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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...work of rearranging the college library, which was begun almost a year ago, is now nearly completed, great progress having been made during the vacation. The sixty thousand volumes comprising the library were formerly divided into four divisions, being owned by four different societies; but now the societies have voted that the libraries belonging to them be thrown together and reclassified, so as to form one complete whole, instead of being so widely scattered that, to find one book, sometimes you would be obliged to look in four different places for it and then, perhaps, not find...
Nearly four thousand pamphlets from the Cornell library have been sent to England to be bound...
Trinity College, Dublin, has an annual income of over $250,000. Her fellowships are worth five and six thousand dollars a year; and the salary of her provost is about...
...persons with this education, that caused the founding of the many colleges in the West. These colleges are mostly frequented by farmers' sons, or others, who must struggle hard for the coveted prize of learning. To suppose that these men could afford to leave their homes and come a thousand miles to attend such universities as Harvard, or Yale, or Princeton; to suppose that men could do this, when they have an income of perhaps one or two hundred dollars, shows a lamentable lack of foresight. In many cases they are compelled to be within a few hours' ride from...
...reason for his resignation as he repeatedly gave it in public, was, that his salary was too small here, and that he was going where he could get ten thousand per year, - and yet, he has accepted the presidency of the Agricultural College - with no salary the first year, and agreeing to accept what is offered him after that; surely a strange proceeding in a money point of view. Various rumors were afloat at the time of his resignation. Some said that he had been asked to resign by the trustees, while the more general and well authenticated belief...