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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tickets for the Harvard side of the field at Saturday's game were sold out at 7.15 last evening. Three thousand tickets have been sold...
...number of the Yale alumni, considering that the present income to Yale University of only four hundred thousand dollars, is too small, have or the Yale Alumni University Fund Association, which is to be managed by nine directors and a treasurer. A pamphlet has been issued which describes the object of the association and the means by which it is to aid the University. All past members of the University are able to join by contributing to the fund, which will be applied to the general needs of the University by the University Corporation, and it is expected that...
...cost of maintaining a standing army is immense but the fact must not be lost sight of that the keeping of this army exercises a good influence over all Italy. For the past one thousand years Italy has been divided into so many different states that today each district has its dialects, local feeling, etc. This commingling of young men fosters and encourages a national and patriotic feeling. The law of the army compels the soldiers to attend night schools and consequently at the expiration of their term of service the young men return no longer rude and illiterate...
...American Protective Tariff League offers to undergraduate seniors in the colleges of the United States a series of prizes for approved essays on the "Effect of Protection on the Purchasing Power of Wages in the United States." The essays are not to exceed eight thousand words and must be sent to No. 23 West Twenty-third Street, New York, before March 1, 1891. Awards will be made June 1st, 1891, as follows: For the best essay, one hundred and fifty dollars; for the second best, one hundred dollars; for the third best, fifty dollars. The silver medal of the League...
...work which has been done, and can rest assured that the large amount of money they have raised from the students, already overburdened with demands for help, will act as a forcible argument for the urgency of the object. This morning a circular will be sent to many thousand of the alumni asking for aid. This circular expresses the feeling of the officers of the university and of the undergraduates; it is re-enforced with a statement of the student subscription and also with a list of the alumni committee which contains so many well-known names that of itself...