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...born and reared in the South. Believing the Southern to be the highest type of civilization this continent has seen, the young ladies are trained according to the Southern ideas of delicacy, refinement, womanhood, religion and propriety; hence we offer a first-class female college for the South, and solicit Southern patronage...
...Decrow, Yale, '80, reports that he has concluded his trip to solicit funds for Yale's new athletic grounds, and has secured subscriptions of between $20,000 and $25,000. The grounds will be formally opened next season with a grand stand accommodating 2000 spectators and the most complete equipment of any athletic ground in the country...
...showy buildings, and to neglect far too much all effort towards perfecting her corps of instructors and her courses of instruction. In consequence of these remonstrances, we believe, the authorities of that institution have abated to a considerable extent their efforts to secure more buildings, and now chiefly solicit professional endowments and similar aids. During the past twenty years Harvard has more than doubled the number of her buildings, chiefly, no doubt, to keep pace with the growth in the number of her students and of her courses of instruction, and to afford adequate accommodations to these. It would clearly...
...abstract of the discussion which was carried on in the Nation this summer in relation to the Divinity School. We cannot but think that the ground taken by the Nation is the right one, and that it was a mistake for President Eliot to come forward so prominently and solicit subscriptions for the school. We are sure that President Eliot, after having done so much to give Harvard a national position, would not intentionally take any step to diminish its claim to that position; but it certainly seems to us that his solicitation of subscriptions for the Divinity School...
...feel sure that our efforts to establish an "American Henley" will meet with general appreciation, and we solicit, and shall doubtless receive, the hearty aid and encouragement of the Harvard University Boat Club. We do not ask for any pecuniary assistance (none of the expenses of the Regatta are to be borne by the colleges), but we desire your advice and approval.... You may not desire to change your eight-oared contest with Yale College, but why should not the proposed races between your crew and Cornell or Columbia be rowed under our auspices, at a regatta open only...