Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pamphlet entitled "A Sketch of the University of Virginia" has recently appeared, from which we learn, with some astonishment, that of the gifts it has received since its establishment in 1819, amounting to $719,000, $653,000 have been contributed since the war-a fact of which the moral does not need to be pointed out. This total of $719,000 is exclusive of the gifts constituting part of the fixed endowment of the University, yielding a revenue which amounts to $282,600, all of which, except $2,600, has been also given since the war. Virginia has always been...
Several of the crews and other organized squads at the gymnasium, took a holiday on Saturday. The Princeton sketch club has a membership of twenty. This news should encourage our own club...
...publish to-day a short sketch of what is destined before long to become an incorporate part of the University, the far famed Annex. Although this institution has aroused great interest in educational circles, it is, we fear, looked upon with too much indifference by the students of the college. We have known men to graduate without having the faintest idea of the relation which this, to them, almost mythical institution bears to the University. But whatever the attitude of the students may be towards the Annex, the professors surely, look upon it with the greatest favor. Prof. Byerly...
...subject was made to include the explorations of the coast of eastern Massachusetts anterior to the coming of the Pilgrims, and the voyage of the Mayflower, as well as the landing at Plymouth, and the establishment of the colony there. Apropos of the landing, Mr. Deane gave an interesting sketch, how the tradition about Plymouth Rock was handed down. The tradition, it seems, first found its way into print in 1774 through the Old Colony Society of Plymouth. The society got the story from a centenarian who was then in the neighborhood. This man, in turn, got it from...
...neat little volume commemorative of the late Prof. Ezra Abbott of the Divinity School has been published for the alumni of the school. It contains a short sketch of the professor's life, several addresses by different clergymen, and other matter...