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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bogus sailors are around again this gear with their "smuggled" cigars. They are "imported" from Boston and wholesale at ten dollars a thousand. Freshmen beware...
...college buildings at Vassar were shown to nearly three thousand visitors during the summer months...
Johns Hopkins University is to have a physical laboratory and observatory costing one hundred thousand dollars...
...pavilion was erected within the college grounds, as a dining-hall for the Alumni, which extended over nearly eighteen thousand square feet; being one hundred and fifty feet in length, and one hundred and twenty in breadth. It was constructed in successive stories, covered with white canvas, and supported in the centre by a pillar sixty-five feet in height...
...institution, and may, in the future, occasion stringent measures against even those students who have great need of easy access to the less frequently used reference books. The trouble arises mainly from the failure of students to replace the books used. In that way alone over two thousand volumes were lost track of last year, - a serious matter indeed in a library taxed as heavily in other directions as ours...