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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Boston papers have an announcement that by the will of the late Rev. Frederick Frothingham, of Milton, Massachusetts, the sum of $30,000 is left to Harvard College for the endowment or enlargement of a professorship in Ecclesiastical History. No official announcement of the gift has yet been received at the Office, although it is earnestly hoped that the news may prove true. Mr. Frothingham graduated in '49, and was a devoted friend to the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Gift of $30,000. | 4/10/1891 | See Source »

...took an unusually large number of courses, and distinguished himself by getting honorable mention in Mathematics. But few people realized how hard he struggled to support himself. By great exertions he managed to lay by enough to enable him to graduate. He never, however, received his diploma. The little sum so dearly earned was lost, but through no fault of his. Too pround to accept a loan offered by a classmate, he left college and took a position as assistant engineer on the C. B. and Q. R. R. Here he had many intricate problems to solve, and his success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Edward Anson Seeley. | 3/23/1891 | See Source »

...bound to work well in practice. As a matter of fact, including what the men themselves pay, the yearly expenses for training table by three class crews, the freshman football, and the four 'varsity teams has been eleven thousand dollars. It is a question how much of this large sum has been pure profit divided among the boarding houses where the teams have trained. A very considerable portion, at any rate, of the money has been clear gain for the boarding houses; and by the new plan the teams are to get a little of this profit. Under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/17/1891 | See Source »

...short period in his life during which we have known him of principal interest to us. Howell was president of the '92 freshman glee club and sang for a time on the University glee club. He was a member of the Institute of 1770. It is difficult to sum up the qualities of a man familiarity with whom is apt to blind the perception of those traits which would be apparent to a stranger. All those who knew Howell slightly will remember him first, probably, for his courteous manner and kind-hearted disposition. To those, and there are many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seymour Howell. | 3/11/1891 | See Source »

...case the use of the money is to be subject to the approval of the trustees of the gift. Harvard is only one of the many colleges that are to benefit by this apportionment. Yale is to receive in addition to the $300,000 left by the will, the sum of $150,000 for the erection of the Fayerweather building; but if the authorities consider the building impracticable, the sum shall be used for general purposes of the college. Other colleges beside Harvard that receive the sum of $100,000 are Union College, University of New York, Rutgers College, Barnard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Money for Colleges. | 2/27/1891 | See Source »

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