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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University of Missouri received an appropriation for a main building of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars from the state legislature...
...corporation of Yale purchased recently real estate valued at fifty thousand dollars...
...with carpentry and gardening, and in domesticating his famous hares. Slowly his faculties became composed, and at the age of fifty they were back with all their grace. He recommenced writing letters to his friends, and their publication has given to us some most beautiful English prose, in their thousand graces of style and meaning...
...while to notice so spiteful an attack if there not many others whose ignorance and narrowness are cropping out every once in a while in some such as way this. They read sensational headlines of what two or three men do, or perhaps even more, out of nearly three thousand. With an eagerness characteristic of the man expelled for riotous behavior, they snatch at the chance to give Harvard a vicious "dig." "Who goes to Harvard to pursue a course of study" they say and you can almost see them smile with satisfaction at the readiness of their...
...Twelve thousand dollars have been raised at Dartmouth, to support the different college athletic associations...