Word: personation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...discourse, it is the many new improvements in the matter of buildings, new courses, etc., now in progress, and especially of the possibilities of the library, which has already attracted much attention, and which probably has the largest endowment of any similar institution in the world. The one person above all others to whose munificence these possibilities are due is the late Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske. As a fitting resting-place for her remains, those of her father and of Ezra Cornell, there will be erected a memorial chapel adjoining Sage Chapel. The basement will be a vault...
...private speech and before an audience. The method by which Mr. Jones seeks to attain this is peculiar to himself, and is the result of a good deal of study on his part. It has so far the confidence of the corporation that, in the absence of any person fitted to supplement him, he has been made the sole instructor. The best part of his system is similar to principles of voice culture heretofore confined wholly to teachers of vocal music. He seeks by simple exercises to give a free movement to the diaphragm, and to insure that every word...
...York law of elections reads "that no person attending any university or seat of learning in the State shall gain or lose a residence...
...class, has at length been signed. By its terms "sittings for all class portraits shall be made by the first day of Feb., 1883," and all groups, "mutually considered class groups, shall be made by the first day of June. 1883." Mr. G. W. Pach agrees to take in person all "out door and other class and society groups." With regard to the heliotype albums, the class agree that Mr. Pach shall receive "for heliotype albums $5, deposited at the time of giving the order, and the balance on delivery of said albums." These heliotype albums will contain cabinet portraits...
...From the beginning of the college year 1883-84 no person shall be admitted as a member of any class or university crew unless he knows how to swim...