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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...inopportune moment for taking up his clumsy weapons. If he had been here in '79-80 he might have found some basis for his argument. There was a strange proportional falling off in the number of western men here between '69-70 and '79-80. But in the last ten years, the very ones chosen by the Advocate's correspondent for his attack, Harvard has made enormous gains and is now much nearer Yale than ever before. In every single representative state the proportion of Harvard men to Yale men is larger than...
...York Evening Post of last Friday a long letter from a Yale alumnus under the heading "Where Reform is Needed at Yale." The writer was much alarmed lest "Yale democracy" should suffer seriously from the yearly increasing extravagance shown in conducting the Junior Promenade. "From the modest affair of ten years ago," he said, "this promenade has grown to an elaborate structure with numerous accessories to manage, enjoy, and recover from, which requires the time and energy of perhaps a third of the students for a week, while the pockets of many of them need the balance of the year...
Forty-three graduates of other institutions are included in the list of students for this year. Of these ten are graduates of Harvard, five each of Brown and Yale, four of Boston, three of Amherst, while one comes from each of the following institutions: University of Minnesota, Oregon State University, Oberlin, Hobart, Bowdoin, Rutgers, Boston college, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania State college, Bryn Mawr, United States Military academy, Holy Cross, Trinity, Robert, Georgetown and Vassar...
...purchasing a site or erecting buildings, but that the income should be used to defray current expenses. He also stipulated that $400,000 additional should be raised to be used for general purposes and the remainder to become a part of the endowment fund. Mr. Marshall Field has given ten acres of land valued at $100,000, for the site of the university. This gift has more than met the requirements for a beginning and it is expected that buildings will be in process of construction before the money is all contributed. The land together with the subscriptions, make...
...carriages, is to be built at the east end of the street. This gateway will be large enough to admit a coach with men on top and allow the teams to pass directly from the barges to their rooms. The first floor is lighted by six windows each about ten feet square, the second receives its light from eight large windows above each one of which is a semi-circular bas relief. The front of the building contains eight oblong windows situated near the top while above these runs a cornice or ornamental design. The height of the building will...