Word: takings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual winter meeting of the Princeton Athletic Association will take place...
...last meeting occurs on March 24th, and the following events will take place: Running high jump, flying rings, rope climbing, pole vault, horizontal bar, spring-board leaping, running high kick, tumbling, and the final tug-of-war between the teams winning the former events...
...many people in favor of college education. Two hundred dollars a year will go a long way toward paying a man's college expenses, and many poor young men who may not have thought of a college education as a possible thing for them will be ready to take the responsibility of paying what expenses they incur above the two hundred dollars...
...Alumnae of Wellesley College, in aid of the Norumbega fund of the college. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Mr. Arlo Bates, Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton and others will read selections from their own works and Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer will preside. The reading will take place in the parlors of the Revere House on Monday...
...this action, Columbia is the first of the large colleges to take the step of giving to women the same privileges as are extended to men. Whether this progressive movement will call forth corresponding action from her sister universities remains to be seen. For some time the smaller colleges-Colby, Wesleyan and others-have admitted women as candidates for degrees, but until the plan is adopted by the more prominent institutions of learning the success of this revolutionary attempt cannot be assured...