexes might give some foundation for such an opinion...