Word: realing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There is, as a matter of fact, very little to criticize in the relations of the college and the city. The fact that Harvard has a large amount of real estate which pays no taxes is sometimes complained of by the over-careful tax-payer, who has a feeling that his own taxes are thus made higher. There is probably, however, not a city in New England whose people would not gladly give the land, with perpetual exemption from taxation, if Harvard University would transfer itself within their borders. Harvard certainly contributes vastly more to the city in merely material...
...Preston, is so carefully prepared that it might well serve as a short history of the great orator. Herbert Tuttle gives us an account of the Emperor William. The student of fine arts will be interested in reading "Mr. Ruskin's Early Years." An article of real value is that on "Charles Brockden Brown," the first American novelist. The name is so seldom heard at present that the pioneer of American fiction is almost forgotten. The "Contributors' Club" and "Books of the Month" close the number...
...measure due to the education it has afforded them, attesting their appreciation by giving financial aid to smooth the path of that large class of young men who have the desire, but not the adequate means, of obtaining the advantages of a collegiate training. They recognize how much more real good can be done by leaving their property to an institution which has proved its fitness to survive by an existence of over two hundred and fifty years, instead of trying to found some new school of arts or science. But the last legacy is one of particular value, because...
...wife of Joseph Colton of New Haven, made a bequest of $40,000 to the Yale Divinity School. Her will provides that at her husband's death the bulk of her property shall go to Yale. The divinity school will also receive, under the will of Mrs. Catherine Jorman, real estate worth about $10,000 after the termination of a life interest...
...said that the new Gilbert and Sullivan opera will be produced in June next. The real cause of the delay has been the very serious illness of Sir Arthur Sullivan. Mr. Gilbert has finished the libretto. The composer has taken it with him to the south of France, and has already done the finale to the first act. The scene of the new opera will be laid in the Tower of London, and the period will be the time of Henry VIII...