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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which structure all the lockers, also, should be removed. A fund has been started for the erection of such an edifice, to be built just back of the gymnasium and in close connection with it, in fact forming part of it. This fund now amounts to about twenty thousand dollars, but thirty thousand must be contributed before the foundations can be laid. Here then is a chance for our complainers to prove themselves generous benefactors to the university by subscribing to this fund. It is hoped that the new building will be erected in spring. Until that time we must...
...report in the Sunday papers that five hundred thousand dollars had been bequeathed to Harvard by E. Price Greenleaf, of Boston, awakened the liveliest interest among the friends of the university, but further inquiry does not confirm this report in its details. Yesterday afternoon President Eliot, in conversation with a CRIMSON editor, stated that nothing definite was known in regard to the legacy. All that was known was that several years ago, Mr. Greenleaf made a will, bequeathing considerable property to Harvard. It is not known how large an estate the deceased left, nor how much of his property comes...
...unusually large audience was gathered in Sanders Theatre yesterday evening to listen to the fourth of Prof. Lanciani's delightful lectures on Roman Archaeology. His subject was the Tiber, etc. It is surprising to learn that almost one thousand volumes have been written about this famous river. As the Tiber is the great waterway from Rome to the Sea, it is natural that Ancus Martius, one of its early kings, should have founded Ostia Tiberina at the mouth of the river...
About five thousand people saw the final struggle for the foot-ball championship. It had rained hard all right, and all day up to the time of game had drizzled so that the field was slippery and in places covered with water...
...spite of the rain, nearly ten thousand spectators witnessed the Yale-Princeton game at Princeton yesterday...